Disaster medical response has historically focused on the pre-hospital and initial treatment
needs of casualties. In particular, the critical care component of many disaster response …

Background Plausible disasters may yield hundreds or thousands of critically ill victims.
However, most countries, including those with widely available critical care services, lack …

Objective: Recent natural disasters have highlighted shortfall areas in current hospital
disaster preparedness. These include the following: 1) insufficient coordination between …

In the twentieth century, rarely have mass casualty events yielded hundreds or thousands of
critically ill patients requiring definitive critical care. However, future catastrophic natural …

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. International Disaster Health Care:
Preparedness, Response, Resource Management, and Education provides a complete …

California Department of Public Health; University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Background: When healthcare demand exceeds resources during catastrophic disasters …

Disasters come in all shapes and forms, and in varying magnitudes and intensities.
Nevertheless, they offer many of the same lessons for critical care practitioners and …

Background Mass numbers of critically ill disaster victims will stress the abilities of health-
care systems to maintain usual critical care services for all in need. To enhance the number …

Disclosures: T. Hossain, JR Dichter, and M. Ghazipura have no financial conflicts of interest
to disclose regarding this article. T. Hossain and JR Dichter are members of the Task Force …

Well developed disaster plans are essential in today's atmosphere of natural and man-made
disasters. We describe the problems faced by a community hospital on the Mississippi Gulf …