Katastrophenmedizin

Disaster medicine provides you with concrete action recommendations for a variety of operational situations. The book assists you as a responsible party in mastering the specific challenges in disaster protection—medically, medically-technically, and logistically.

Tactics in action – organizing time, space, and personnel. Special damage situations such as accidents involving vehicles and technical rescue of individuals, "crowding" at mass events, building collapses, police situations, widespread overload situations, infectious diseases, chemical and radiation accidents, failure of critical infrastructures, risk analysis for large events, structural and legal issues, psychosocial crisis intervention, and ethical aspects.

New in the 2nd edition: COVID-19 pandemic, operations in underdeveloped countries, unmanned aerial rescue (drones). All content completely revised and updated.

The book is aimed at all professionals involved in medical disaster response: leaders from emergency services, disaster protection, fire departments, aid organizations, and hospitals, as well as specialized services from the police and the armed forces—particularly senior emergency physicians, organizational leaders, group, section, and association leaders, emergency service providers from public administration (including medical leadership) as well as disaster protection authorities at the municipal and state level (including crisis management teams), state supervisory authorities, and specialized departments of health offices, federal civil protection planning, operational planners for the aforementioned services and for special large events, vocational schools in emergency services and nursing (especially for advanced training), training institutions for disaster and civil protection, and universities with degree programs in disaster response.