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When an ED is forced to close due to a disaster and requests delivery of a mobile unit called the Carolinas Mobile Emergency Department-1 (MED-1), "we like to think we can be mobile in 72 hours," says Tom Blackwell, MD, medical director for the Center for Pre-Hospital Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, and one of the two physicians who spearheaded the development of the mobile unit.

Mobile unit can be available quickly