Increased global terrorism has given rise to unique medical requirements that may be described as terror medicine. Using Israeli experience as a reference base, this paper notes four broad areas of terror medicine: preparedness, incident management, mechanisms of injuries and responses, and psychological consequences. Whether terror medicine is treated as a stand-alone discipline or part of dis...

When a disaster occurs, it is for governments to provide the leadership, civil defense, security, evacuation, and public welfare. The medical aspects of a disaster account for less than 10% of resource and personnel expenditure. Hospitals and health care provider teams respond to unexpected occurrences such as explosions, earthquakes, floods, fires, war, or the outbreak of an infectious epidemi...

1Department of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 2Department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation, Kocaeli University Hospital, Umuttepe, Kocaeli, Turkey 3School of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy 4MSc “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”, Medical School of University of Athens, Athens, Greece 5Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resusci...