Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities
The text is geared towards health care workers such as adult and pediatric physicians and nurses, paramedics and health care facility administrators and covers disaster preparedness for health care facilities such as hospitals and long-term care homes.
The content of the book addresses preparedness for disasters, both natural and man-made, from the standpoint of health care facility pre-planning preparedness to managing and overcoming disasters when they occur. Beginning with how to assess the risk to and readiness of your health care facility for potential disasters, the book progresses to how to deal with any readiness deficiencies found. Each chapter can be a standalone document addressing an individual aspect of disaster preparedness but when all chapters are combined, it creates a complete and authoritative guide on all aspects of disaster preparedness. Academic review of the contents was done by international leaders in the disaster preparedness field (from the United States, UK and Israel)
This book is the only product of its kind that centralizes all of the content required for a health care facility to plan, prepare and manage disaster related events.
i. Foreward
1. Introduction to Disaster and Disaster Planning
2. Risk and Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
3a. Readiness and Mitigation - General planning and readiness
3b. Readiness and Mitigation - CBRNE checklist
IMS Appendix A Incident action plan
IMS Appendix B Command contact list
5. Triage
6. Hospital Emergency Surge Capacity
7. Volunteers
Volunteer management appendices
8. Preparing for Mass Gatherings
9. Scene Safety
10. Analgesia and Mass Casualty Incidents
11. Infectious Diseases Following Disasters
12. Disasters with Contaminations
Disasters with contamination appendices
16. Psycho-social Issues in Disasters
17. Ethics
Reviews
This book's greatest strength is its very focused content. This book definitely fills the niche of disaster preparedness that is related to healthcare facilities.
Michael Zwank, MD, RDMS, FACEP (University of Minnesota Medical School)