Table of Contents

to Terror Medicine.- Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.- Preparation and Response.- EMS and Pre-Hospital Issues.- Effects of Terrorism on the Healthcare Community.- Terror Medicine: Education and Training.- Modeling and Simulation in Terror Medicine.- National Coordination and Integration.- Response Planning.- Technology Opportunities and Challenges.- Weapon Etiologies.- Epidemiology of Terrorism Injuries.- Explosions and Blast Injury.- Biological Agents and Terror Medicine.- Chemical Agents and Terror Medicine.- Radiological Agents and Terror Medicine.- Cyber-Terrorism: Preparation and Response.- Types of Injury.- Penetrating Injury in Terror Attacks.- Orthopedic Injury in Urban Terrorism.- Terror-Inflicted Burn Injury.- Neurosurgical Injury Related to Terror.- Crush Injury, Crush Syndrome.- Maxillofacial Injury Related to Terror.- Pediatrics and Terrorism.- Aftermath and Ethical Considerations.- Forensic Investigation of Suicide Bombings.- Psychological Effects of Terror Attacks.- Ethics and Terror Medicine.

Reviews

From the reviews: "An international group of authors present the basics of terror medicine. … Practitioners and trainees in emergency medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and other specialties treating trauma are an appropriate audience for this work … . Administrators with responsibility for acute care programs may also benefit from this background material. … I recommend this resource for practitioners and hospitals serving in the acute care safety net." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009) “The latest single source reference to address the multitude of issues that arise in our fairly elementary experience in disaster preparedness and response related to terrorist acts. … The challenge for readers … is the applicability of the lessons from countries where terrorism is a daily concern to a country in which even the memories of September 11 have dimmed. … Essentials of Terror Medicine does a nice job of consolidating and distilling important and practical information … with a truly qualified list of contributors.” (David V. Shatz, The Journal of TRAUMA, Vol. 67 (6), December, 2009)