Cole / Connell Local Planning for Terror and Disaster

From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-39776-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten, E-Book

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice toexperts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessingthe quality of preparedness in each field, and offering directionsfor improvement. Introductory chapters provide overviews ofterror medicine, security and communications, which areindispensable to successful preparedness, while subsequent chaptersconcentrate on a particular field and how responders from thatfield communicate and interact with others during and after anevent. Thus, a chapter by a physician discusses not onlythe doctor's role but how that role is, or should be, coordinatedwith emergency medical technicians and police. Similarly,chapters by law enforcement figures also review policeresponsibilities and interactions with nurses, EMTs, volunteers andother relevant responders.
Developed from topics at recent Symposia on Terror Medicine andSecurity, Local Planning also encompasses aspects ofemergency and disaster medicine, as well as techniques fordiagnosis, rescue, coordination and security that are distinctiveto a terrorist attack. Each chapter also includesa case study that demonstrates preparedness, or lack thereof,for a real or hypothetical event, including lessons learned, nextsteps, and areas for improvement in this globalera which increasingly calls for preparedness at a locallevel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Leonard A.

Connell, Nancy D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTRIBUTORS vii
PROLOGUE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION: THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN
1 Preparedness, Uncertainty, and Terror Medicine 3
Leonard A. Cole
2 Bioterrorism and the Communication of Uncertainty 17
Leonard A. Cole, Laura H. Kahn, and Peter M. Sandman
3 Responding to Disaster and Terrorism: The Central Role of Communication 29
Steven M. Becker
PART II HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
4 The Role of the Emergency Physician 47
Emily G. Kidd, Donald H. Jenkins, and Craig A. Manifold
5 The Role of the Nurse 61
Dian Dowling Evans, Samuel E. Shartar, and James W. Gordon
6 The Role of the Dentist 71
David L. Glotzer
7 The Role of the Emergency Medical Technician 83
Brendan McCluskey and Henry P. Cortacans
8 The Role of the Mental Health Professional 95
Ann E. Norwood, Lisa M. Brown, and Gerard A. Jacobs
PART III INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT
9 The Role of the Manager of Mass Casualty and Disaster Events 111
Shmuel C. Shapira and Limor Aharonson-Daniel
10 The Role of Public Health 123
Henry Falk and Isaac Ashkenazi
11 The Role of the Hospital Receiver 139
Mark A. Merlin
12 Managing Traumatic Stress 153
Steven M. Crimando
PART IV SUPPORT AND SECURITY
13 The Role of the On-Scene Bystander and Survivor 165
Bruria Adini
14 The Role of the Trained Volunteer 177
Brenda D. Phillips, Njoki Mwarumba, and Debra Wagner
15 Bioterrorism, Biosecurity, and the Laboratory 189
Nancy D. Connell and James Netterwald
16 The Role of the Law Enforcement Officer 201
Graeme R. Newman and Ronald V. Clarke
17 A Model Case of Counterterrorism: Thwarting a Subway Bombing 215
Joshua Sinai
18 The Newest Security Threat: Cyber-Conflict 227
Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos
PART V CONCLUSION
19 Preparedness, Black Swans, and Salient Themes 241
Nancy D. Connell and Leonard A. Cole
Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Leonard Cole is an adjunct professor of politicalscience at Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, and director of theProgram on Terror Medicine and Security at UMDNJ's Center forBioDefense. He has published widely on terrorism-relatedsubjects including chapters in two recent Wiley volumes: SuicideTerror and Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax. Hismost recent books are The Anthrax Letters (revised edition,2009) and Essentials of Terror Medicine (co-editor, 2009). Afull list of works by Dr. Cole is available on his websitewww.leonardcole.com.
Dr. Nancy Connell is professor of infectious disease atthe Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey. She is director of UMDNJ's Center for BioDefense,has authored numerous scientific articles, and has served onnational and regional panels concerning biosecurity. Currently, she is a member of the National Academy of Sciencescommittee on the "Review of the Scientific Approaches Used by theFBI During Its Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Mailings."