Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Disaster Management: From Prehospital to Hospital Care and Beyond

Part I Prehospital Emergency Services
1 Principles of Disaster Medicine 
Emmanouil Pikoulis, Anastasia Pikouli, and Eleni Pavlidou
2 The Role of the First Responder 
Dimitrios Jannussis, Georgia Mpompetsi, and Kollaras Vassileios
3 Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation, Pain Relief and Stabilization
Maria Diakomi
4 Resuscitation in Limited Resources Environments
Theodoros Xanthos and Athanasios Chalkias
5 Anesthesia for Critically Injured in Limited Resources
Environments 
Theodosios Saranteas, Iosifina Koliantzaki, Paraskeui Matsota,
and Georgia Kostopanagiotou
6 Media and Disaster Scene Management 
Theomary Karamanis
7 Triage and Transport of Casualties in the First Response Phase
Panagiotis V. Koukopoulos and Dionysios Koufoudakis
8 Medical Evacuation of Emergency Affected Persons
Kenan Yusif-zade
9 Ultrasound in Disasters and Austere Environments
Jay Doucet
Part II Hospital Response
10 Basics of Hospital Response 
Christos Christou
11 The Art of Triage 
Ari Leppäniemi
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12 Injuries and Scoring Systems 
Gennaro Perrone, Elena Bonati, Antonio Tarasconi,
Harishine K. Abongwa, and Fausto Catena
13 Wound Care Management, Non-penetrating
Injuries,
and Wounds Penetrating into Body Cavities 
Nelson Olim
14 Head Injuries 
Freiderikos Sotiriou, Panagiotis Papadopoulos-Manolarakis,
Stefanos Korfias, and Andreas Pikoulis
15 Eye and Maxillofacial Injuries 
Marilita M. Moschos
16 Neck Injuries 
Antonios Athanasiou
17 Thoracic Trauma 
Christo Kole, Michail Vailas, Nikolaos Koliakos,
and Dimitrios Schizas
18 Basics of Trauma Management Abdominal Trauma
George Tsoulfas
19 Injuries to the Urinary Tract 
Michael Chrisofos
20 Blunt Abdominal Trauma 
Konstantinos Nastos
21 Blast Injuries: Tips, Evaluation, and Management
Yoram Kluger, Hany Bahouth, and Assaf Harbi
22 Basics of Trauma Management: Crush Injuries
Nikoletta Dimitriou
23 Missile and Fragment Injuries
Petros M. Kouridakis, Andreas Pikoulis, Fotios Stavratis,
and Charalampos Theodoridis
24 Pelvic Injuries and Spinal Injuries
Olga Savvidou, Angelos Kaspiris, and Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos
25 Burn Management
Gerasimos Tsourouflis, Andreas Pikoulis, and Nikos Pararas
26 Endovascular Damage Control and Management
of Vascular Injuries
Efthymios D. Avgerinos
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27 Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
Due to Rapid-Onset Natural Disasters 
Paul Brady, Shishir Rao, and Panagiotis Varelas
28 Hemorrhage Control
David L. Carter, Patrick D. Melmer, and Christoph R. Kaufmann
29 Trauma Management in Children 
Elias Degiannis and Aidona Tsepelaki
30 Trauma Management in Pregnant Women 
Elias Degiannis and Aidona Tsepelaki
31 Blood Transfusion in Trauma
Panteleimon Vassiliu
Part III Management of Specific Incidents
32 The Acute Care Surgeon in Pandemics:
Lessons from COVID-19 
Amy E. Liepert and Jay Doucet
33 Natural Disasters: Medical Management
Athanasios Kalogeropoulos and Anastasia Pikouli
34 Natural Disasters: Mapping and Evaluating Incidents
Efthimis Lekkas, Emmanouil Andreadakis, Michalis Diakakis,
Spyridon Mavroulis, and Varvara Antoniou
35 CBRNE and Decontamination
Bernd Domres, Yasmeen M. Taalab, and Norman Hecker
36 Medical Care during Civil Unrest, Protests
and Mass Demonstrations 
Frederick Lough
37 Management of Combat Casualties 
Kyle Remick and Eric Elster
38 Incidents Caused by Terrorism 
Morgan P. McMonagle
39 The Role of the Crowds in Managing Disasters:
Toward a Bottom-Up Participatory Approach
Korinna-Zoi Karamagkioli, Vassileios Tokakis, Anastasia Pikouli,
and Evika Karamagioli
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Part IV After the Disaster
40 Infectious Diseases Outbreaks Following Natural Disasters:
Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Control 
Eleni Kakalou and Costas Tsiamis
41 Basic Management of Dead Disaster Victims 
Dimitrios Papakonstantinou, Pavlos Patapis, Nikos Machairas,
and Evangelos Misiakos
42 Disaster-Induced Psychological Trauma:
Supporting Survivors and Responders 
Anna Polemikou
43 Psychological Support in Times of Crisis and Natural Disasters
Aikaterini Lampropoulou, Chryse Hatzichristou, and Spyros Tadaros
Part V Evaluation, Ethical Issues, Education and Research
44 Errors of Disaster Health Management:
Health Care System Errors, Prehospital and Hospital
Emergency Medical Service 
George Charalambous
45 Current Ethical Dilemmas and Code of Conduct in Disasters
Boris E. Sakakushev
46 The Importance of Education and Training
in Disaster Management: An Overview 
Aristomenis Exadaktylos
47 The Value of Training: Debriefing 
Monika Brodmann Maeder
48 Medical Education: Modern Methods and Alternative
Methods to Animal Procedures 
Apostolos Papalois and Maria-Anna Tsoutsou
49 Leadership and Management in Disasters–Command,
Control, Coordination, Communication 
Efstratios (Steve) Photiou