Rethinking disaster vulnerabilities

Despite robust pre-disaster planning and an early activation of the hospital's incident command center, the 246- page emergency preparedness plan offered no guidance for such a situation, and staff were left with little support in dealing with an unprecedented disaster [8]. While geological eve...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2021-07, Vol.45, p.660-661
Main Authors: Tin, Derrick, Hart, Alexander, Ciottone, Gregory R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Counterterrorism
COVID-19
Disaster management
Disasters
Earthquakes
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical care
Emergency preparedness
Emergency services
Floods
Risk reduction
Terrorism
Tsunamis
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Summary:Despite robust pre-disaster planning and an early activation of the hospital's incident command center, the 246- page emergency preparedness plan offered no guidance for such a situation, and staff were left with little support in dealing with an unprecedented disaster [8]. While geological events of such scale will always be problematic, the potential failure of the scientific community tasked with tsunami risk reduction to imagine and prevent a worst-case scenario tsunami was raised [10]. The establishment of counter-terrorism medicine as a subspecialty aims to include roundtable discussions between healthcare, security, counter-terrorism and other emergency response agencies to address these escalating issues.
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.073