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The Great Disaster: Disaster Nursing and Disaster Awareness
2023Disasters may affect the majority of the population physically, socially, economically, environmentally, and psychologically. Precautions and disaster management plans allow to mitigate the impact of disasters and reduce disaster-related damage. Nurses have very important roles and responsibilities in disaster management. Nurses, who have roles such as
ÖZGÜRSOY URAN, Berna Nilgün +1 more
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On Disasters and Disaster Knowledges
Frauensolidarität, 2021In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. More than 1.200 people were confirmed dead, many of whom were swept away by the huge waves. But disasters are not ‘natural’. The ways we inhabit space matter. What voices are heard before and after a disaster? How could spatial planning prevent disasters? Two
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2019
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and ...
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A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and ...
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2004
TAD and AAA are two of the highest risk disease entities in emergency medicine. Emergency physicians should be vigilant in their approach to patients who have symptoms compatible with acute aortic disease. In chest and abdominal pain presentations, the chart must look like there was a search for the TAD and AAA.
Robert L, Rogers, Ryan, McCormack
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TAD and AAA are two of the highest risk disease entities in emergency medicine. Emergency physicians should be vigilant in their approach to patients who have symptoms compatible with acute aortic disease. In chest and abdominal pain presentations, the chart must look like there was a search for the TAD and AAA.
Robert L, Rogers, Ryan, McCormack
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Disasters and Disaster Management
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010A disaster is a state or an event which disrupts the functioning of a community or a society. The local communities mostly cannot resolve of their own in the disasters. The disaster selection criteria in this study are based on the geographical scale of a disaster, the warning time of a disaster occurrence, the number of injuries and deaths resulting ...
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The disaster after the disaster: The quicksand of post-disaster recovery funding
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2019The incidence of natural disasters is on a steep rise, as are the costs associated with recovering from such incidents. Financially, this trend is unsustainable. In the USA, for example, severe reductions have been imposed on the grant funds available for distribution by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Disaster response. Natural disaster: Katrina
Surgery Today, 2010The aftermath and response to a disaster can be divided into four phases. The importance of each depends on the length of time without resupply and the resources that are required. This in turn depends on the time span of the disaster; the area involved; the number of the population affected; the resupply available; the extent of the devastation; and ...
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Resuscitation, 2010
Emergency preparedness has come to the forefront of everyone's minds in the last decade with international events such as 911 in New York and 7/7 in London and the Avian and Swine flu pandemics. Each major incident has its own unique course of action and so preparing the healthcare community has become an expanding and increasingly complex area with ...
Matthew W, Cooke, Samantha J, Brace
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Emergency preparedness has come to the forefront of everyone's minds in the last decade with international events such as 911 in New York and 7/7 in London and the Avian and Swine flu pandemics. Each major incident has its own unique course of action and so preparing the healthcare community has become an expanding and increasingly complex area with ...
Matthew W, Cooke, Samantha J, Brace
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Nursing Management, 2007
Terrorism and naturally occurring catastrophic events provide fertile ground for nursing emergency preparedness, including deployment strategies. Are you ready to respond?
Geraldine A, Coyle +2 more
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Terrorism and naturally occurring catastrophic events provide fertile ground for nursing emergency preparedness, including deployment strategies. Are you ready to respond?
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Pediatrics, 1980
The article by Cleary and Kohl (Pediatrics 64:301, 1979) describes an unusual and disastrous complication of infant circumcision. We recently cared for a neonate who developed a similar infection of the perineum, genitalia, and abdominal wall following routine circumcision.1 On admission, three days after circumcision, he was lethargic, hypotensive ...
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The article by Cleary and Kohl (Pediatrics 64:301, 1979) describes an unusual and disastrous complication of infant circumcision. We recently cared for a neonate who developed a similar infection of the perineum, genitalia, and abdominal wall following routine circumcision.1 On admission, three days after circumcision, he was lethargic, hypotensive ...
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