Mayumi Kako from Hiroshima University drops by the podcast series to talk about a recent paper she co-authored that appears in the December 2020 issue of PDM – “Developing New Information Sheets for Evacuees and Evacuation Centers to be Used During All Natural Disaster Phases.”
Read the full-text article here – http://bit.ly/evac-center.
The December issue (Volume 35, Issue 6) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available through Cambridge Core. The current issue features a Guest Editorial titled, “Counter-Terrorism Medicine: Creating a Medical Initiative Mandated by Escalating Asymmetric Attacks” written by Michael Court, Brydie Edwards, Fadi Issa, Amalia Voskanyan, and Gregory Ciottone.
Also included in the December issue are articles examining the COVID-19 response by the National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) in Sierra Leone, pharmacy operations in Tasmania within communities impacted by the 2018-19 bushfires, the implementation of crisis standards of care at the state level in the United States, airway clearance and management using suction devices in prehospital combat casualty care, and much more!
WADEM members have unlimited access to every issue of PDM through Cambridge Core. Click on the “Latest Issue” tab to view 35:6. 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.
WADEM’s 2nd edition of its Virtual Journal Club features none other than PDM’s own Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Sam Stratton, presenting an overview and analysis of the following article:
“Impact of Dispatcher-Assisted Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20000588
This article was published in the August 2020 issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine and is available to read at the following link – https://bit.ly/wadem-vjc-2.