Disaster medicine /
While medical specialists in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and response are needed worldwide, the initial phase of disaster response is almost entirely dependent upon local resources--making it essential that all healthcare personnel have a working knowledge of the field and stand ready to inte...
| Uniform Title: | Disaster medicine (Ciottone) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Elsevier,
[2024]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to disaster medicine
- Public health and disasters
- Role of emergency medical services in disaster management and preparedness
- Role of emergency medicine in disaster management
- Pandemic preparedness and response
- Health in complex emergencies
- Disaster medicine in changing climate
- Children in disaster
- Psychological effects of disaster on displaced populations and refugees of multiple traumas
- Ethical issues in disaster medicine
- Issues of liability in emergency response
- Disaster response in the United States
- Disaster response in Europe
- Disaster response in Asia
- Building local capacity and disaster resiliency
- Local disaster capacity and disaster resiliency
- Local disaster response in the United States
- State disaster response: systems and programs
- Selected U.S. Federal disaster response agencies and capabilities
- Global disaster response and emergency medical teams
- Civil-military coordination in disaster response
- Evaluation of emerging data to inform disaster response
- Disaster and emergency management programs
- Emergency departement design
- Hazard vulnerability analysis
- Public information management
- Informatics and information technology in disaster medicine
- Medical simulation in disaster preparedness
- Disaster mitigation
- Disaster risk management
- Vaccines
- Occupational and environmental medicine: an asset in time of crisis
- Worker health and safety in disaster response
- Disaster preparedness
- Policy issues in disaster preparedness and response
- Mutual aid
- Disaster nursing
- Patient surge
- Accidental versus intentional event
- Crisis meta-leadership and the practice of disaster medicine
- The incident command system
- Scene safety and situational awareness in disaster response
- Predisaster and postdisaster needes assessment
- Operations and logistics
- Disaster communications
- Mobile disaster applications
- The role of social media in disasters
- Volunteers and donations
- Personal protective equipment
- Role of bystanders in disasters
- Disaster surveillance systems
- Use of geographical information systems in crises
- Management of mass fatalities
- Disaster management of animals
- Urban search and rescue
- Triage
- Patient tracking systems in disasters
- Mass gatherings
- Infectious disease in a disaster zone
- Pharmaceuticals and medical equipment in disasters
- Displaced populations
- Palliative care in disasters
- Rehabilitation and reconstruction
- Disaster education and research
- Practical applications of disaster epidemiology
- Measures of effectiveness in disaster management
- Counter-terrorism medicine
- The psychology of terrorism
- Thinking outside the box: health service support considerations in the era of asymmetrical threats
- Integrated response to terrorist attacks
- Coordinated attack
- Active-shooter response
- Hostage taking
- Civil unrest and rioting
- Introduction to explosions and blasts
- Suicide bomber
- Improvised explosive devices
- Conventional explosions at mass gatherings
- Nuclear and radiation disaster management
- Dirty bomb (radiological disperal device)
- General approach to chemical attack
- Biological attack
- Future biological and chemical weapons
- Directed-energy weapons
- Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear quarantine
- Decontamination: chemica and radiation
- Military lessons learned for disaster response
- Integration of law enforcement and military resources with the emergency response to a terrorist incident
- Tactical emergency medical support
- Operational rescue
- Operations security, site security, and incident response
- Medical intelligence
- Dignitary protective medicne
- Introduction to natural disasters
- Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons
- Earthquakes
- Tornadoes
- Floods
- Tsunamis
- Heat wave
- Winter storm
- Volcanic eruption
- Famine
- Landslides
- Avalanche
- Introduction to nuclear and radiological disasters
- Nuclear detonation
- Radiation accident-isolated and dispersed exposure
- Nuclear power plant meltdown
- Introduction to chemical disasters
- Industrial -chemical disasters
- Nerve-agent mass casualty incidents
- Vesicant agent attack
- Respiratry-agent mass casualty incident (toxic inhalational injury)
- Asphyxiant (cyanide) attack
- Antimuscarinic agent attack
- Mass casualty incidents from hallucinogenic agents: LSD, other idoles, and phenylethylamine derivatives
- Opioid agent attack
- Caustic agent mass casualty incident, with special emphasis on hydrogen fluoride (HF)
- Mass casualties from crowd-control agents
- Cholinergic agent attack (nicotine, epibtidine, and anatoxin-a)
- Anesthetic-agent mass casualty incident
- Introduction to biological agents
- Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) attack
- Yersinia pestis (plague) bioterrorism attack
- Francisella tularensis (Tularemia) attack
- Brucella species (Brucellosis) attack
- Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) attack
- Rickettsia prowazekii attack (Typhus fever)
- Orientia tsutsgamushi (scrub typhus) attack
- Rickettsia rickettsii (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever) attack
- Vibrio cholera (cholera) attack
- Shigella dysenteriae (Shigelosis) attack
- Salmonella (salmonellosis and typhoid fever)
- Burkholderia (glanders and melioidosis) attack
- Chlamydophila psittaci (psittacosis) attack
- Escherichia coli 0157:H7 (Enterohemorrhagic E. coli)
- Viral encephalitis caused by alphaviruses
- Tick-borne encephalitis virus attack
- Viral hemorrhagic fever attack
- Variola major virus (smallpox) attack
- Influenza virus attack
- Monkeypox attack
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome attack
- SARS-CoV (COVID-19 and SARS)
- Staphylococcal enterotoxin B attack
- Clostridium botulinum toxin (botulism) attack
- Clostridium perfringens toxin (epsilon toxin) attack
- Marine toxin attack
- T-2 toxin (trichothecene mycotoxins) attack
- Ricin toxin from ricinus communis (castor bean)
- Aflatoxin (aspergillus species) attack
- Coccidioides immitis (coccidioidomycosis) attack
- Histoplasma capsulatum (histoplasmosis) attack
- Cryptosporidium parvum (cryptosporidiosis) attack
- Explosions: fireworks
- Rocket-propelled grenade attack
- Conventional explostion at a hospital
- Conventional explosion in a high-rise building
- Conventional explosion at a nuclear power plant
- Tunnel explosion
- Liquefied natural gas explosion
- Liquefied natural gas tanker truck explosion
- Petroleum distillation and processing facility explosion
- Introduction to fires and burns
- Structure fires
- Wildland fires and the wildland-urban interface
- Tunnel fire
- Gunshot attack: mass casualties
- Sniper attack
- Introduction to structural collapse (crush injury and crush syndrome)
- Train derailment
- Subway derailment
- Bus accidents
- Aircraft crash preparedness and response
- Air show disaster
- Asteroid impacts, orbital debris, and spacecraft reentry disasters
- Building collapse
- Bridge collapse
- Human stampede
- Mining accident
- Submarine or surface vessel accident
- Aircraft hijacking
- Aircraft crash into a high-rise building
- Maritime disasters
- Cruise ship infectious disease outbreak
- Massive power system failures
- Hospital power outages
- Intentional contamination of water supplies
- Food supply contamination
- Ecological terrorism
- Computer and electronic terrorism and emergency medical services
- Disasters in space travel: from earth to orbit, and beyond.