Conflict and catastrophe medicine : a practical guide

This text provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Encompassing problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters, the book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma, and the special problems of delivering medicine in a hostile environment.

• Section 1 Introduction: Players and Paradigms
• 1 Baghdad Christmas p. 3 David R. Steinbruner
• 2 New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/11 p. 5 James M. Ryan
• 3 The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us p. 13 David R. Steinbruner
• 4 The Spectrum of Conflict p. 17 Alan Hawley
• 5 The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies
• A Humanitarian Organizations and Their Coordination in Humanitarian Assistance p. 31 M. Kett and A. van Tulleken
• B Military Medical Assistance to Civilian Health Sectors p. 49 Martin C.M. Bricknell
• C Private Security Companies and First-Line Care p. 61 T. Spicer and K. Morland
• D Oil and Gas: Industry in Remote and Volatile Areas p. 70 Bob Mark
• 6 Interfaces
• A Medical Ethics Is Never Easy p. 75 David R. Steinbruner
• B Village Medical Outreach or Medcap: A Policy Perspective p. 77 Martin C.M. Bricknell and Robin Cordell and David C. Mcloughlin
• 7 Conflict and the Media p. 89 Daloni A. Carlisle
• 8 Remote Medicine p. 101 Steven A. Bland
• A Medicine at the Ends of the Earth: The Antarctic p. 107 Iain C. Grant
• B High Altitude p. 114 Sundeep Dhillon
• Section 2 Disasters, Public Health, and Populations
• 9 Disasters: An Overview p. 125 Tony Redmond
• A The London Bombings 7th July 2005: Forward Medical Response p. 143 Steven A. Bland
• 10 Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention p. 151 Aroop Mozumder
• 11 The Military Approach to Medical Planning p. 177 Martin C.M. Bricknell
• 12 Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool p. 189 Martin C.M. Bricknell and Gareth Moore
• 13 Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters p. 197 Tim Healing
• A Introduction p. 197
• B Health Surveillance p. 199
• 14 Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis p. 223 Alan Hawley
• 15 Health Planning in Action "Operation Phoenix": A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo p. 241 Tony Redmond and John F. Navein
• 16 Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees Maarten Hoejenbos and Adriaan Hopperus Buma p. 251
• 17 Populations and People p. 261 David R. Steinbruner
• Section 3 Introduction: Living and Working
• 18 Getting There and Being Involved
• A Hello Folks p. 267 David R. Steinbruner
• B Getting Involved p. 268 Steve Mannion
• C "R and R": Moving Between Worlds p. 281 David R. Steinbruner
• D Team Building and Maintenance p. 284 Kenneth I. Roberts
• 19 Safety and Security
• A Staying Safe and Effective: In a Humanitarian Context (Or as Safe as Is Reasonably Possible When You Know You Should Have Stayed at Home!!!) p. 287 Garry M. Vardon-Smith
• B Thinking Ballistic: Aspects of Protection p. 300 Kenneth I. Roberts
• C Mines and Weapons Awareness p. 303 Kenneth I. Roberts
• D The Oil Camp p. 306 Bob Mark
• 20 Voices from the Field
• A Just a Word About Toilets p. 315 David R. Steinbruner
• B Conflict Medicine: A View from the Ground p. 317 Luke J. Staveley-Wadham
• 21 Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine p. 323 John F. Navein and Simon J. O'Neill
• 22 Mental Health
• A Practical Psychological Aspects of Humanitarian Aid p. 345 Ian P. Palmer
• B Psychosocial Resilience and Distress in the Face of Adversity, Conflict, Terrorism, or Catastrophe p. 360 Richard Williams and David Alexander
• C Requiem: Going Home p. 374 David R. Steinbruner
• Section 4 Introduction: Hospitals and Health Systems
• 23 Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition p. 379 James M. Ryan
• 24 Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals p. 391 Pristina Tony Redmond
• 25 Conflict Surgery: A Personal View p. 393 Andrew Bruce
• 26 Military Health Services Support in Conflict p. 397 Martin C.M. Bricknell and Roderick J. Heatlie
• 27 Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform p. 405 Martin C.M. Bricknell and D.F. Thompson
• 28 Hospital Blues p. 413 David R. Steinbruner
• Section 5 Introduction: Clinical Care
• 29 Trauma and Surgery
• A Introduction: Scene-Setting p. 417 Walter Henny and Adriaan Hopperus Buma
• B Trauma and Triage p. 418 Walter Henny and Adriaan Hopperus Buma
• C Soft Tissues and Skeleton p. 428 Ralph de Wit and James M. Ryan
• D Ballistics and Blast p. 438 Ralph de Wit and David G. Burris
• E Abdominal Complaints and Acute Surgical Emergencies p. 446 Walter Henny and Adam Brooks
• F Maxillofacial, Eye, and ENT p. 462 Jan Roodenburg and Peter Dyer
• G Head Injury p. 471 Andrew Maas and Walter Henny
• H Anaesthesia and Analgesia p. 478 Chris Bleeker
• 30 Acute Medical Problems p. 493 David G. Burris and Manolis Gavalas and Claire Walford and Shautek Nazeer
• 31 Women's Health p. 527 Charles Cox and Hervinder Kaur
• 32 Children's Health p. 541 M. Gavalas and S. Nazeer and Claire Walford and A. Christodoulides
• 33 Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences for Children p. 553 Richard Williams and David Alexander
• Section 6 Introduction: Resources
• 34 Materials and Information p. 571 James I.D.M. Matheson and Adriaan Hopperus Buma
• A Checklists, Suppliers, and Specialist Advice p. 571
• B Publications p. 575
• C Internet p. 579
• 35 Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories p. 591 Timothy Healing
• 36 Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission p. 597 Ken Millar
• 37 Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors p. 611 Martin C.M. Bricknell and Donald F. Thompson
• 38 Accreditation in Field Medicine p. 613 Ken Millar
• 39 Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers p. 619 James I.D.M. Matheson
• Code of Behaviour p. 625
• Index p. 627