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A new systematic review in PDM was developed to inform and support a subsequent modified Delphi study to develop #prehospital guidelines for spinal immobilization in disasters and resource-scarce environments. Read the article - https://bit.ly/spinal-care.
Year of the Nurse Podcast #1 – Don Garlick
In recognition of the World Health Organization’s Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020, WADEM is launching a podcast series highlighting the work that nurses do around the world. In this podcast. Prof. Ally Hutton discusses nursing, communications, the Australian Bushfires, COVID-19, and leadership with Don Garlick.
Don is an Emergency Manager and Critical Care Nurse at Ballarat Health Services in Victoria, Australia. Listen to this podcast and all our podcasts on WADEM’s SoundCloud page.
Save the Dates for the Next WADEM Congress!
| WADEM Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine
11-14 May 2021 Tokyo, Japan Co-Hosted by the Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine (JADM) |
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PDM 35:3 (June 2020) is now on Cambridge Core!
The June issue (Volume 35, Issue 3) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available through Cambridge Core. This issue features a wide range of articles including ketamine as a prehospital analgesic, disaster planning for homeless populations, the epidemiology of extreme weather event disasters (1969-2018), the effect of extreme temperature on naloxone nasal spray dispensing device performance, and much more!
The June issue also includes a special Guest Editorial by Prof. Frederick “Skip” Burkle titled, “Declining Public Health Protections within Autocratic Regimes: Impact on Global Public Health Security, Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics.”
WADEM members have unlimited access to every issue of PDM through Cambridge Core. Click on the “Latest Issue” tab to view 35:3. Check back often for the most recent content in disaster and emergency health care!