HANDBOOK FOR PANDEMIC AND MASS-CASUALTY PLANNING AND RESPONSE -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: The Context of Catastrophic Health Planning -- Medical Response to Major Incidents: A Standardized Postgraduate Course in Management and Performance in Major Incidents & Disasters -- Development of a European Training Curriculum for International Crisis Management (DITAC/European Research Project):One European Training Curriculum for Each Disaster-Necessary or Impossible? -- Pandemic Planning & Response -- Mass-Casualty Preparedness-How to Upgrade From Below: Our Experiences in Slovenia -- Education and Training for Major Incidents and Disasters: Croatia Case Study -- Cross-Disciplinary Competency and Professionalization in Disaster Medicine and Public Health -- Complex Humanitarian Emergencies-An Overview: Controversies and Future Perspectives -- The Hospital as the Weakest Link in Mass-Casualty Incidents -- Ethics and Medicine in Disasters and Mass-Casualty Incidents -- Croatia's State and Medical Authority for Health System Organizations -- Croatia: Community, Empowerment, Resiliency -- Section 2: Principles of Response to Catastrophes with Mass Casualties -- Basics of Terror Medicine -- Mass-Casualty Planning and Response -- Interoperability within Military Medical Forces in Contemporary NATO Operations -- The Complete Protection of a Combat Soldier -- Experience from Past Conflicts -- Triage Protocols for Critical-Care Patients in Disaster Conditions -- Development of Standards of Care for Polytrauma in Multiple-Casualty Incidents -- Treatment Algorithms and Hospital Triage in Mass-Casualty Incidents -- Guidelines for Limb Amputation and Reconstruction in Mass-Casualty Incidents -- Burn Injuries during Mass-Casualty Incidents -- Blast Injuries.

Section 3: Communication and Information Sharing -- Information Sharing in Practice and for Practice: Mass-Casualty Cases -- Communication between Emergency Medical Services and Media during Mass-Casualty Events in Croatia -- Just-in-Time Information -- Collaboration Topologies for Interdisciplinary and Interlevel Information Exchange -- Networks and Their Role in Counteracting Contemporary Global Threats: A New Model -- Architecture of R&D Project Management Systems at Medical Institutions -- Lessons Learned -- Lessons Learned -- Subject Index -- Author Index.