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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453462103321

Titolo

Integrated emergency management for mass casualty emergencies : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Training Course on Integrated Emergency Management for Mass Casualty Emergencies organized by CESPRO, University of Florence, Italy / / edited by David Alexander, Emmanuela Masini, and Laura Mugnai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC : , : IOS Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61499-311-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Collana

NATO science for peace and security series - E: Human and societal dynamics ; ; volume 113

Altri autori (Persone)

AlexanderDavid

MasiniEmmanuela

MugnaiLaura

Disciplina

362.18

Soggetti

Disasters

Emergency management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""INTEGRATED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR MASS CASUALTY EMERGENCIES""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Perspectives on Integrated Emergency Response""; ""Hospital Response and Natural Disasters""; ""The Role of Hospitals in the International Disaster Response""; ""Optimal fluid administration in pre-hospital field""; ""Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents:  The Dual use of Field Hospitals. The Experience of the Italian Alpini Field Hospital during Disasters""; ""Integrated Response to CBRN Mass-Casualty Events""; ""Response To Nuclear Mass Casualty Events: The Nuclear Medical Approach""

""A novel approach to hospital evacuation: the role of trained medical students""""Emergency medical management at the Madrid train bombings1""; ""Emergency medical and public health responses to the 2005 London bombings""; ""Interactive Didactics: “Auxilium!�Simulation Game""; ""Subject Index""; ""Author Index""



Sommario/riassunto

Responses to major disasters tend to be complex, not merely because of the size and scale of operations and the number of countries and agencies involved, but also because of the range of functions represented by these organizations. A full-scale emergency response can involve people trained in at least 35 different disciplines and professions. This increasing sophistication of modern emergency response makes the process of coordination a particularly challenging one. It involves matching urgent needs with available resources in the most rapid and efficient way possible: timely mobilization an