Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Major Earthquakes and Cascading Events: Potential Health and Medical Implications

10/12/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 10/2018. This 56-page from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides an overview of the potential significant health and medical response and recovery needs facing areas affected by a major earthquake with or without additional cascading events. The focus is on human health and the healthcare system response to earthquakes, with a discussion of overarching, immediate, short-term, and long-term considerations for healthcare emergency planners. (PDF)

Jacksonville Shooting: Fire Department Response to the Incident

10/12/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 10/2018. This four-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) is the transcript of an interview with an emergency medical specialist about the Jacksonville Fire Department's response to an active shooter incident on August 25, 2018. Since this incident, the department has installed a response package in its computer-aided dispatch system that would send a sizable contingent of resources to an active shooter call. (PDF)

Whole Blood Transfusion

10/12/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Army Medical Department, Medical Research and Materiel Command, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR). Published: 5/15/2018. This 39-page Clinical Practice Guideline provides the rationale and guidelines for whole blood transfusion, including but not limited to product definitions, indications, collection, storage, testing, transfusion, and documentation. Severely injured combat casualties requiring transfusion have a significant mortality rate and have the greatest potential to benefit from early and appropriate transfusion strategies. (PDF)

Catastrophic Incident Response Annex

10/12/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Illinois Department of Public Health. Published: 3/2018. The purpose of this 39-page document is to support the Illinois Department of Public Health Emergency Support Function (ESF)-8 Plan by providing a functional annex for all stakeholders involved in an emergency response within the state and/or adjacent states in order to provide crisis care to patients in Illinois during a catastrophic incident. It guides the state-level response and provides local medical services guidance on the care of patients, including crisis care and resource allocation. (PDF)

Global Warming of 1.5 °C

10/11/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Published: 10/8/2018. This special report details the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. It discusses how any increase in global warming is projected to affect human health, with primarily negative consequences, and adaptation is expected to be more challenging for ecosystems, food, and health systems at 2°C of global warming than for 1.5°C. (PDF)