| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
a hands-on guide for medics |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
MathesonJames, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
HawleyAlan, |
| Place of Publication: |
London |
| Published: |
Hodder Arnold; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xxv, 310 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Making sense |
| Subject: |
Disaster medicine - |
| Subject: |
Emergency medicine - |
| Subject: |
Electronic books - |
| Online resource: |
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=n&CSC=Y&PAGE=booktext&D=books&AN=01438597/1st_Edition&XPATH=/PG(0) |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
The essential guide for all practising medical students and medics who may find themselves responding to incidents on the scale of the 7 July 2005 terrorist bomb blasts in London, and the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988 |
| ISBN: |
9781444128468electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1444128469electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Cover; Book title; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Contents; Introduction; 1 Disaster medicine: Evolution of a specialty; 2 The medical response to domestic terrorism and major incident management; 3 Managing national mass casualty incidents; 4 Classification of disasters; 5 Pre- and post-deployment; 6 Medicine in the field; 7 Surgery in disasters; 8 Psychological aspects of conflict and catastrophe; 9 Marginalized groups in disasters; 10 Healthcare in refugee populations; 11 The realities of war; 12 The hazards of the job; 13 The ethics of Disaster Medicine |