Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Disaster Management: From Prehospital to Hospital Care and Beyond
In: Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma Ser.
Intro -- Foreword to the Series April 2019 -- Foreword by Bernd Domres and Norman Hecker -- Emergency and Disaster Medicine -- Medical Ethics -- Geneva Conventions -- Triage and Its Ethical Dimension -- Conscience as a Last Resort -- Foreword by Norman Rich -- Foreword by James Ryan -- Introduction to the Manual: The World in the Twenty-First Century -- Foreword by Eric Elster and Kyle Remick -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Prehospital Emergency Services -- 1: Principles of Disaster Medicine -- 1.1 What Is a Disaster? -- 1.2 Disaster Medicine: Evolving Medical Field -- 1.3 Public Health and Emergency Management Systems -- 1.4 Types of Disaster -- 1.5 Disaster Epidemiology -- 1.6 Risk, Hazard, Vulnerability: Main Terms and Definitions -- 1.7 Global Goals for Resilience in Disasters -- References -- 2: The Role of the First Responder -- 2.1 Scene Safety -- 2.2 On the Arrival -- 2.3 Secure the Staging Area -- 2.4 One-Way Entry -- 2.5 Stop the Killing in Mass Shooting Incident -- 2.6 Stop the Bleeding -- Bibliography -- 3: Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation, Pain Relief and Stabilization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Prehospital Stabilization -- 3.3 Fluid Resuscitation -- 3.4 Pain Therapy -- References -- 4: Resuscitation in Limited Resources Environments -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cardiac Arrest -- 4.3 Adult Basic Life Support (BLS) -- 4.4 Advanced Life Support -- 4.5 Monitoring During ALS -- 4.6 Post Cardiac Arrest Treatment -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Anesthesia for Critically Injured in Limited Resources Environments -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Regional Anesthesia Techniques -- 5.2.1 Rationale for Regional Anesthesia in Massive Disasters Trauma -- 5.2.2 RA Applications in Massive Disasters Trauma -- 5.2.2.1 Thoracoabdominal Trauma -- 5.2.2.2 Upper and Lower Extremities Trauma.