This text provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Encompassing problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters, the book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma, and the specia…
The second revised, expanded and updated edition of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Since the first edition was written in 2002, there have been seismic changes…
Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e follows its successful predecessors in providing a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Aimed at health professionals, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3…
Covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the problems of delivering medicine in hostile/remote environments. This book bridges the fields of medicine, nursing, politics and economics and also touches on nutrition, infect…
by Altevogt, Bruce M., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Davis, Miriam, (Medical writer), Snair, Megan Reeve, Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions (Workshop), Washington, D.C.)
The focus of Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions: Workshop Summary is on key response requirements faced by public health and health care systems in response to an IND detona…
by Altevogt, Bruce M., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Davis, Miriam, (Medical writer), Snair, Megan Reeve, Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions (Workshop), Washington, D.C.)
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Our nation faces the distinct possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack using an improvised nuclear device (IND), according to international and U.S. intelligence. Detonation of an IND in a major U.S. city would result in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of victim…
by Altevogt, Bruce M., Davis, Miriam, Institute of Medicine., Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Reeve, Megan, Institute of Medicine., Board on Health Sciences Policy
by National Center for Biotechnology Information (É.-U.), Altevogt, Bruce M., Institute of Medicine (États-Unis)., Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Davis, Miriam, (Rédacteur médical), Reeve, Megan, Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions (Atelier), Washington, D.C.)
The focus of Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack : Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions : Workshop Summary is on key response requirements faced by public health and health care systems in response to an IND deto…
Recounts the story of a handful of young doctors who experienced war, death, camaraderie, rivalries, romance, and moral decisions while trapped in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
Recounts the story of a handful of young doctors who experienced war, death, camaraderie, rivalries, romance, and moral decisions while trapped in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
