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Research & Reviews 464 results
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X22001145
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine; Liang SY, Tian L et. al.
Aug 10th, 2022 - In fostering community and culture through entertainment in shared spaces, performing arts venues have also become targets of terrorism. A greater understanding of these attacks is needed to assess the risk posed to different types of venues, to i...
https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.202
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness; Zeitz K, Kay R et. al.
Aug 6th, 2022 - The COVID-19 pandemic has seen health systems adapt and change in response to local and international experiences. This paper describes the experiences and learnings by the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) in managing a campaign style...
https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001323
Psychological Trauma : Theory, Research, Practice and Pol... Mellish S, Ryan JC et. al.
Aug 5th, 2022 - We investigated how Australian community members (N = 318) indirectly and/or directly exposed to Australia's 2019/20 bushfire season differed in terms of psychological distress, posttraumatic growth, coping, physical health, and COVID-19 anxiety. ...
https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.203
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness; Cannon CEB, Ferreira R et. al.
Aug 4th, 2022 - The objective of this research is to identify sociodemographic predictors of depression for a rural population in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to enhance mental health disaster preparedness. This study uses t-tests to differenti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9316425
International Journal of Environmental Research and Publi... Chen YF, Ma KC et. al.
Jul 28th, 2022 - Taipei has been ranked as the most vulnerable city to a wider combination of risks. Although the Special Education Law addresses the consideration of disaster preparedness for students with disabilities enrolling in Special Education Schools, more...
Guidelines 1 results
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094361
Chest Rubinson L, Hick JL et. al.
Aug 19th, 2008 - Plausible disasters may yield hundreds or thousands of critically ill victims. However, most countries, including those with widely available critical care services, lack sufficient specialized staff, medical equipment, and ICU space to provide ti...
Clinicaltrials.gov 5 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04874337
May 5th, 2021 - In order to respond correctly to disasters, medical teams must have the necessary training and sufficient equipment. However, in many countries, disaster nursing education is not adequately included in nursing curricula (Kalanlar and Kublai, 2015)...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03736434
Dec 19th, 2020 - The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled study is to adapt a previously tested intervention to improve resting state network and blood pressure in 36 (n=12 intervention; n=12 attention control; n = 12 control) Black and African American old...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01333241
Nov 7th, 2019 - Overweight/obesity and physical inactivity are two significant predictors of illness and death from cardiovascular (heart) disease (CVD) in Latina adults. These risk factors may be reduced or eliminated through prevention efforts that focus on hea...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00781313
Jul 20th, 2016 - This is a cross-sectional study. The subjects are the parent/parents/legal guardian, who will be coming to the clinic for their routine appointment for diabetes management. During the time in which the subject is waiting for the doctor or after th...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00123396
Apr 7th, 2015 - Background: Because of VA's long history in disaster preparedness, and the crucial role VA providers will play, the VA medical system has the potential to make an enormous difference in outcomes following a bioterror attack or infectious outbreak....
News 63 results
https://www.mdedge.com/chestphysician/article/253437/critical-care/what-covid-19-taught-us-challenge-maintaining
Kelly M. Griffin, MD, Jeffrey R. Dichter, MD, FCCP
Apr 12th, 2022 - In 2014, the Task Force for Mass Critical Care (TFMCC) published a CHEST consensus statement on disaster preparedness principles in caring for the critically ill during disasters and pandemics (Christian et al. CHEST.
https://www.staging.medscape.com/viewarticle/940062
Oct 30th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. NEW YORK (AP) — A president who downplayed the coronavirus threat, scorned masks and undercut scientists at every turn. Governors who resisted or ...
https://www.medpagetoday.com/dermatology/generaldermatology/88826
Sep 25th, 2020 - "We need to get to the point where we don't need a separate textbook for dermatology in Blacks." -- Chesahna Kindred, MD, of the Kindred Hair & Skin Center in Columbia, Maryland, on racial disparities in dermatology training. "I think it's better ...
https://www.staging.medscape.com/viewarticle/936210
Aug 24th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Nearly half of all US breast cancer survivors who responded to a recent Internet-based survey reported experiencing delays in cancer care in the e...
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/87271
Jun 25th, 2020 - MedPage Today's Greg Laub interviewed Irwin Redlener, MD, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University in New York City for his thoughts on wearing masks to reduce transmission of COVID-19. Following is a transc...
