Thirty-five Years of Disaster-Medicine Studies Experience from

0,78
MB KAMEDO’s operations 1963–1998

140
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3523
ID National Board of Health and Welfare

2001
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Contents

Foreword .3

Contents 5

KAMEDO – An Organisation for Disaster-medicine Studies

History ..7

Focus of activities 8

Experience in brief ..11

Natural disasters

Storms, hurricanes and floods 16

Landslides, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ..17

Studies conducted .19

Experience 20

Fires and explosions

Injuries to people ..36

Studies and compilations of facts .38

Experience 41

Ionising radiation

Definitions of units ..58

General ..58

Injuries to human beings ..61

Studies and compilations of facts .63

Experience 64

Chemical disasters

General ..71

Hazardous substances .71

War and terrorist attacks ..72

Studies and compilations of facts .73

Experience 75

Air accidents

Military aviation 85

Civil aviation ..85

Studies conducted .86

Experience 86

Accidents at sea

General ..94

Civilian operations ..94

Military operations ..95

Studies carried out 96

Experience 96

Train and car accidents

General 103

Studies conducted ..103

Experience .105

Epidemics

General 114

Studies conducted ..114

Experience .115

War and terrorist attacks

General 118

Wartime medical care ..118

Studies conducted ..119

Experience .120

KAMEDO-reports in Swedish 131

KAMEDO-reports, Summaries and complete reports in English .. 137