The second revised, expanded and updated edition of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Since the first edition was written in 2002, there have been seismic changes following on from the terrorist assault on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The Middle East, the Far East and parts of Africa are convulsed by conflict, much of them verging on civil war. Further, natural disasters of staggering scale have occurred since the first edition âEUR"Tsunamis in South East Asia, Earthquakes in Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan and a monster Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The working environment for the prospective humanitarian volunteer has changed forever.

"A 'how-to' book for medical aid workers - doctors, nurses and paramedics - working in hostile environments (natural disasters, man-made disasters, conflict in all its forms and remote or austere industrial settings). This manual provides information on what is going on, how to get involved, how to get ready, guidance on what to do out there, and how to get home bridging the fields of medicine, nursing international relations, politics, economics and history."

MEDICAL INTERVENTION & THE WORLD WE LIVE IN: The new millennium - globalisation & conflict.- The world since 9/11 & 7/7.- New paradigms.- Spectrum of conflict.- Natural & Man made disasters.- Remote, austere & resource limited (Oil & Gas, oceans, mountains & desert) .- The players NGOs, IGOs & the Military.- Medical/health intervention.- LIVING & WORKING: Getting involved.- Planning.- Clothing, immunisations, personal equipment.- Hazards - Staying safe.- Mines.- Personal security.- Communications/GPS/Telemed.- Psychological aspects.- Taking care of the home front, job protection.- CONFLICT, DISASTER & PUBLIC HEALTH: Displacement & migration.- Refugees & IDPs.- Health threats & principles of intervention.- Protection-based physical planning.- International Humanitarian Law.- Conflict recovery.- CLINICAL CARE: Pre-Hospital planning.- Aviation medicine.- Communications Technology.- Capability & applied communications.- Acute medical problems.- Women's health.- Children's health.- Trauma, surgical & related conditions. Introduction.Orthopaedics & Trauma.Ballistics & Blast.Abdominal & Acute Surgical Emergencies.Dental & ENT. Anaesthesia & Analgesia.- CASE STUDIES: Multi-agency/multiple angle perspectives.- Tsunamis (Sri Lanka) .- Earthquake (Turkey, Iran & Pakistan) .- Storms & Floods (New Orleans) .- Failed States.- The Middle East.- Recent conflicts.- Terrorism - 9/11, Madrid & 7/7.- CREDENTIALING, EDUCATION & TRAINING - THE DMCC EXAMINATION: Essential knowledge & skills.- Assessment of competency.- RESOURCES: Publications.- Checkists, Suppliers, & Specialist Advice.- Using the Internet.- 'AND FINALLY'