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Prehospital Medical Care in Disasters
32 slides available in English and Spanish
These slides deal with mass casualty management at the site of a disaster. It covers the command post, transportation, communications and triage.
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Hospital Care in Disaster Situations
39 slides; available in English and Spanish
This slide set presents the main components of a hospital disaster plan. It outlines the steps that hospitals can take during the preparedness phase, the warning phase when the hospital plan is put into effect, and the emergency phase when disaster victims begin to arrive.
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Disaster Reports: Earthquake in Mexico
39 slides; available in English and Spanish
These slides record the devastating earthquake that hit Mexico in September 1985. They illustrate aspects of structural damage in health facilities, search and rescue operations, and the huge quantities of relief supplies that overwhelmed authorities after the earthquake.
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Manual for Bacteriologic Analysis of Water in Disaster Situations
28 slides; available in English and Spanish
This demonstrates the membrane filter method using portable equipment as a means of detecting coliforms in water.
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Seguridad en hospitales (only in Spanish)
44 slides; available only in Spanish
These slides illustrate safety measures for hospitals and health centers in disaster situations. The accompanying guide provides steps for developing a hospital safety plan and determining the areas that the plan should cover.
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Terremotos y hospitales 1: efectos y medidas de emergencia (only in Spanish)
This slide program presents general information on the effects of earthquakes in terms of human and material losses and basic emergency procedures for hospitals in the event of a severe earthquake.
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Terremotos y hospitales 2: reducción del riesgo (only in Spanish)
This program presents measures for mitigating seismic risk to hospitals and decreasing the overall vulnerability of these facilities.
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Manejo de cadaveres en situación de desastres (only in Spanish)
This series addresses basic techniques for the transport, identification, temporary storage, and final disposal of cadavers in disaster situations.
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Simulacros hospitalarios (only in Spanish)
These slides review the essential elements for developing emergency simulations in hospital settings.
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Mental Health Care in Disaster Situations
Disasters generally cause some degree of psychosocial trauma in nearly all sectors of society. The psychological response in communities varies and changes with the passage of time. This slide set serves to make health professionals aware of certain expected patterns of emotional response in disaster situations in communities and measures that can be used to deal with them.
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Mitigación de desastres en instalaciones de salud (only in Spanish)
These slides provide practical information about basic aspects of disaster mitigation in health facilities. Focusing on seismic hazards, the slides address risk reduction in structural components of health facilities (including load-bearing elements such as columns, beams, walls, and foundations).
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Organizing Communities to Prepare for Emergencies
These slides are aimed at helping community leaders or facilitators to increase the level of community preparedness in the face of hazards.
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