BookHenri F. Julien, editor.
Summary: A very handy practical book written by French doctors specialised in disaster medicine, this guide offers their core experience condensed in 50 small, easily digestible chapters. Each chapter is designed to enable the reader to "know", "understand", and learn what to "do" in the concerned situation, ensuring the crucial information is easily on hand and available. Facing disasters, whether natural or man-made, technological or social, what are the risks and the consequences of such hazards on victims? What kind of care to provide? How to get organised, to have the appropriate resources, and to protect oneself as a responder? The French emergency and healthcare preparedness has followed a unique path. The responding medical doctors have followed in the footsteps of Dominique Larrey, a military surgeon and the father of emergency medicine. For him, the on-scene presence of doctors is paramount to organise the entire healthcare and emergency response, an innovative method that has proven its efficacy. This book is intended for all healthcare and emergency staff, doctors, paramedics or first aiders in ambulances or in emergency services who might come to deal with a massive influx of injured, poisoned, or traumatised victims. The management of multiple concomitant emergencies requires specific know-how and skills. May this guide contribute to the dissemination of a validated French know-how and thus to save lives and alleviate suffering.
Contents:
Part I. Introduction to Disaster Medicine
Disaster, Uncommon Health Crises, and Disaster Medicine
Ethics, Deontology in Disasters
Medico-Legal Issues
Doctors and Media in Disasters
Part II Organising Healthcare and Emergency Actions
ORSEC-NOVI Plan
Hospital Disaster Management Plan: Uncommon Health Crises (UHC)
Emergency Chain in Disaster Medicine
Medical Emergency Director (MED)
First Doctor on Disaster Scene
Role of the Medical Manager of Intra-Hospital Crisis
Triage of Disaster Medicine
Advanced Medical Posts (AMP)
Casualty Collection Point (CCP)
Rescue in Shooting and Hostages-Taking
Medical Coverage of Big Crowds
Part III Disastrous events
Destructive Earthquakes
Cyclones
Volcanic eruptions
Cold waves
Heat waves
Disasters and epidemics
Dwellings fires
Fire smoke inhalation
Explosions
Nuclear and radiological accidents
Traffic accidents involving many victims
Railway accidents
Warfare chemical agents
Forest fires
Part IV Techniques of Disaster Medicine
Principles of Field Medical Care
Medical Dispatch in Crises and Disasters
Crush Syndrome
Blast
Ballistic Wounds: Management Principles
Damage Control
Fluid Therapy in Disasters
Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Life-Saving Amputation
Disaster Situations and Psychological Impact
Reception of CoVID-19 Patients at the ER
Mass Casualty Decontamination
Emergency Dry Decontamination
Children and Disasters
Pharmaceutical Preparedness in Disaster Medicine
Antidotes for Chemical and Radiological Agents
Mobile Medical Post (MMP)
PPE of Health Staff
FMC, SINUS, and Patient Tracking in Disasters
Transmission in Disasters.