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.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors; Section 1. Introductory Chapters: 1. Introduction to simulation Cassandra Mackey and Jennifer Carey; 2. Disaster simulation: The best way to prepare for the worst David Ruby; 3. Simulation debriefing Jorge Yarzebski and Jordan Hitchens; Section 2. Geophysical Natural Disasters: Case 1. Options for delayed extraction following an earthquake Michael Weiner and C. Clare Charbonnet; Case 2. Covered in oil: HAZMAT injuries after a refinery collapse Liam Porter; Case 3. Crisis in Indonesia: Navigating volcanic eruptions, ash clouds, and lightning storm injuries Natalie Moore and Lauren Bacon; Case 4. Inhalational injuries after Mount Kilauea erupts Natalie Moore, Lauren Bacon and Andrew Milsten; Case 5. Emergency care in volcanic disasters: A case study of volcanic burn management after the Whakaari/White Island eruption Colleen M. Donovan, Emerson Franke, Paul Baker and Michelle B. Locke; Case 6. Tsunami survivor with fever and jaundice: Pediatric patient in a refugee clinic Alexander Hart; Case 7. Severe smoke inhalation and asthma exacerbation after a tsunami-induced fire Alexander Hart; Case 8. Tsunami-related pulmonary complications: Respiratory distress in an internally displaced person Jonathan Gammel; Section 3. Meteorological Natural Disasters: Case 9. Delayed blunt trauma sustained during debris removal after hurricane Morgan Ritz and Romeo Fairley; Case 10. Sheltering in the storm: Delayed extrication of an elderly man after a southern US hurricane Michael Weiner; Case 11. 'I Lost My Medications': Primary care interruption after a hurricane Liam Porter; Case 12. Tornado bloodbath: Addressing major trauma from a chainsaw complicated by anticoagulation in a rural emergency setting Ameer F. Ibrahim; Case 13. Tornado chasing gone wrong: Managing patients with impaled objects in the emergency department Ameer F. Ibrahim; Case 14. Tornado in the farmland: Multisystem trauma response in rural Alabama Guy Carmelli; Case 15. Stranded in the heat: Severe hyperthermia and multisystem organ failure Jonathan Gammel; Case 16. Out cold: Hypothermia from environmental exposure in a winter storm Daniel Saltzman; Case 17 An invisible killer: Carbon monoxide toxicity from gasoline generator use during a winter storm Daniel Saltzman; Section 4. Hydrological Natural Disasters: Case 18. Helping turns hazardous: Blunt trauma and respiratory distress during flash flood rescue Morgan Ritz and Romeo Fairley; Case 19. Trapped by the flood: Rescue of an elderly man after 24 hours Guy Carmelli; Case 20. Disaster strikes twice: Managing a dog bite injury in a posthurricane rescue Jennifer E. Geller and Colleen M. Donovan; Case 21. When rescuers become patients: A cold immersion injury scenario from the DMAT field hospital Colleen M. Donovan and Lekha Reddy; Section 5. Climatological Natural Disasters: Case 22. Wildfire chaos: A case of trauma and smoke inhalation from late evacuation Jonathan Gammel; Section 6. Biological Natural Disasters: Case 23. Critical management of Ebola virus disease in the emergency department Matthew Carlisle; Case 24. From cabin cleanup to critical care: Managing hantavirus infection Matthew Carlisle; Case 25. Medical response in crisis: Pediatric diarrhea and shock in refugee camps Matthew A. Tovar and James P. Phillips; Case 26. Resource management during a pandemic surge in a small hospital Christopher Hayden; Section 7. Technological Disasters: Case 27. Medical management of chlorine gas exposure following a freight train derailment Colleen M. Donovan, Mary G. Mcgoldrick and Denise Fernandez; Case 28. Treating life-threatening injuries with limited resources while at sea Cody Johnson; Case 29. Outbreak at sea: Managing acute gastroenteritis on a cruise ship Cody Johnson; Case 30. Illness on the high seas: Navigating a gastrointestinal outbreak 50 miles from shore Rashed Al Remeithi and Nata
