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The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Overview The First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters
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    Chapter 2 Thermal agent disaster and fire disaster: definition, damage, assessment and relief operations
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    Chapter 3 The scientific basis of disaster medicine
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    Chapter 4 Overcoming the mythology of disaster
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    Chapter 5 Analysis of severe fire disasters
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    Chapter 6 Fire disasters in Osaka
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    Chapter 7 Lessons from the Dublin 1981 fire catastrophe
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    Chapter 8 Forest fires and the danger to fire-fighters
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    Chapter 9 Forest fires in Sicily
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    Chapter 10 Safety regulations in high-risk industries. The situation in petrochemical plants in Sicily
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    Chapter 11 Domestic fire problems in Third World countries
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    Chapter 12 Domestic burns in children caused by butane gas explosion
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    Chapter 13 Accidents due to electricity and burns. A statistical analysis of events occurring at the National Electricity Energy Board during the period 1988–1989
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    Chapter 14 Fire in port
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    Chapter 15 Fire on board ship
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    Chapter 16 Marine fire casualties in merchant ships: the Greek statistics
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    Chapter 17 Fire services at a motor racing track
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    Chapter 18 Fire emergency in a hospital
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    Chapter 19 Fire prevention countermeasures for cultural properties in Nara City
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    Chapter 20 Immediate assistance and first aid on the spot in fire disasters — education of the public and self-sufficiency training
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    Chapter 21 Health education in disaster medicine
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    Chapter 22 System of postgraduate training in burn emergencies in Prague
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    Chapter 23 Training of specialists for burn care in Turkey
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    Chapter 24 The organization of safety and fire The organization of safety and fire prevention in a multidisciplinary research centre
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    Chapter 25 Personal protective equipment in operations involving burn risks: theory and practice
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    Chapter 26 Risks and protection of fire-fighters in forests. An outline
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    Chapter 27 Problems of search and rescue in disasters
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    Chapter 28 Planning of rescue work in mass fire disasters. The Paris Red Plan
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    Chapter 29 Field logistical organization in the Italian Army Medical Corps
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    Chapter 30 The commitment of the Italian Army Medical Corps to relief of the civilian population in the event of public disasters
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    Chapter 31 The organization of the Italian Army Medical Corps in relation to contributions to civil defence in the event of disasters
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    Chapter 32 The use of aircraft in fire disasters: the Italian Air Force Medical Corps in burn emergencies
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    Chapter 33 Infobrul — the value of a telematic databank for burns and burns centres in the event of a disaster
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    Chapter 34 Organizational criteria for setting up a field hospital after a fire disaster
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    Chapter 35 Clinical file and protocol for general doctors and for non-specialized hospital doctors to assist burn patients
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    Chapter 36 Medical care of mass burn victims: the Vishnevsky principles and organization in the Ufa disaster
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    Chapter 37 On-site treatment of severely burned patients
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    Chapter 38 The early cooling of burns
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    Chapter 39 Therapeutic kit and procedures for fluid resuscitation in disasters
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    Chapter 40 Ready-to-use emergency kit for treatment of severe burns: definition and specifications
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    Chapter 41 Physiopathology of burn disease during air evacuation
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    Chapter 42 The use of helicopters in integrated rescue work and medical transport
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    Chapter 43 Rescue of the burn patient and on-site medical assistance by a helicopter rescue service
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    Chapter 44 The burn patient and medically assisted helicopter transport
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    Chapter 45 The ARGO satellite system: a network for severe burns and disasters
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    Chapter 46 The Italian Army Medical Corps in the field: flexibility of mobile organization
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    Chapter 47 Burn treatment facilities in Turkey
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    Chapter 48 The establishment of a burns centre at a general hospital: the Naples experience
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    Chapter 49 Cyanide compounds in fire gas toxicity and the role of hydroxycobalamin
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    Chapter 50 Early management of the critically burned patient
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    Chapter 51 Psychological reactions in fire disaster emergencies: hypotheses and operational guidelines
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    Chapter 52 Prevention and treatment of acute renal failure in the severely burned patient
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    Chapter 53 Early and late immunological changes in burn patients
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    Chapter 54 An approach to the management of hand burns using semipermeable membranes
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    Chapter 55 Care of traumatic tattoos associated with gunpowder explosions and blast burns
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    Chapter 56 Clinical technology in small hospitals
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    Chapter 57 Mass media and serious emergencies
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    Chapter 58 The mass media and fire disasters — information according to medical and psychological criteria
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    Chapter 59 The role of the mass media in burn prevention campaigns — psychological considerations
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    Chapter 60 The philosophy of a burns prevention campaign
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    Chapter 61 Communications in the prevention of natural and man-made disasters: the role of the national and international Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations
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    Chapter 62 The action of the European Community for civil defence
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    Chapter 63 Japan’s international disaster relief
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    Chapter 64 The role of the Italian Red Cross in emergencies
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Title
The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters
Published by
Springer Netherlands, July 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-0-585-33973-3
ISBNs
978-0-7923-8804-3, 978-0-585-33973-3
Editors

Masellis, M., Gunn, S.W.A.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 25%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 50%
Unknown 2 50%