RT Book, Section
A1 Hendrickson, Robert G.
A1 Horowitz, B. Zane
A2 Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Yealy, Donald M.
A2 Meckler, Garth D.
A2 Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Thomas, Stephen H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1166526002
T1 Disaster Preparedness
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 9e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260019933
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166526002
RD 2024/04/24
AB Disasters  have  claimed  millions  of  lives  and  cost  billions  of  dollars  worldwide  in  the  past  few  decades.  Examples  of  large-scale  disasters  include  the  terrorist  attacks  of  September  11,  2001;  the  2004  Pacific  Ocean  tsunami;  the  2010  earthquake  in  Haiti;  the  2011  earthquake  and  tsunami  in  Japan;  the  2015  earthquake  in  Nepal;  Superstorm  Sandy  of  2012;  and  the  refugee  and  civil  war  crises  in  Africa.  Emergency  physicians  frequently  have  extensive  responsibilities  for  community  and  hospital-level  disaster  preparedness  and  response.  Planning  for  these  may  include  smaller-scale  disasters  such  as  active  shooters,  explosions,  building  fires,  or  transportation  accidents,  and  increased  patient  volume  from  predictable  events  (e.g.,  storms,  blizzards,  floods,  large  gatherings  for  major  sporting  events  or  music  festivals,  or  protests  of  large  scale  with  anticipated  violence).  This  chapter  discusses  the  definition  of  a  disaster,  disaster  preparedness  and  planning,  the  hospital  emergency  operations  plan,  field  disaster  response,  and  the  ED  disaster  response.