INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In the decade following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans have become more accustomed to the threat of terrorist attacks by weapons of mass destruction…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter will discuss the issue of disaster response by local, state, regional, municipal, and tribal authorities. Additionally, the issue of federal participation and the factors…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The current Incident Command System developed out of difficulties faced by firefighters four decades ago. During the 1970s, a series of forest fires ravaged southern California…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Although many definitions of wilderness medicine have been suggested, one of the most used definitions derives from transport time, and is usually described as longer than…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen A mass casualty incident (MCI) is an event that produces or has the potential to produce multiple casualties requiring medical care. The goal of prehospital care…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Firefighters tackle a wide variety of challenging operational scenarios and suffer significant stress and physiological demands during the discharge of their duties.1 Because the majority of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The operational environment of commercial travel can be as challenging as any other for the EMS physician to provide quality emergency medical care. As an aging…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Tactical emergency medical support, or TEMS, was patterned after the successful military model of specially trained medics embedded within remotely deployed fighting units. While the military…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Emergency medicine service (EMS) personnel have opportunities to deploy in a variety of settings from urban international disaster response to sustained humanitarian missions for developing areas…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Mass gathering medical care generally refers to the organized care provided for groups of at least 1000 people, including both spectators and participants, although some authors…
