Abstract Disasters are inevitable. Health-care providers operating in disaster zones must make decisions that are unique and different from those encountered in their routine health-care work environment. Treatment decisions made…
Abstract The world’s most fragile states contain 38% of the world’s population and are among the world’s poorest. In these states up to 10% of all deaths and 20% of…
Abstract Field hospitals may be deployed within the borders of the jurisdiction of the care provider or, upon official request, within a different, often remote, jurisdiction such as during humanitarian…
Abstract This chapter describes the role of prehospital teams deployed to large scale disaster events. It describes two categories of type I emergency medical teams (EMT), and provides an overview…
Abstract Nurses routinely provide essential and integral core functions in the field hospital environment, such as daily operational service delivery planning and management, clinical governance and scope of practice supervision,…
Abstract The place of the critical care unit activation, within a field hospital, deployed to disaster area is challenged. Criteria used in the decision-making of activation are facility capabilities, combined…
Abstract Field hospitals can play a key role in the clinical treatment and public health management of infectious diseases during emergency situations, both in the setting of disasters primarily of…
Abstract Working in a field hospital after manmade or nature disasters is a demanding mission, known to cause various physical and mental bad outcomes, from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder….
Abstract Acute injuries contribute to significant morbidity in the immediate time following high magnitude earthquake. Illnesses resulting from poor shelter and lack of access to electricity, clean water, and sanitation…
Abstract The choice of the anesthetic technique in austere environments is dictated by the availability of medical personnel, electricity, oxygen, and supplies. TIVA appears to be a very promising, reliable…
