Disaster and Respiratory Diseases (eBook)

Volume EditorKeisaku Fujimoto, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Shinshu University School of Health Sciences​Series EditorsHiroyuki Nakamura, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, Ibaraki, JapanKazutetsu Aoshiba, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, Ibaraki, Japan

Part I : Respiratory Injury Directly Induced by a Disaster.-Chapter 1: Dust, asbestos, and sludge exposure: What kinds of respiratory injuries are caused by disaster-induced dust, asbestos, and sludge exposure?.-Chapter 2: Tsunami lung in Great East Japan Earthquake 2011: clinical time course, feature, pathogenesis and treatment.-Chapter 3: Respiratory tract burns, traumatic pulmonary contusions, crushing death, and crush syndrome: What kinds of lung injury occur by respiratory tract burn, traumatic contusion, and crushing syndrome?.-Part II: Respiratory Disturbance by Aggravation of the Living Environment.-Chapter 4: Respiratory infection and aggravation of pulmonary disease related to environmental hygiene aggravation: What types of respiratory infection and aggravation of respiratory diseases are increased by aggravation of environmental hygiene?.-Chapter 5: Aggravation of asthma by cold, fatigue, stress, or discontinuation of medicines: What should we measures and prevents worse of asthma control induced by the aggravation of the environmental hygiene and/or the stopping medicine?Chapter 6: Exacerbation of COPD by air pollution, cold temperatures, or discontinuation of medicine: what should be measured to help prevent it?.-Chapter 7: Onset of DVT or pulmonary thromboembolism related to the life in a car or narrow shelter: What should we do to prevent the onset of the pulmonary thromboembolism?.-Part III: Aggravation of Existing Respiratory Diseases by the Lack of Health Resource Due to The Lifeline Stoppage.-Chapter 8 : What a patient and his family should do when unable to continue home oxygen therapy and home mechanical ventilation during a blackout: When unable to continue home oxygen therapy and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation due to a power outage, what should the patient and family member(s) do?.-Chapter 9: Aggravation of the existing respiratory diseases by the loss or difficulty in supplying of medicines and medical application: What happened and what measurements should the community and the patient and his family do when the medicines for the existing respiratory disease are lost or not supplied?.-Chapter 10: Aggravation of the existing respiratory diseases due to transportation stoppage, closure of the medical institution, and shortage of doctors: What measurements securing health resources and what actions for the supply of health resources are talked about?.-Part IV: Countermeasures Against Disaster for the Patients with Respiratory Diseases.-Chapter 11: Anti-disaster measures in local public entities for patients prescribed long-term oxygen therapy:Have local public entities made appropriate anti-disaster measures for patients prescribed long-term oxygen therapy?.-Chapter 12: Anti‐disaster measures for patients: What measures can patients take to prepare for disasters?.​