{"title":"Effects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services","authors":"A. Verghese","doi":"10.1001/JAMA.1988.03410050128046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/JAMA.1988.03410050128046","url":null,"abstract":"This book is an updated report by an international committee of experts in medical sciences and public health commissioned by the World Health Organization to report on the consequences of nuclear war on health and health services. If you consider yourself knowledgeable and appropriately alarmed about the danger of nuclear war, and even if you are involved (as are many physicians) in the effort to prevent nuclear war, this book will still disturb you. There is the obligatory recitation of the magnitude of arms buildup (more than 15 000 megatons, the destructive power of this mass being such that if only 1% of it were utilized in urban areas, more people would be killed in a few hours than during the whole of the Second World War) followed by a very detailed but quite readable accounting of physical characteristics of nuclear explosions. In addition to the blast wave (containing half","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130697822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Benjamin, T. J. Iberti, K. Kelly, D. P. Katz, M. Montarry, M. Rosen
{"title":"Oxygen Consumption and CO2 Production in Canine Hemorrhagic Shock","authors":"E. Benjamin, T. J. Iberti, K. Kelly, D. P. Katz, M. Montarry, M. Rosen","doi":"10.1097/00003246-198704000-00214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-198704000-00214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121110839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. J. Iberti, S. R. Berger, T. Paluch, D. Gentili, G. Premus, E. Benjamin
{"title":"Endotoxin Blunts the Chronotropic Response to Isoproterenol in the Dog Model","authors":"T. J. Iberti, S. R. Berger, T. Paluch, D. Gentili, G. Premus, E. Benjamin","doi":"10.1097/00003246-198704000-00125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-198704000-00125","url":null,"abstract":"organizative, economical and therapeutical","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123872528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mountain Air Rescue in the Alps","authors":"G. Flora","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032787","url":null,"abstract":"For over 100 years, Innsbruck, Austria had been a center for Alpine and winter sports. In 1896, it became necessary to found an Alpine rescue service to come to the help of mountain climbers and skiers who were injured or stranded in our mountains. The reason for today's accidents are the same as they were 50 years ago. On the one hand, Alpine accidents are a consequence of preventable dangers, such as inadequate equipment, carelessness, and too little Alpine experience. On the other hand, they are caused by objective dangers, e.g., falling rocks, weather, lightning and avalanches. The rescue methods, however, have undergone a fundamental change over the last 3 years.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114929445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resuscitation and Surgery for Soldiers of the American Civil War (1861–1865)","authors":"J. Watson","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032830","url":null,"abstract":"On June 2, 1862, William A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the United States Army, announced the intention of his office to collect material for the publication of a “Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861–1865)” (1), usually called the Civil War of the United States of America, or the War Between the Union (the North; the Federal Government) and the Confederacy of the Southern States. Forms for the monthly “Returns of Sick and Wounded” were reviewed, corrected and useful data compiled from these “Returns” and from statistics of the offices of the Adjutant General (payroll) and Quartermaster General (burial of decreased soldiers).","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128216805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Military and Civilian Air Rescue in Italy","authors":"C. Manni, G. Rotondo","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032805","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to other European countries, Italy lacks a Civil Defense Organization. Air Rescue is a task for the Italian Air Force Search and Rescue (S.A.R.) organization. It may also draw, if necessary, on the cooperation of the other Armed Forces and State Corps, the Merchant Navy, civilian organizations, the Italian Red Cross (C.R.I.), and the Mountain Rescue Service of the Italian Alpine Club (C.A.I.). The S.A.R. units intervene at the request of civil, state, public and private, national and international organizations. The tasks currently performed by the S.A.R. in Italy include search and rescue of civilian and military air crews lost at sea or over land and of shipwrecked survivors; emergency transport of doctors and supplies to the seriously sick or injured patients from ships at sea; inaccessible localities, earthquakes, floods, and other disasters.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116001773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuclear War the Ultimate Disaster","authors":"E. Chazov","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032465","url":null,"abstract":"Everyday humanity witnesses an opportunity to take a new step forward. Every morning millions of people enter a new day hoping for happiness and joys of life, and believing in a cloudless future. In everyday life with its troubles and problems, most people forget that their future wellbeing and happiness are endangered by thousands of missiles and nuclear warheads aimed at mankind itself. According to United Nations Reports, there are 50,000 nuclear warheads on Earth today. Their explosive energy is equal to over one million bombs of the kind dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Unfortunately, some politicians and some members of the lay public do not know (or rather do not want to know) the simple truth that mankind has produced and keeps in store a power that can annihilate its creators. Let me recall Jolio Curie's words: “People should not allow the forces they have managed to discover and learned how to handle now be the cause of their destruction.”","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128745805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System (CMCHS) in the USA","authors":"J. C. Bisgard, C. Mullaly","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032660","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Defense (DOD) must be prepared to deal with the most likely contingency situations. In developing plans, certain medical factors must be considered. One of these is mobilization time. In prior conflicts, we had sufficient time to expand the military medical system to meet the needs of military operations. We did this by organizing medical units, building hospitals, and training personnel. But, given the high state of readiness and mobility of current combat forces, a future conventional conflict could begin with very little warning. If the USA were to be involved in this kind of a situation, our military forces would have to be supported with our present medical capabilities.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124947442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helicopter Rescue in the Vietnam War","authors":"T. Scofield","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032702","url":null,"abstract":"The medical successes realized in Vietnam can be attributed to several factors: rapid evacuation of casualties by helicopter or ambulances; the availability of whole blood; well-equipped field hospitals; highly skilled and well-organized surgical teams; and improved medical management. Of these important factors, rapid evacuation by helicopter contributed the most to saving the lives of the wounded. Without effective helicopter evacuation, it would have been difficult to exploit the other factors and management of medical resources would have been less efficient.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131566434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Care for South Lebanon's Civilian Population Following the June 1982 War","authors":"T. Tulchinsky, Y. Adler","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X00032696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00032696","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Following the June 1982 war in South Lebanon, the Israel Ministry of Health sent a medical team to assess health conditions in the area, to assist in the restoration of local health services, and to provide additional medical assistance as needed in public health and specialized medical services. For the approximately 600,000 population of the area, public health sanitary conditions were restored by local authorities, with some external assistance. Sanitation and housing for the refugee camp populations were difficult to solve because of extensive damage in the camps; but United Nations activities, supported by international and Israeli sources, were effective. Epidemic conditions did not occur. Monitoring for specific infectious diseases showed increases not exceeding usual summer conditions. Child nutrition status was satisfactory. Medical needs for specialty services, not available in South Lebanon, were arranged through screening and referral to Israeli hospitals. Renal dialysis needs were met by establishing a dialysis unit using local personnel in a damaged and non-functioning government hospital. Private medical and hospital services, the bulk of health care in the area, functioned except for minor dislocations throughout the war and post-war period. Israeli medical aid, managed by a small multidisciplinary team, was designed to assist and, where necessary, augment rather than replace local health services.","PeriodicalId":221390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine","volume":"86 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123340078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}