New Professional Journal Launched To Address Disaster And Emergency Medicine

American Journal of Disaster
Medicine, a new publication will start in 2006. This publication is an
outgrowth of our Journal of Emergency Management and is designed to meet
the formidable challenges faced by physicians and medical professionals in
a post 9/11, Katrina world, according to publisher Richard A. DeVito, Jr.



With publication of American Journal of Disaster Medicine, comes
guidance in this new specialty from the country's foremost experts in areas
most physicians and medical professionals have never seen ... a deadly
cocktail of catastrophic medical events like blast wounds and post
explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and
psychological trauma.



The new journal addresses all aspects of this newly designated
specialty from acts of terrorism to natural disasters and disease
outbreaks. It does so under the leadership of a nationally recognized
editorial staff and review board headed up by Editor-in-Chief Susan M.
Briggs, MD, Attending Surgeon General, Trauma and Vascular Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA and Associate Professor of
Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Under the guidance of Dr. Briggs who is
also the Supervising Medical Officer, International Medical Surgical
Response Teams, National Disaster Medical System (Homeland Security), the
journal will be interdisciplinary and have a national and international
focus in view of the global threats of today's complex disasters. As she
points out:



"Too many of today's journals are focused on a narrow threat range
(i.e. biological) or a narrow audience (i.e. public health only). Today's
disasters are unpredictable which is why the focus of disaster preparedness
and response is the 'ALL HAZARDS' approach involving the entire spectrum of
disaster responders. As one looks at the spectrum of global threats (ex.
Terrorism, pandemic flu, etc), the global focus is important and timely."



American Journal of Disaster Medicine is designed to aid physicians and
medical professionals as they seek to combine emergency medical and trauma
skills with crisis management and new forms of triage. It will offer an
academic forum on topics as wide ranging as medical preparation for mass
gathering events, triage in disaster medicine both out of hospital and in
hospital, toxicological disaster, ethics in disaster medicine, confined
space and medical training, medical response to collapsed structures,
traumatic amputations, open brain injuries, effectively treating large
numbers of injured people, and evaluating patients for exposure to various
chemical, biological and radioactive agents.



The new journal website is disastermedicinejournal/;
subscription and submission information is available there.


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