Disaster Medicine

DISASTER MEDICINE, has been especially designed for doctors to help them with their practice when some disasters occur. It has been written with the intention of being a comprehensive guide or reference for medical staff and students in medical schools and will enable them to cope with emergency situations, as there are many more disasters taking place before we can predict. The book is divided into 11 chapters. It briefly introduces the definition, extent of disaster, and the characteristics, assignments and meanings for the rescue technique of disaster medicine. It also describes the basic rescue techniques of disaster medicine in detail. It illustrates some common natural disasters like earthquake, fire, flood and so on respectively, and rescue knowledge and techniques for human-induced disasters on the spot like traffics, mine and poisoning accidents, etc., with the prominence of field rescue. It expounds particularly the common diseases (including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology pediatrics, dermatology, etc.) and common operations and medicines as well. In some chapters, it also introduces some diagnosis, principles of treatment and formula of Traditional Chinese Medicine.