Handbook for pandemic and mass-casualty planning and response / / edited by Elin Gursky and Boris Hreckovski

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.2; 616.2/05
• Soggetto topico: Disaster medicine - Planning; Emergency management - Planning; Epidemics
• Altri autori: GurskyElin A HreckovskiBorsi
• Note generali: "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Applying Lessons Learned and Sharing Best Practices in Addressing Pandemics and Catastrophic Health Eventa, Slavonski Brod, Croatia, 27 November - 8 December 2011."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: HANDBOOK FOR PANDEMIC AND MASS-CASUALTY PLANNING AND RESPONSE; Dedication; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Preface; Contents; Section 1: The Context of Catastrophic Health Planning; Medical Response to Major Incidents: A Standardized Postgraduate Course in Management and Performance in Major Incidents & Disasters; Development of a European Training Curriculum for International Crisis Management (DITAC/European Research Project):One European Training Curriculum for Each Disaster-Necessary or Impossible?; Pandemic Planning & Response ; Mass-Casualty Preparedness-How to Upgrade From Below: Our Experiences in SloveniaEducation and Training for Major Incidents and Disasters: Croatia Case Study; Cross-Disciplinary Competency and Professionalization in Disaster Medicine and Public Health; Complex Humanitarian Emergencies-An Overview: Controversies and Future Perspectives; The Hospital as the Weakest Link in Mass-Casualty Incidents; Ethics and Medicine in Disasters and Mass-Casualty Incidents; Croatia's State and Medical Authority for Health System Organizations; Croatia: Community, Empowerment, Resiliency ; Section 2: Principles of Response to Catastrophes with Mass CasualtiesBasics of Terror Medicine; Mass-Casualty Planning and Response; Interoperability within Military Medical Forces in Contemporary NATO Operations; The Complete Protection of a Combat Soldier; Experience from Past Conflicts; Triage Protocols for Critical-Care Patients in Disaster Conditions; Development of Standards of Care for Polytrauma in Multiple-Casualty Incidents; Treatment Algorithms and Hospital Triage in Mass-Casualty Incidents; Guidelines for Limb Amputation and Reconstruction in Mass-Casualty Incidents ; Burn Injuries during Mass-Casualty IncidentsBlast Injuries; Section 3: Communication and Information Sharing; Information Sharing in Practice and for Practice: Mass-Casualty Cases; Communication between Emergency Medical Services and Media during Mass-Casualty Events in Croatia; Just-in-Time Information; Collaboration Topologies for Interdisciplinary and Interlevel Information Exchange; Networks and Their Role in Counteracting Contemporary Global Threats: A New Model; Architecture of R&D Project Management Systems at Medical Institutions; Lessons Learned; Lessons Learned; Subject Index ; Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Handbook for Pandemic and Mass-Casualty Planning and Response offers the disaster medicine professional community the information and tools to better prepare, individually and collaboratively, to mitigate mortality and morbidity when catastrophe occurs. It captures the lectures and teachings of an extraordinary 12 day NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Croatia in late 2011: 'Applying lessons learned and sharing best practices in addressing pandemics and catastrophic health events.' The results of this event, held under the auspices of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, are presented in three sections: The Context of Catastrophic Health Planning; Principles of Response to Catastrophes with Mass Casualties; and Communication and Information Sharing. The handbook presents rigorous, standardized cross-disciplinary training, such as Medical Response to Major Incidents; the need to guide medical and humanitarian efforts by ethical principles; the importance of risk communication and trustworthy information; treatment guidelines along with medical and surgical practices for amputation, burns, and blast injuries; triage guidelines and treatment algorithms; principles of mass-casualty planning; and the need to identify and correctly position -in advance- the networks and collaborative structures that must work together and share capabilities. Drawing on experts from Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the Russian Federation, Italy, Spain, Mexico and the United States - and especially on Croatia's experience handling mass casualties during its Homeland War in the 1990s - this handbook combines research and real-world examples to assist the disaster response community in preparing for mass-casualty incidents.
• Titolo autorizzato: Handbook for pandemic and mass-casualty planning and response
• ISBN: 1-299-33334-6; 1-61499-135-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826561903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: NATO Science for Peace and Security series. : E, . -Human and Societal Dynamics ; ; v. 100.