Surgery during natural disasters, combat, terrorist attacks, and crisis situations. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: COL Robert B. Lim, editor.
• Editors: Lim, Robert B
• Contents: Disaster Medicine: Lessons Learned from the Crash of Asiana Airlines Flight -- Disaster Preparedness -- Trauma Surgery in an Austere Environment: Trauma and Emergency Surgery in Unusual -- Difficult Triage Decisions in the Combat or Austere -- Removal of Unexploded -- Hostage Rescue -- Awake Tracheostomy in an Austere -- Pediatric Emergencies in the Combat or Austere Environment: As Easy as A, B, C -- The Oklahoma City -- The Experience of Disaster Response in Sri Lanka: From Reaction to Planning -- A Surgical Response to the Haiti Earthquake -- Surgery on Public Enemy #1 -- Lessons Learned in Combat Burn -- Operating in a Tent -- Dismounted Complex Blast -- Surgery Under Fire -- Lessons Learned From the Boston Marathon Bombing -- Chemical Warfare: A Brief History and Summary of Current Threats and Initial Management -- Providing Surgical Training and Assistance in a Developing Country during Military Assistance -- Use What You?ve Got: Resource Utilization in a Mass Casualty in Afghanistan.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 617; Medicine; Surgical emergencies; Disaster medicine; Surgery, Military; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General; Disaster medicine; Surgery, Military; Surgical emergencies; Emergencies; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Emergency Medical Services; Surgery; General surgery; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319237183; 3319237187
• Related ISBNs: 3319237179; 9783319237176
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 14, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.