TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of Diabetic Surgical Patients in a Deployed Field Hospital
T2 - A Model for Acute Non-Communicable Disease Care in Disaster
AU - McDermott, Kathleen M.
AU - Hardstaff, Ruth M.
AU - Alpen, Sophie
AU - Read, David J.
AU - Coatsworth, Nicholas R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2017.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Sudden onset disasters (SODs) have affected over 1.5 billion of the world's population in the past decade. During the same time, developing nations have faced a sustained increase in the burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) with extra pressure placed on health systems. The combined increase in SODs and the NCD epidemic facing the world's most disaster-prone nations will present new challenges to emergency medical teams (EMTs) during disaster response. This report details the experience as an EMT during the Typhoon Haiyan disaster of 2013, with particular reference to the challenges of diabetic management in a surgical field hospital. The incidence of diabetes in this surgical cohort exceeded that of the population by a factor of four. The steps to prepare for and treat diabetes in the field provide a useful model for the management of NCD in the deployed field hospital environment after a disaster. McDermott KM, Hardstaff RM, Alpen S, Read DJ, Coatsworth NR.
AB - Sudden onset disasters (SODs) have affected over 1.5 billion of the world's population in the past decade. During the same time, developing nations have faced a sustained increase in the burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) with extra pressure placed on health systems. The combined increase in SODs and the NCD epidemic facing the world's most disaster-prone nations will present new challenges to emergency medical teams (EMTs) during disaster response. This report details the experience as an EMT during the Typhoon Haiyan disaster of 2013, with particular reference to the challenges of diabetic management in a surgical field hospital. The incidence of diabetes in this surgical cohort exceeded that of the population by a factor of four. The steps to prepare for and treat diabetes in the field provide a useful model for the management of NCD in the deployed field hospital environment after a disaster. McDermott KM, Hardstaff RM, Alpen S, Read DJ, Coatsworth NR.
KW - diabetes
KW - emergency medical teams
KW - non-communicable disease
KW - sudden onset disaster
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85026453490&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1049023X17006707
DO - 10.1017/S1049023X17006707
M3 - Article
SN - 1049-023X
VL - 32
SP - 657
EP - 661
JO - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
JF - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
IS - 6
ER -