 Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM), now in its 24th volume, is published by the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. PDM is one of the leading scientific journals focusing on prehospital and disaster health. It is the only peer-reviewed international journal in its field, published bi-monthly, providing a readable, usable worldwide source of research and analysis. PDM is currently distributed in more than 55 countries. Its readership includes physicians, professors, EMTs and paramedics, nurses, emergency managers, disaster planners, hospital administrators, sociologists, and psychologists.
PDM's mission is the distribution of information relevant to the practice of out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care, disaster health, and public health and safety. PDM provides an international forum for the reporting and discussion of scientific studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that have relevance to the above practices. The major objectives are: 1) the improvement of the types and quality of the care delivered to patients with perceived medical emergencies and to victims of multicasualty accidents or disasters, including the public health and safety aspects of such events; and 2) the prevention and/or mitigation of the occurrence of such events and of the effects of these events upon the human population and environment.
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 Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style
Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style introduces a structural framework for investigations into the medical and public health aspects of disasters including: a standardized, universal set of definitions; a conceptual model for disasters; indicators and standards; descriptions of 14 basic societal functions bound together by a coordination and control function; and a disaster response template and two research templates. The templates are to be used in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of research and/or evaluations of interventions directed at preventing hazards from becoming a disaster-producing event, mitigating the of such an event on the affected society, and/or responses to a disaster.
Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style is able free of charge. All of the chapters are available as PDF files.
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 International Disaster Nursing
The effects of a disaster on health care can range from conditions that immediately besiege the system with large numbers of patients, to catastrophes that strain its long-term sustainability. Nurses as frontline health professionals, must have an understanding of the situations they may face before, during and after a disaster and they must develop the skills and strategies to provide effective and immediate care. International Disaster Nursing is the first truly comprehensive and internationally focused resource to address the diversity of issues and myriad scenarios that nurses and other health personnel, could encounter during a disaster event.
This text defines the many roles of the nurse within a multidisciplinary team, and aids the implementation of the community’s disaster plans in a crisis. International experts provide chapters on biological, chemical, natural, pandemic and explosive disasters. Others address disaster events and implications in the world’s poorer countries; populations with special needs; ethical issues; and conducting disaster research. Important features include chapter objectives, real-world vignettes, and extensive references. With an alarming increase in the occurrence of disasters in the last decade, International Disaster Nursing is the hallmark text in the field.
International Disaster Nursing is co-edited by WADEM members, Elaine Daily and Robert Powers with contributions from many members of the WADEM International Nursing Section. The book is being published by Cambrige University Press. It is currently in the production stages and is scheduled to be released in April 2010. |
SEARO-WADEM Tsumani Book
WADEM is working in collaboration with the World Health Organization South-East Asia Office on a book examining the health aspects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a disaster that took the lives of more than 200,000 people. The Indian Ocean tsunami resulted in mass casualties in six South-East Asia regional countries. The book, due to be released in 2010, will examine five of the hardest hit Southeast Asian regional countries (India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand) and determine how the impacts of the tsunami differed in each of these countries and why.
The SEARO-WADEM Tsumani Book is in the intital review stages. |
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