This chapter focuses on the emerging and established methods and concepts in the management of mass casualties due to natural and man-made disasters and the difficulties in applying these to the healthcare dispensation in the developing world.

This chapter focuses on developing a resource-based triage tool acceptable to all hospitals in a region and a region-wide approach to surge capacity as disaster planning strategies for neonatal intensive care unit patients.

This book chapter aims to provide a conceptual basis for the use of point-of-care (POC) testing, and lays the fundamental groundwork for transitioning to a new evidence-based approach where POC testing will be used outside the hospital environment for screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring...

This book chapter first describes the context in which disaster response planning occurs. It next discusses the systems, procedures and competencies that facilitate the ability of hospitals and medical staff to adapt to the circumstances and consequences encountered when responding to a disaster....

This book chapter attempts to review the aspects of in-hospital mass casualty incidents (MCI) process control and possible pitfalls in management based on literature reviews and the authors' experiences at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre at Ein Karem (the only level one trauma centre...