Bioterrorism Resources for the Health Care Community

Medical Management - Handbooks/Textbooks/Reports (full-text)

• Biological Threats and Terrorism: Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities: Workshop Summary (2002) - Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
• Breathing Easier? The Report of The Century Foundation Working Group on Bioterrorism Preparedness - The Century Foundation, 1/13/05
• Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response - 1999, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
• Community Based Mass Prophylaxis: A Planning Guide for Public Health Preparedness - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
• Countering Bioterrorism: The Role of Science and Technology - Institute of Medicine
• Hospital Preparedness: Most Urban Hospitals Have Emergency Plans but Lack Certain Capacities for Bioterrorism Response - Highlights of GAO-03-924, a report to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations; and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, August 2003 -- General Accounting Office
• Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, 2007 - Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management, National Research Council
• Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare In: Textbooks of Military Medicine, 2007, published by the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, United States of America.
• Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook, Fourth Edition, February 2001, U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
• Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook, Third Edition, August 1999, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Chemical Casualty Care Division.
• Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Handbook, 2003, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Military Medical Operations Office.
• Planning Guidance for the Health System Response to a Bioevent in the National Department of Human Services, Planning, and Public Safety.
• Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
• Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public's Health, Board on Global Health & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. National Academy Press, 2005
• Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
  Provides guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear (rad/nuc) events.
• Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorismm 2004, The Trust for America's Health
• Seeking Security: Pathogens, Open Access, and Genome Databases (2004) - National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences Press
• Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties, July 2000, Headquarters Departments of The Army, The Navy, and the Air Force, and Commandant, Marine Corps.

Coping Resources

• The American Academy of Pediatrics has information and advice on communicating with children about disasters.
• The New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) site has information on dealing with traumatic events.

Organizations

• American Academy of Family Physicians - btresponse.org - resources for medical professionals.
• American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine - Bioterrorism Information Center
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology - Bioterrorism Resources

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