Presentation
Mass fatalities can present the forensic anthropologist and forensic pathologist with a different set of challenges to those presented by a single fatality. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Entire Body System
- Collapse
Families who were moments ago shopping in strip malls are now trapped beneath several tons of steel beams and debris, with friends nearby struggling to survive inside a collapsed movie theatre. [teex.org]
Due to the dangers of additional mudslides and collapse of the entire slope, the rescue workers were withdrawn. The 16 miners were later declared dead by a Court Order after a full investigation into the disaster was completed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Janeiro, Brazil 2019-0151 Floods and strong winds; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 2019-0158 Floods and landslides; Colombia 2019-0159 Floods: Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China (P Rep) 2019-9145 Drought; Kenya Technological disasters: 2019-0157 Collapse [emdat.be]
We saw this during the Olympics when the security contractor effectively collapsed and the army had to come in. [theguardian.com]
- Fever
CASE: A 53-year-old Japanese male visited our hospital with symptoms of fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and altered mental status, but not with respiratory manifestations. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, tidal waves and infernos. [stuttgart.armymwr.com]
Common characteristic clinical findings are acute onset of fever with maculopapular rash, arthralgia, or conjunctivitis. Other commonly reported symptoms include myalgia and headache. [nursingworld.org]
Within this period, extensive rainfall were received for Blantyre, Chikwawa and Nsanje from the Department of… On 21 January 2019, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared an outbreak of Lassa fever following an increase in the number of [reliefweb.int]
- Weakness
Also regarding concurrent validity, weak to moderate positive correlations were observed between the KCES-D and the trauma-related measures. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Hurricane Katrina turned into a catastrophe in New Orleans because of a combination of extremely heavy weather – possibly linked to climate change – and weak and neglected public infrastructure. [theguardian.com]
But SSPEED thinks that would have some weaknesses. In a report released Tuesday, it calls for a more elaborate system, including further lines of defense closer to the ship channel. The plan would top out at more than $10 billion. [theatlantic.com]
The accident exposed "certain weaknesses" in Japan's regulatory framework, with responsibilities divided among a number of bodies. [world-nuclear.org]
- El Salvador
Salvador Technological disasters: 2015-0319 Collapse of a building; Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau 2015-0320 Train accident; Madhya Prades, India 2015-0321 Collision between two buses; Khabarovsk, Russia Week 31-2015: July 27 - August 02 Natural disasters: [emdat.be]
Cardiovascular
- Hypotension
IntroductionEmergency physicians are using bolus-dose vasopressors to temporize hypotensive patients until more definitive blood pressure support can be established. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Skin
- Eruptions
Various phenomena like earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, tsunamis, and cyclones are all natural disasters that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year [en.wikipedia.org]
Natural disasters: including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcano eruptions that have immediate impacts on human health and secondary impacts causing further death and suffering from (for example) floods, landslides, fires, tsunamis. [wcpt.org]
Tax relief for victims of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in Hawaii that began on May 3, 2018, see news release. [irs.gov]
He’ll pay for that in Act Two, when earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves tip the Barracuda upside-down, a la “The Poseidon Adventure,” with referential nods to other 1970s disaster movies like “The Towering Inferno,” “Earthquake,” and “Airport [variety.com]
Natural disasters: Natural disasters include things such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, landslides and hurricanes. [disasterium.com]
Psychiatrical
- Fear
In particular, objective exposure was linked to greater increases in Activity Level but decreases in High-Intensity Pleasure, Approach, and Fearfulness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
— Mekita Rivas, Glamour, "20 Years Later, Felicity Is Still The Ultimate Fall Fashion Lookbook," 28 Sep. 2018 Fears of disaster may seem out of place in an economy that remains one of the fastest growing on earth, expanding by 7.4 percent last year. [merriam-webster.com]
‘Fears may be exaggerated, but unless companies are completely open, they face potential PR disasters ahead.’ ‘The university had a public relations disaster on its hands.’ [en.oxforddictionaries.com]
Given Trump’s business record, and Pence’s role in the administration, there is every reason to fear that his big-ticket infrastructure spending could become a Katrina-like kleptocracy, a government of thieves, with the Mar-a-Lago set helping themselves [theguardian.com]
Neurologic
- Tremor
Tony explains away persistent tremors as West Side Highway construction, ignoring the professor's warning that mass destruction is approaching via an imminent geological event. [hollywoodreporter.com]
The San Andreas is responsible for some of the nation’s most famous tremors—from the San Francisco quake of 1906 to the 1989 Loma Prieta quake—as well as the recent, eponymous blockbuster movie. [theatlantic.com]
Treatment
Youth ages 8-13 (n = 6) who met diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder were provided the individual StArT treatment in their school. Youth were assessed at pretreatment, weekly during treatment, and at posttreatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Prognosis
Abstract Breast cancer patients may present with patient delay or experience provider delay-2 factors which can lead to a late-stage diagnosis and poor prognosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Epidemiology
Disaster Epidemiology Training HSB provides disaster epidemiology training to state and local public health emergency response staff by request. [cdc.gov]
Our results suggest that the earthquake increased the reported cases of Zika by 0.509 per epidemiologic week (data per 10,000 population), and we argue that the destroyed built environment along with other factors created a disease focus, where the virus [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Find out more Websites available: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) - EM/DAT International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) [ifrc.org]
Pathophysiology
The case highlights the dangers of administering drugs that prolong the QT interval in patients with complete atrioventricular block, and we discuss the underlying pathophysiological recipe that can lead to a potential arrhythmic disaster. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Prevention
Author information 1 Applied Science and Evaluation Branch, Division of State and Local Readiness, Office of Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]