American Journal of Disaster Medicine

About the Journal

American Journal of Disaster Medicine deals with all aspects of mass casualty medicine and its public health implications.

With the publication of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine, for the first time, comes real guidance in this important medical specialty, from the foremost experts in mass casualty medicine; including a deadly cocktail of catastrophic events like blast wounds and post explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and psychological trauma that comes in the wake of natural and man-made disasters as well as disease outbreak.

The journal has one goal: to provide physicians and medical professionals the latest research and essential informational tools they need as they seek to manage the complexities of emergency medical and trauma skills with crisis management in a mass casualty environment.

Peer reviewed and designed to meet the formidable medical challenges in a post 9/11, post Katrina world, the American Journal of Disaster Medicine addresses all aspects of this important discipline and does so under the watchful eye of a internationally recognized editorial review board led by Editor-in-Chief Susan M.Briggs, MD, MPH, Director, International Trauma and Disaster Institute, 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, the journal will be interdisciplinary and have a national and international focus in view of the global threats of today's complex disasters.

Each issue of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine will offer physicians and medical professionals, an academic forum on topics as wide ranging as these:

Medical preparation for mass gathering events
Triage in disaster medicine both extra hospital and in hospital
Toxicological disaster
Ethics in disaster medicine
Confined space and medical training
Military triage translating to civilian disasters
Medical response to collapsed structures
Traumatic amputations
Open brain injuries
Effectively treating large numbers of injured people
Evaluating patients for exposure to various chemical, biological and radioactive agents
indexed in PubMed/Medline
peer-reviewed
disaster and emergency medicine
interdisciplinary
natural disasters
disease outbreak
biological weapons contamination
psychological trauma
pandemic flu
military triage

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Current Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2024): Spring

Published: 04/19/2024

Editorial

Improve disaster response by planning for and logistically supporting acute exacerbations of chronic diseases

Michael D. Owens, DO, MPH, CEM

87-89
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Articles

Disaster healthcare disparities solutions: Part 1—Preparation

Angela Pettit Cornelius, MD, MA, Douglas Mark Char, MD, Leah Gustafson Ista, MD, MSPH, Samantha Noll, MD, Frank Quintero, DO, MBA, Heather Rybasack-Smith, MD, MPH, Jennie Wang, DO, MPH, Robert P. Weinberg, DO, JD, MMSc, Sharon E. Mace, MD

91-100
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Disaster healthcare disparities solutions: Part 2—Response

Angela Pettit Cornelius, MD, MA, Douglas Mark Char, MD, Leah Gustafson Ista, MD, MSPH, Samantha Noll, MD, Frank Quintero, DO, MBA, Heather Rybasack-Smith, MD, MPH, Jennie Wang, DO, MPH, Robert P. Weinberg, DO, JD, MMSc, Sharon E. Mace, MD

101-108
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Disaster healthcare disparities solutions: Part 3—Recovery and mitigation

Angela Pettit Cornelius, MD, MA, Douglas Mark Char, MD, Leah Gustafson Ista, MD, MSPH, Samantha Noll, MD, Frank Quintero, DO, MBA, Heather Rybasack-Smith, MD, MPH, Jennie Wang, DO, MPH, Robert P. Weinberg, DO, JD, MMSc, Sharon E. Mace, MD

109-117
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Surgical capacity is disaster preparedness: A scoping review of how surgery and anesthesiology departments responded to COVID-19

Matthew T. Hey, MD, Madeleine Carroll, MD, Lili B. Steel, BSc, Mayte Bryce-Alberti, MD, Radzi Hamzah, MD, MPH, Rachel E. Wittenberg, MPH, Anam Ehsan, MBBS, Hodan Abdi, MD, Latoya Stewart, MD, Raina Parikh, MD, Raisa Rauf, MD Candidate, Jacqueline Cellini, MLIS, MPH, Kiana Winslow, BA, Isaac G. Alty, MD, Craig D. McClain, MD, MPH, Geoffrey A. Anderson, MD, MPH, FACS

119-130
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Stop the Bleed® in medical schools: Early advocacy and promising results

Jeremy Fridling, MD, Brad Chernock, MD, Tessa Goebel, MD, Alyssa Tutunjian, MD, Adam D. Fox, DO, Jane Keating, MD, Lenworth Jacobs, MD, MPH

131-137
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Terrorist attacks against healthcare facilities involving hostages

Reed Macy, MD, Greg Jasani, MD, Reem Alfalasi, MD, Garrett Cavaliere, DO, Benjamin J. Lawner, DO, MS

139-144
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The Jerusalem tribune collapse incident: Challenges in the management of a pediatric mass casualty incident

Naama Pines, MD, Saar Hashavya, MD, Miklosh Bala, MD, Kedar Asaf, MD, Lea Ohana-Sarna-Cahan, MD, Giora Weiser, MD, Bat El Shalem, David Rekthman, MD, Shaden Salameh, MD, MHA

145-150
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Investigating health and treatment measures during the Arbaeen procession 2022: A qualitative study

Saeed Nazari, PhD, Hassan Araghizadeh, MD, Afzal Shamsi, PhD, Mahdi Ghorbani, PhD, Mahboobeh Afzali, PhD, Hosein Mahdian, PhD

151-160
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Terrorist attacks in Iran: A counter-terrorism medicine analysis

Hossein Armin, PhD, Mahmoudreza Peyravi, PhD, Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, PhD, Hadi Mahmoodi, PhD, Iman Shakibkhah, PhD, Esmaeil Ahmadi, PhD

161-174
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