Essentials of Terror Medicine

Shmuel Shapira, Jeffrey Hammond, Leonard Cole

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English

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
10 December 2008

Accident & emergency medicine; Accident & emergency nursing; First aid & paramedical services

This edited collection brings together an international panel of experts to present the basics of terror medicine. The book opens with a discussion of the definition of terror medicine and makes a case for it as a vital and growing discipline. Key issues of training, response, and coordination are introduced and fully discussed. The text addresses questions about hospital preparedness, gives an overview of response strategies for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive events, and lays out strategies for coping with specific types of injury (multiple projectile, burns, crushing) as well as pediatric issues. The book also deals with the aftermath of the terrorist attack and offers commentary on forensics concerns, the psychological issues and community needs that might arise in the wake of an attack, and touches upon ethical issues the physician may encounter.

Edited by: Shmuel Shapira, Jeffrey Hammond, Leonard Cole
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2009 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.840kg
ISBN: 9780387094113
ISBN 10: 0387094113
Pages: 452
Publication Date: 10 December 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

to Terror Medicine.- Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.- Preparation and Response.- EMS and Pre-Hospital Issues.- Effects of Terrorism on the Healthcare Community.- Terror Medicine: Education and Training.- Modeling and Simulation in Terror Medicine.- National Coordination and Integration.- Response Planning.- Technology Opportunities and Challenges.- Weapon Etiologies.- Epidemiology of Terrorism Injuries.- Explosions and Blast Injury.- Biological Agents and Terror Medicine.- Chemical Agents and Terror Medicine.- Radiological Agents and Terror Medicine.- Cyber-Terrorism: Preparation and Response.- Types of Injury.- Penetrating Injury in Terror Attacks.- Orthopedic Injury in Urban Terrorism.- Terror-Inflicted Burn Injury.- Neurosurgical Injury Related to Terror.- Crush Injury, Crush Syndrome.- Maxillofacial Injury Related to Terror.- Pediatrics and Terrorism.- Aftermath and Ethical Considerations.- Forensic Investigation of Suicide Bombings.- Psychological Effects of Terror Attacks.- Ethics and Terror Medicine.

Reviews for Essentials of Terror Medicine

"From the reviews: ""An international group of authors present the basics of terror medicine. … Practitioners and trainees in emergency medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and other specialties treating trauma are an appropriate audience for this work … . Administrators with responsibility for acute care programs may also benefit from this background material. … I recommend this resource for practitioners and hospitals serving in the acute care safety net."" (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009) “The latest single source reference to address the multitude of issues that arise in our fairly elementary experience in disaster preparedness and response related to terrorist acts. … The challenge for readers … is the applicability of the lessons from countries where terrorism is a daily concern to a country in which even the memories of September 11 have dimmed. … Essentials of Terror Medicine does a nice job of consolidating and distilling important and practical information … with a truly qualified list of contributors.” (David V. Shatz, The Journal of TRAUMA, Vol. 67 (6), December, 2009)"