Natural disasters and the lung

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 386-395

  Robinson, Bruce ^a,b   Alatas, Mohammad Fahmi ^a,d   Robertson, Andrew ^c   Steer, Henry ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^e Bristol Medical School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Disaster; Infection; Inhalation; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; IMIPENEM; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROWDING; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUST; FIRE; FLAIL CHEST; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAZE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTUBATION; LUNG BURN; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INJURY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MELIOIDOSIS; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NATURAL DISASTER; NEAR DROWNING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; RIB FRACTURE; SMOG; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THERMAL INJURY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TSUNAMI; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOLCANIC ASH;

ASIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG INJURY; NEAR DROWNING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 79953269513     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.01923.x     Document Type: Review

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