Emergency and Disaster Medicine

Introductory Speeches.- Address Delivered to the Holy Father by the President of the Congress.- Science and Conscience: Undeniable Requirements for Effective Emergency Medicine.- Inaugural Address by the President of the Congress.- The Club of Mainz.- Message from the Representative of the World Health Organization.- The Role of the Red Cross.- Introductory Report on Civil Defense in Italy.- An Ethical Evaluation of Emergency Medicine.- Resuscitation Potentials in Mass Disasters.- The Best Medicine Is to Stave Off Megadisasters.- Types and Events of Disasters.- The World Health Organization in Burn Disasters.- The Genesis of Earthquakes: What Is Necessary for Our Protection?.- An Overview of Aircraft Disasters.- Radiation Accidents and Their Emergency Management.- Types of Intervention in Natural and Man-Made Disasters.- Coping with Accidents and Emergencies Involving the Release of Potentially Toxic Chemicals.- The Salvageability of Disasters Victims: The Scientific Basis for Disaster Planning, Rescue, and Response.- Civil Defense Planning for Nuclear War.- Emergency Medical Support in Radiation Accidents.- Organization of Radiological Emergency in France.- Disaster Management in New Zealand.- Training and Education in Disasters.- A Hypothetical Regional Health Education Program on Disasters and Major Risks.- Community Disaster: Planning and Training Aspects.- The Training and Information of Personnel Concerned with Prevention, Supervision, and Intervention of Major Hazards.- Training of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Japan.- A Television-Centered Public Campaign for the Propagation of General Training in Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Disaster and Emergency Medicine: Definitions, Education.- Nutrition, Pain, and Infection Control.- Pain Control in Mass Casualties.- Intramuscular Ketamine: An Alternative Pain Treatment for Use in Disasters?.- Communicable Diseases and Epidemiological Surveillance in Natural Disasters, with Special Emphasis on Developing Countries.- Investigations on Epidemiology and Prophylaxis of Nosocomial Infections in Intensive Care Units.- Risk of Infection in Natural Disasters: Experiences and Perspectives.- Nutritional Problems of Refugees: Three Years' Experience in the Somali Camps.- Organization of Services in Disasters.- Integration of Disaster Relief Services.- The Anesthetist in Emergency and Disaster Medicine.- A New Approach in Planning Disaster Relief: A Disaster Relief Center.- The Use of Communications Satellite Systems in Major Disaster Situations.- Functional Outlines and Design of Mobile Emergency Care Units for Use in Disasters.- The Role of Air Transportation in Disaster Relief.- Does the Plan Work? Four and a Half Years' Experience with Disasters at the Shaarei Zedek Medical Center (1975-1979).- Medical Assistance at Automobile Racing Circuits.- Casualties Prediction, Risk Assessment, and Forensic Medicine Aspects.- Prediction of High-Consequence Events Having Low Probabilities.- Technological Risk Assessment with Some Examples from Energy Production and Medical Technology.- Economic Aspects of Emergency System Evaluation.- Operational Intervention Relevant to Forensic Medicine with Special Reference to the Various Environmental Situations and the Typology of Catastrophe.- Real-Time Intervention of Teams on Site for Identification of Victims.- The Odontostomatological Aspects of Victim Identification.- Clinical Aspects of Trauma.