Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations: The Work of Médecins Sans Frontières

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Release: 2011-05-25
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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ISBN/ASIN: 1461105951
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Medical Innovation in Humanitarian Situations explores how the particular style of humanitarian action practiced by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has stayed in line with the standards in scientifically advanced countries while also leading to significant improvements in the medical care delivered to people in crisis. Through a series of case studies – from the development of logistical capacities and satellite organizations to adapting innovative treatments for diseases such as cholera, sleeping sickness, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and malnutrition in war-torn or impoverished settings – the authors reflect on how medical aid workers dealt with the incongruity of practicing conventional evidence-based medicine in contexts that require unconventional approaches. These reflections show how humanitarian medicine does not need to be second-rate, and that innovations in medicine are possible in the most unlikely of contexts. Examining medical innovations of the past ca Download Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations: A Letter Report Pdf

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Release: 2009-09-23
Publisher: National Academies Press
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ISBN/ASIN: 0309144302
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The influenza pandemic caused by the 2009 H1N1 virus underscores the immediate and critical need to prepare for a public health emergency in which thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people suddenly seek and require medical care in communities across the United States. Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations draws from a broad spectrum of expertise--including state and local public health, emergency medicine and response, primary care, nursing, palliative care, ethics, the law, behavioral health, and risk communication--to offer guidance toward establishing standards of care that should apply to disaster situations, both naturally occurring and man-made, under conditions in which resources are scarce. This book explores two case studies that illustrate the application of the guidance and principles laid out in the report. One scenario focuses on a gradual-onset pandemic flu. The other scenario focuses on an earthquake Download Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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