RT Book, Section
A1 Hendrickson, Robert G.
A1 Horowitz, B. Zane
A2 Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2 Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Cline, David M.
A2 Cydulka, Rita K.
A2 Meckler, Garth D.
A2 , The American College of Emergency Physicians
SR Print(0)
ID 56343008
T1 Disaster Preparedness and Response
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-174467-6
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56343008
RD 2021/03/05
AB Disasters  have  claimed  millions  of  lives  and  cost  billions  of  dollars  worldwide  in  the  past  few  decades.  Examples  of  large-scale  disasters  include  the  terrorist  attacks  of  September  11,  2001;  the  2004  Pacific  Ocean  tsunami;  the  2010  earthquake  in  Haiti;  the  2011  earthquake  and  tsunami  in  Japan;  and  Superstorm  Sandy  of  2012.  Emergency  physicians  frequently  have  extensive  responsibilities  for  community  and  hospital-level  disaster  preparedness  and  response.  This  chapter  discusses  the  definition  of  a  disaster,  disaster  preparedness  and  planning,  the  hospital  emergency  operations  plan,  field  disaster  response,  and  the  ED  disaster  response.