Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Emergency Medical Care in Disasters, a Summary of Recorded Experience: A Special Report Prepared for the Committee on Disaster Studies
The Committee on Disaster Studies of the Division of Anthro pology and Psychology of the National Academy of sciences-national Research Council has been in existence since December, 1951. The Committee has sponsored a number of studies of disasters in order to gather information about the behavior of humans in these extreme situations. Certain information on the medical care given casual ties under disaster conditions has been amassed during the course of these general fact-gathering studies. Further data on medical care of disaster casualties has been secured by special study teams detailed to investigate this problem more systematically. The information thus obtained has been sufficiently provocative that it has seemed a worthwhile endeavor to seek out and consolidate the recorded data on emergency medical care in disasters.
It is hoped that this effort will produce better understanding of the magnitude of the problems of medical care in disaster and that planning for medical care in future disasters W111 improve by lessons learned from past experiences.
The information available for study is not complete but an attempt has been made to summarize the pertinent publications. Sources include reports of studies carried out under auspices of the Committee on Disaster Studies, publications by physicians and interested participants involved in past disasters, studies made by the National Opinion Research Center, and material obtained from recorded interviews made by various groups in different disasters.
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