Full Description
Bring life to your curriculum with this comprehensive, yet versatile book that explores core disaster medicine principles through vivid emergency medicine cases. Each case has been crafted to suit a wide range of learners-from novice to practitioner. The ready-to-teach cases are scalable and customizable to any learning environment, from low-resource teaching settings to high-fidelity simulation labs. Covering the basics of simulation to advanced disaster response strategies, cases cover natural and human-made disasters, including pandemics, building collapses, mass gathering medicine and blast injuries, providing hands-on learning opportunities that can be used to enhance understanding and retention. Each case follows a standard structure including teaching objectives, discussion points, a timeline and critical actions. With a mix of scenarios and flexible application, this resource will ensure every learner is prepared with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate complexities associated with real-world emergencies while learning core disaster medicine principles.
Contents
Part I. Introductory Chapters; Part II. Geophysical Natural Disasters; Part III. Meteorological Natural Disasters; Part IV. Hydrological Natural Disasters; Part V. Climatological Natural Disasters; Part VI. Biological Natural Disasters; Part VII. Technological Disasters; Part VIII. Terrorism-Related Disasters; Part IX. Mass Casualty Incident.
