Department of Emergency Medicine

EMS Disaster Didactics

 
 
 

Selected Readings in Emergency Management & Disaster Response

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
  1. CDC/ACEP collaborative project on surge preparation: role of the Emergency Department
  2. CDC/ACEP collaborative project on surge preparation: role of Emergency Medical Services
  3. National Preparedness for a Catastrophic Emergency
  4. Trauma system: the backbone of disaster preparedness
  5. Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster: A Framework for Allocation of Scarce Resources in Mass Critical Care
  6. Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster: A Framework for Optimizing Critical Care Surge Capacity
  7. Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster: Medical Resources for Surge Capacity
  8. Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster: Current Capabilities & Limitations
  9. Health Security in 2014: building on preparedness knowledge for emerging health threats
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER RESPONSE
  1. After action report: medical response to the tornado that struck a Joplin, Missouri hospital
  2. Houston's Medical Disaster Response to Hurricane Katrina Part 1
  3. Houston's Medical Disaster Response to Hurricane Katrina Part 2
PANDEMIC DISASTER RESPONSE
  1. H1N1 Influenza, Public Health Preparedness, and Health Care Reform
TERRORIST EVENT RESPONSE
  1. The Dark Night: Aurora response video
  2. Common Rashes of Chemical/Biological Terrorism & Mass Casualty Management
  3. MIEMSS Clinical Treatment Guidelines for Weapons of Mass Destruction
  4. Brief powerpoint presentation on blast injuries and the response to the Boston Bombing
  5. New England Journal of Medicine clinical review article on Bioterrorism 03/2015
PHYSICIAN INVOLVEMENT
  1. Fight of Flight: The Ethics of Emergency Physician Disaster Response