Medical Response to Major Incidents and Disasters A Practical Guide
Disaster medicine is constantly gaining in importance owing to the impact of a variety of trends, including the rising global population, increased levels of travel, increasing production and transport of hazardous material, the development of global terr
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Sten Lennquist Editor
Medical Response to Major Incidents and Disasters A Practical Guide for All Medical Staff
Editor Sten Lennquist Ängslyckestigen 4 614 32 Söderköping Sweden [email protected]
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ISBN 978-3-642-21894-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21895-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21895-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940865 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publishers cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information about dosage and application contained in this book. In every individual case the user must check such information by consulting the relevant literature. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To all those who, with never-ending energy and enthusiasm, devote themselves to education and training of medical staff for the response to major incidents, including not only the challenge of performing effective and accurate training for this difficult task, but also the equally large challenge of getting decision makers on all levels to understand their responsibility to supply such training to staff of all categories – all for the benefit of the continuously increasing number of victims of such incidents.
Preface
It is today clear that the incidence of major incidents – situations where available resources are insufficient for the immediate need of medical care – has increased significantly parallel to the technical and economical development in the world. To maintain and continuously improve our standard of living requires continuous development of advanced technology, and the price we have to pay is the risks connected to this development. Our technical development has also generated changes in nature and climate, leading to an escalation of what have been called natural disasters, but which have been, to an increasing extent, caused by man. The increasing global population and the remaining, and in some areas even increasing, differences in the standard of living between poor and rich countries creates political tensions, leading to armed
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