BI-RADS for Ultrasound
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) for Ultrasound (Based on the 5th Edition of ACR BI-RADS) The consistent use of BI-RADS descriptors…
Physics and Equipment Settings
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Ultrasound: Physics and Equipment Settings Breast ultrasound is a very important tool in diagnostic breast imaging. Understanding the physics of ultrasonography helps…
BI-RADS for Mammography
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) for Mammography (Based on the Fifth Edition of ACR BI-RADS) BI-RADS was conceived as a framework…
Healthcare Facility Disaster Management
Figure 22.1. The Four Phases of Comprehensive Emergency Management. The American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the AHA pioneered the development of hospital HVA in 2001. That same year, the…
Complex Public Health Emergencies
Figure 27.1. “Collateral damage” goes beyond injury and death. The fragile and superficially placed piping seen in the foreground was the main water artery to this village in Iraq. Public…
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication
Figure 25.1. Crisis Communication Life Cycle. Movement through the phases varies according to the triggering event. Not all crises are created equally. The degree or intensity and longevity of a…
Transportation Disasters
Figure 20.1. Concorde’s last flight in 2000. A piece of metal on the runway caused a tire explosion. Debris from the tire punctured the wing fuel tank and the fuel…
Biological Events
African horse sickness virusRicinAfrican swine fever virusRickettsia prowazekiiAkabane virusRickettsia rickettsiiAvian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)SaxitoxinBluetongue virus (exotic)Siiga-like ribosome inactivating proteinsBovine spongiform encephalopathy agentSouth American hemorrhagic fever virusesCamel pox virusFlexalClassical swine fever…
Earthquakes
Figure 38.1. Major World Faults. From: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/fig 37.gif. Courtesy of United States Geological Survey. Tectonic plates move in relation to one another in three specific patterns described as strike-slip, dip-slip,…
Extreme Heat Events
Figure 41.1. Annual Average Global Surface Temperature Anomalies in the United States, 1901–2010. Source: Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recenttc.html. Reviewed/modified by Tom Javorcic, 2013. Increasing global warming, urbanization, and population numbers…
