Advanced Disaster Medical Response is designed to train health care providers to respond to natural and manmade disasters as well as disasters caused by weapons of mass destruction. It is 199 pages with full-color photos and illustrations. Twenty-five chapters divided into nine sections cover:

Mass Casualty Incident Management
Incident Command Structure
Medical Response to Disasters
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Public Health Response to Disasters
Decontamination
Medical Response to Terrorism
Care of Specific Injuries in Disasters
Environmental Considerations
Special Considerations (including Psychological Aspects of Disasters and Care of the Dead and their Families)

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Susan Briggs, MD, MPH, FACS, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and attending general and trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is Supervising Medical Officer of the NDMS Specialty Teams, including the International Medical Surgical Response Teams, and directs the Harvard Medical International Trauma and Disaster Institute.

Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, MPH, FACEP, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University and an emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center. She is director of research, training and quality improvement for Boston Emergency Medical Services and a member of the NDMS Boston disaster teams.

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