Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine

by Robert A. Partridge

2020-07-26 01:34:24

Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols. Consequently, combining academic approaches with realist... Read more
Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols. Consequently, combining academic approaches with realistic and practical recommendations continuesto be an underdeveloped aspect of disaster texts. The Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine offers a functional blend of science with pragmatism.Approached from a real-world perspective, the handbook is a portable guide that provides sufficient scientific background to facilitate broader application and problem solving yet approach the topic in a prioritized fashion, supporting rapid understanding and utilization. Contributing authors areclinical and public health providers with disaster experience. This book encompasses the entire scope of disaster medicine from general concepts and fundamental principles to both manmade and natural threats. Less

Book Details

File size6.9x4.3x1.8inches
Print pages864
PublisherOxford University Press, USA
Publication date April 1, 2012
Languageeng
ISBN9780195379068
Robert A. Partridge, MD, MPH, FACEP, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts; Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital; Adjunct Associate Professor ...

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