Essentials of Disaster Anesthesia

A disaster is by definition a situation in which the resources available do not match the demands of the population impacted. This often forces serious modifications in standards of best practice, all coping activities, and expected outcomes. Generally in most disasters, if assistance from outside is unavailable, mortality rates and disabilities are much higher than during crises which are met with adequate resources. “Disaster medicine” is population based, which is vastly different to...