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Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Management

1. Development of the Specialty of Emergency Medicine 2. National Accident Policy—A Strategic Essential in Trauma Care 3. Emergency Medical Services—Planning and Management 4. Emergency Medical Services Department— Planning and Management 5. Emergency Medicine Department— Operational Essentials for Effective Implementation 6. Emergency Care—An Art and Science 7. Pre-hospital Care 8. Ambulance Services 9. Air Medical Transport in India—Present Situation and the Future 10. Emergency Nursing—An Essential Requisite in EMS 11. Medical Record Documentation in EMS 12. Poison Control Centers and Medical Toxicology as a Subspecialty of Emergency Medicine 13. Triage—TheClinico-Managerial Challenge in Disaster Management 14. Emergency Medicine—Need for a Specialty 15. Recommended Curriculum for International EM Fellowship Program 16. Development of Course Curriculum for Immediate Care Providers 17. Public Relations in Emergency Department 18. Costing of Emergency Services 19. EMS—Legal and Ethical Issues 20. Ethics of Teamwork in Emergency and Disaster Management— The Centrality of Virtue 21. Organization and Management of Emergency Medical Relief for Train Accidents in India 22. Quality and EMS—Existing Issues and Future Dimensions 23. Operations Research and Continuous Quality Improvement— A Means End Relationship in EMS 24. Recent Advances and Futuristic Trends in EMS 25. Disaster Management—An Overview 26. Medical Disaster Plan—Strategic Essentials for Effective Implementation 27. Role of Various Agencies in Disaster Management 28. Telemedicine—Role in EMS and Disaster Management 29. Improvisation of Operation Theaters for Disaster and Emergency Management 30. Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare— Essentials for Effective Planning 31. Hospital Networking in Disaster Management 32. Public Health Issues in Disaster Management Bibliography