Tabla de Contenidos:
  • HANDBOOK FOR PANDEMIC AND MASS-CASUALTY PLANNING AND RESPONSE; Dedication; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Preface; Contents; Section 1: The Context of Catastrophic Health Planning; Medical Response to Major Incidents: A Standardized Postgraduate Course in Management and Performance in Major Incidents & Disasters; Development of a European Training Curriculum for International Crisis Management (DITAC/European Research Project):One European Training Curriculum for Each Disaster-Necessary or Impossible?; Pandemic Planning & Response
  • Mass-Casualty Preparedness-How to Upgrade From Below: Our Experiences in SloveniaEducation and Training for Major Incidents and Disasters: Croatia Case Study; Cross-Disciplinary Competency and Professionalization in Disaster Medicine and Public Health; Complex Humanitarian Emergencies-An Overview: Controversies and Future Perspectives; The Hospital as the Weakest Link in Mass-Casualty Incidents; Ethics and Medicine in Disasters and Mass-Casualty Incidents; Croatia's State and Medical Authority for Health System Organizations; Croatia: Community, Empowerment, Resiliency
  • Section 2: Principles of Response to Catastrophes with Mass CasualtiesBasics of Terror Medicine; Mass-Casualty Planning and Response; Interoperability within Military Medical Forces in Contemporary NATO Operations; The Complete Protection of a Combat Soldier; Experience from Past Conflicts; Triage Protocols for Critical-Care Patients in Disaster Conditions; Development of Standards of Care for Polytrauma in Multiple-Casualty Incidents; Treatment Algorithms and Hospital Triage in Mass-Casualty Incidents; Guidelines for Limb Amputation and Reconstruction in Mass-Casualty Incidents
  • Burn Injuries during Mass-Casualty IncidentsBlast Injuries; Section 3: Communication and Information Sharing; Information Sharing in Practice and for Practice: Mass-Casualty Cases; Communication between Emergency Medical Services and Media during Mass-Casualty Events in Croatia; Just-in-Time Information; Collaboration Topologies for Interdisciplinary and Interlevel Information Exchange; Networks and Their Role in Counteracting Contemporary Global Threats: A New Model; Architecture of R & D Project Management Systems at Medical Institutions; Lessons Learned; Lessons Learned; Subject Index