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American Journal of Disaster Medicine, a new publication will start in 2006. This publication is an outgrowth of our Journal of Emergency Management and is designed to meet the formidable challenges faced by physicians and medical professionals in a post 9/11, Katrina world, according to publisher Richard A. DeVito, Jr. With publication of American Journal of Disaster Medicine, comes guidance in this new specialty from the country's foremost experts in areas most physicians and medical professionals have never seen ... a deadly cocktail of catastrophic medical events like blast wounds and post explosion injuries, biological weapons contamination and mass physical and psychological trauma. The new journal addresses all aspects of this newly designated specialty from acts of terrorism to natural disasters and disease outbreaks. It does so under the leadership of a nationally recognized editorial staff and review board headed up by Editor-in-Chief Susan M. Briggs, MD, Attending Surgeon General, Trauma and Vascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA and Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Under the guidance of Dr. Briggs who is also the Supervising Medical Officer, International Medical Surgical Response Teams, National Disaster Medical System (Homeland Security), the journal will be interdisciplinary and have a national and international focus in view of the global threats of today's complex disasters. As she points out: "Too many of today's journals are focused on a narrow threat range (i.e. biological) or a narrow audience (i.e. public health only). Today's disasters are unpredictable which is why the focus of disaster preparedness and response is the 'ALL HAZARDS' approach involving the entire spectrum of disaster responders. As one looks at the spectrum of global threats (ex. Terrorism, pandemic flu, etc), the global focus is important and timely." American Journal of Disaster Medicine is designed to aid physicians and medical professionals as they seek to combine emergency medical and trauma skills with crisis management and new forms of triage. It will offer an academic forum on topics as wide ranging as medical preparation for mass gathering events, triage in disaster medicine both out of hospital and in hospital, toxicological disaster, ethics in disaster medicine, confined space and medical training, medical response to collapsed structures, traumatic amputations, open brain injuries, effectively treating large numbers of injured people, and evaluating patients for exposure to various chemical, biological and radioactive agents. The new journal website is http://www.disastermedicinejournal.com/; subscription and submission information is available there.
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