Summary. The goal of the study is to show, on basis analysis experience unified center dispatching, monitoring and medical evacuation in structure Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine Sverdlovsk region, efficiency dispatching service, operating functional same information field as regional emergency service. Materials research methods. Sources materials theme: normative methodological docum...

The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros lies off between Madagascar and the Southeast Coast of Africa, and comprises a group of three islands with a total population of 651,901. The average annual income per capita is US$ 470 and life expectancies at birth are 59.3 years for men and 63.9 years for women. It became independent from France in 1975 and for the past 17 years, Comorians have mad...

BACKGROUND Despite efforts to improve preparedness training for health professionals, disaster medicine remains a peripheral component of traditional medical education in the United States (US) and is a rarely studied topic in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES Using a pre-/post-test design, we measured the extent to which 4(th)-year medical students perceive, rapidly learn, and apply basic c...

Please cite this paper as: Khorram-Manesh A. Youth Are Our Future Assets in Emergency and Disaster Management. Bull Emerg Trauma. 2017;5(1):1-3. *Corresponding author: Amir Khorram-Manesh Address: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Center, Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Tel: +46-707-722741 e-mail: amir.khorra...

In this issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Clarke et al have given an insightful look into issues surrounding the needs of hospitals responding to chemically contaminated victims of mass-casualty incidents.1 In doing so, they also have provided an opportunity to examine more general concerns related to disasters. It is intuitive that hospitals play a major role in disaster response; th...

The advancement of emergency medical services (EMS) and disaster medicine requires vigorous research. Without systematic investigation, the knowledge base for EMS and disaster medicine will fail to develop and advance. Adding to the scientific knowledge base should be the goal of a researcher, and writing only for personal advancement and acclaim are to be discouraged. It is important that rese...

Introduction: Disaster medicine education is a huge challenge, but essential to disaster preparedness. While natural disasters have always been part of world events, recent large-scale and man-made drawn attention medicine. As consequence, medical schools in many parts the begun incorporate disaster-related topics into their curricula. However, territory former USSR, has just its development, a...

Introduction: Advances in technology can drastically improve the ability of providers to care for survivors a disaster. Research into new applications Disaster Medicine space, and dissemination technological achievements are vital saving lives. This presentation discusses several recently proven technologies field disaster medicine which deserve further dissemination, as well promising currentl...