He found himself in the basement of one of the city's most famous theatres, the Comedie Francaise, which had been turned into an emergency operating room.
The team's spinal specialist, Dr. Andrew Cappuccino, sent saline into Everett's veins in the ambulance, continued treatment in the emergency and operating rooms and installed a system in the ICU which maintained his temperature for the next 48 hours.
In Washington, a U.S. defense official said the U.S. Navy will contribute two high-tech acoustic devices to listen for emergency beacons still operating in deep water.
Several countries also conducted national exercises involving key emergency response agencies, with many conducting tabletop or functional exercises to test their tsunami warning and emergency response Standard Operating Procedures.
Four train companies - Thameslink, Thames, Silverlink and WAGN - are operating to emergency timetables.
"The entire process is quite involved, given that there are more than 3, 100 passengers and nearly 1, 100 crew, and this is compounded by the ship only operating on emergency power, " he said.
That determination defies logic and the law, but was a necessary fiction for the agency to continue operating under limited emergency powers that such a finding invokes.
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Weather is inherently uncontrollable and difficult to predict, notes Dirnagl, but it is part and parcel of operating in the air emergency transport business.
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The NRC has stood up its Maryland-based headquarters Operations Center since the beginning of the emergency in Japan, and is operating on a 24-hour basis.
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Each unit can also serve as a source of electrical power for the military, or emergency response, something always in short supply in forward operating positions.
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Patients at the hospital were briefly moved to higher ground, but they were soon brought back and the hospital is operating, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said.
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At the trust's Royal Lancaster Hospital, a mobile operating theatre has been opened to provide extra emergency patient beds and a refurbishment of the emergency department is under way.
As an emergency precaution, the Federal Aviation Administration has now said that carriers operating 737s with the same lap-joint design along the roof should inspect the planes after no more than 30, 000 cycles.
Those operating reactors with lower risks of flooding or earthquake, better emergency cooling systems and more robust power supplies might see themselves as having little to learn from it.
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