Chapter 5 – Intravenous Thrombolysis
Abstract The only treatment that has been proven to improve outcome after ischemic stroke is to reperfuse the brain by removing the arterial obstruction. All animal and clinical studies show…
Chapter 7 – Neurological Deterioration in Acute Ischemic Stroke
Abstract Although, classically, stroke symptoms are maximal at onset and patients gradually recover over days, weeks, and months, patients sometimes deteriorate. People have termed the phenomenon stroke progression, stroke in…
Chapter 6 – Endovascular Therapy
Abstract When used alone, intravenous and intra-arterial thrombolysis have yielded low recanalization rates of proximal large-vessel occlusions (LVO). The endovascular trials utilizing first-generation devices such as the Merci retriever and…
Chapter 33 – Legal Issues in Field Hospital Deployments
Abstract The deployment of field hospitals to meet the medical needs of the affected population is a common occurrence in the aftermath of many emergencies. Their use may give rise…
Chapter 32 – Ethical Dilemmas in Field Hospital Deployments
Abstract Disasters are inevitable. Health-care providers operating in disaster zones must make decisions that are unique and different from those encountered in their routine health-care work environment. Treatment decisions made…
Chapter 31 – Long-term Deployment and Continuity of Care
Abstract The world’s most fragile states contain 38% of the world’s population and are among the world’s poorest. In these states up to 10% of all deaths and 20% of…
Chapter 29 – Forensic Medicine and Victim Identification in the Field Hospital Setting
Abstract Field hospitals may be deployed within the borders of the jurisdiction of the care provider or, upon official request, within a different, often remote, jurisdiction such as during humanitarian…
Chapter 30 – Prehospital Care in the Disaster Setting
Abstract This chapter describes the role of prehospital teams deployed to large scale disaster events. It describes two categories of type I emergency medical teams (EMT), and provides an overview…
Chapter 28 – Nursing in a Field Hospital
Abstract Nurses routinely provide essential and integral core functions in the field hospital environment, such as daily operational service delivery planning and management, clinical governance and scope of practice supervision,…
Chapter 24 – Intensive Care Unit Buildup Within a Field Hospital Setting
Abstract The place of the critical care unit activation, within a field hospital, deployed to disaster area is challenged. Criteria used in the decision-making of activation are facility capabilities, combined…
