Making Sense of Disaster Medicine: A Hands-on Guide for Medics

by Hawley; Alan

• ISBN13: 9780340967560
• ISBN10: 0340967560
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-08-27
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Diaster medicine emcompasses the medical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air and road traffic accidents, domestic terrorism and pandemic outbacks, as well as the global issues of conflict and natural catastrophe. Where once this area was regarded as a niche interest of those wishing to carry out humanitarian assistance abroad, now it is to be a nationally-regulated field with intercollegiate support and a firm academic basis. Making Sense of Disaster Medicine is the first introductory text of its kind where leaders in the field of medicine; it provides essential reading for all medical students on the scale of the 7 July 2005 terrorist bomb blasts in London, or the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Author Biography

Dr James IDM Matheson MBBS, BA (Hons) is an Academic Foundation Doctor, Academic Foundation Programme, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Catastrophes Conflict Forum, Royal Society of Medicine, Faculty of Conflict Catastrophe Medicine, Society of Apothecaries of London, UK Professor Alan Hawley OBE QHP is Professor of Disaster Medicine, Professor of Disaster Studies and Director of the Disasters and Resilience Centre, University of Glamorgan, UK

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
Disaster medicine: Evolution of a specialty	p. 1
The medical response to domestic terrorism and major incident management	p. 38
Managing national mass casualty incidents	p. 62
Classification of disasters	p. 89
Pre- and post-deployment	p. 106
Medicine in the field	p. 125
Surgery in disasters	p. 158
Psychological aspects of conflict and catastrophe	p. 172
Marginalized groups in disasters	p. 191
Healthcare in refugee populations	p. 211
The realities of war	p. 234
The hazards of the job	p. 250
The ethics of Disaster Medicine	p. 268
Electives in the developing world	p. 287
Index	p. 303
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