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Save the dates for the WADEM's first-ever virtual forum! Response, Resilience, and Reset: Finding Order in Complexity is an online gathering featuring live-streamed presentations and discussions with experts from disaster medicine, risk reduction, and emergency preparedness.
A new paper in PDM describes a successful example of a novel program in #Thailand to train village health volunteers as first responders to deal with emergency medical conditions. Read the Open Access article here - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001545.
New article in PDM "Health Care Organizations: Soft Target during COVID-19 Pandemic." This study describes why health organizations are targets for lone wolves, extremist factions, and state-driven terrorism - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X2100025X.
What does it take for pharmacists to be prepared for disasters? Read about research on the disaster preparedness of Australian pharmacists in a new paper published in PDM - http://bit.ly/pharmacists-in-disasters.
A new article in PDM analyzes the effect of COVID-19 after Hurricanes Eta and Iota struck Honduras in late-2020. Read it here - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X21000182.
In Sierra Leone, the newly developed National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) helps the country move past war and Ebola. In a recent article in PDM, Dr. Luca Ragazzoni describes how NEMS grew to be a success. Read the article here - http://bit.ly/nems-design.
Despite its widespread use for determining public health preparedness in the US, the NHSPI does not appear to be a predictor of excess mortality related to the COVID pandemic. Read the article in PDM - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001521 .
COVID-19 vaccine distribution is highlighting the need for a population-based management model to ensure community needs and risks are reflected during a health crisis. Read how this model can be implemented - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001363.

PDM Podcast #12: Terrorism in Australia & China: The Need for Counter-Terrorism Medicine

WADEM · PDM Podcast #12 – Terrorism in Australia & China: the Need for Counter-Terrorism Medicine

Dr. Derrick Tin, Senior Fellow Disaster and Counter-Terrorism Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, appears on the podcast series to give an overview of a series of counter-terrorism papers currently being published in PDM, the first two focusing on Australia and China. Also discussed are the needs for the subspecialty of counterterrorism medicine within disaster medicine and what future threats might look like.

PDM 36:2 (April 2021) is now on Cambridge Core!

The April issue (Volume 36, Issue 2) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available on Cambridge Core. This issue features several Open Access (OA) Covid-related articles including a look at the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies among municipal first responders, the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras during the pandemic, and on-boat resuscitation by lifeguards in the Covid era.

Also included in the April issue are articles examining a community-based first responder network in rural Thailand; a five-part series on mass-gathering medical case reporting; the flooding of hemodialysis clinics after Hurricane Harvey, and much more! Be sure to check out the PDM podcast series featuring interviews with authors of recent articles – https://soundcloud.com/wadem-pdm.

WADEM members have unlimited access to every issue of PDM through Cambridge Core. Click on the “Latest Issue” tab to view 36:2. Check back often on FirstView for the most recent content regarding out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care, disaster medicine, and emergency public health and safety.

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PDM Podcast #12: Terrorism in Australia & China: The Need for Counter-Terrorism Medicine

PDM 36:2 (April 2021) is now on Cambridge Core!

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