Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine

MEDICAL INTERVENTION & THE WORLD WE LIVE IN: The new millennium - globalisation & conflict.- The world since 9/11 & 7/7.- New paradigms.- Spectrum of conflict.- Natural & Man made disasters.- Remote, austere & resource limited (Oil & Gas, oceans, mountains & desert) .- The players NGOs, IGOs & the Military.- Medical/health intervention.- LIVING & WORKING: Getting involved.- Planning.- Clothing, immunisations, personal equipment.- Hazards - Staying safe.- Mines.- Personal security.- Communications/GPS/Telemed.- Psychological aspects.- Taking care of the home front, job protection.- CONFLICT, DISASTER & PUBLIC HEALTH: Displacement & migration.- Refugees & IDPs.- Health threats & principles of intervention.- Protection-based physical planning.- International Humanitarian Law.- Conflict recovery.- CLINICAL CARE: Pre-Hospital planning.- Aviation medicine.- Communications Technology.- Capability & applied communications.- Acute medical problems.- Women's health.- Children's health.- Trauma, surgical & related conditions. Introduction.Orthopaedics & Trauma.Ballistics & Blast.Abdominal & Acute Surgical Emergencies.Dental & ENT. Anaesthesia & Analgesia.- CASE STUDIES: Multi-agency/multiple angle perspectives.- Tsunamis (Sri Lanka) .- Earthquake (Turkey, Iran & Pakistan) .- Storms & Floods (New Orleans) .- Failed States.- The Middle East.- Recent conflicts.- Terrorism - 9/11, Madrid & 7/7.- CREDENTIALING, EDUCATION & TRAINING - THE DMCC EXAMINATION: Essential knowledge & skills.- Assessment of competency.- RESOURCES: Publications.- Checkists, Suppliers, & Specialist Advice.- Using the Internet.- "AND FINALLY"