Disaster Medicine Pocket Guide: 50 Essential Questions

Part I. Introduction to disaster medicine.- Chapter 1. Disaster, uncommon health crises, and disaster medicine.- Chapter 2. Ethics, deontology in disasters.- Chapter 3. Medico-legal issues.-Chapter 4. Doctors and media in disasters.- Part II. Organising Healthcare and emergency actions.- Chapter 5. ORSEC-NOVI plan.- Chapter 6. Contingency plan, uncommon health crises (UHC).- Chapter 7. Emergency chain in disaster medicine.- Chapter 8. Medical Emergency Director (MED).- Chapter 9. First doctor on disaster scene.- Chapter 10. Role of the medical manager of intra-hospital crisis.- Chapter 11. Triage of disaster medicine.- Chapter 12. Advanced medical posts (AMP).- Chapter 13. Casualty collection point (CCP).- Chapter 14. Rescue in shooting and hostages-taking.- Chapter 15. Medical coverage of big crowds.- Part III. Disastrous events.- Chapter 16. Destructive earthquakes.- Chapter 17. Cyclones.- Chapter 18. Volcanic eruptions.- Chapter 19. Cold waves.- Chapter 20. Heat waves.- Chapter 21. Disasters and epidemics.- Chapter 22. Dwellings fires.- Chapter 23. Fire smoke inhalation.- Chapter 24. Explosions.- Chapter 25. Nuclear and radiological accidents.- Chapter 26. Traffic accidents involving many victims.- Chapter 27. Railway accidents.- Chapter 28. Warfare chemical agents.- Chapter 29. Forest fires.- Part IV Techniques of disaster medicine.- Chapter 30. Principles of field medical care.- Chapter 31. Medical dispatch in crises and disasters.- Chapter 32. Crush syndrome.- Chapter 33. Blast.- Chapter 34. Ballistic wounds: management principles.- Chapter 35. Damage control.- Chapter 36. Fluid therapy in disasters.- Chapter 37. Procedural sedation and analgesia.- Chapter 38. Search and rescue (SAR).- Chapter 39. Life-saving amputation.- Chapter 40. Disaster situations and psychological impact.- Chapter 41. Reception of CoVID-19 patients at the ER.- Chapter 42. Mass casualty decontamination.- Chapter 43. Emergency dry decontamination.- Chapter 44. Children and disasters.- Chapter 45. Pharmaceutical preparedness in disaster medicine.- Chapter 46. Antidotes for chemical and radiological agents.- Chapter 47. Mobile medical post (MMP).- Chapter 48. PPE of health staff.- Chapter 49. FMC, SINUS, and patient tracking in disasters.- Chapter 50. Transmission in disasters