Disaster management; medical preparedness, response, and homeland security.

9781845939298

Disaster management; medical preparedness, response, and homeland security.

Ed. by Rajesh Arora and Preeti Arora.

CABI Publishing

2013

658 pages

$220.00

Hardcover

RA645

The two editors are based in India and have extensive credentials and experience in disaster management, including affiliations with relevant government agencies and NGOs. They provide a prologue offering a holistic view regarding managing the inevitable in both high-tech and resource-poor settings. Thirty-four chapters by contributors based worldwide address medical preparedness, communications, mass casualty incidents (site command and control), suicide bombing response, hospital triage, emergency decontamination in low-resource settings, radiological contaminants and medical management of exposed people, chemical and biological incidents, psychosocial aspects, and post-disaster relief. Distribution in the US is by Stylus Publishing.

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