Emergency Management and Telemedicine for Everyone

About the Book

This book discusses the fundamentals of emergency management. The four phases of emergency management are discussed in detail throughout the book. These phases are mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery with respect to floods, earthquakes, storms, and other man made as well as natural disasters. This book uses easy to understand examples that also include populations such as senior citizens and the disabled. There are numerous chapters that show the progression of emergency management equipment and how it was used through the last four centuries in the United States. There is also a section on the atomic age which explains radiation, fallout, and some warning systems that are in place to warn the public in case of nuclear accidents such as Three Mile Island. There are also some never seen photos of Nagasaki shortly after the blast in World War Two. We will also meet Uncle Bob who sometimes worked in the hot zone and was later electrocuted, injured his spine, and was in a coma for a while. We will also discuss some of the issues with electrical burns too. Later chapters include the topic of telemedicine and the technology used in telemedicine. Telemedicine becomes important to serve rural communities around the world where people may not have access to quality health care usually available in cities.

About the Author

Dr. Eamon Doherty has taught Emergency Management Technology at the undergraduate level as well as a variety of graduate level computer security and computer seizure and examination classes. Gerard C. Muench, Jr., BA, CPM, MPA, NREMT-P, Gerard (Rod) Muench has more then twenty years of experience administrating various aspects of emergency medical services, and twenty two years as a paramedic. Rod’s experience includes being a mobile intensive care unit clinical coordinator, paramedic educator, EMS manager, the New Jersey State EMS Director, and now the Vice President of LifeSavers, Inc. where he is a consultant for public access defibrillation
programs.  Mr. Muench is a currently certified and practicing National Registry Paramedic in New Jersey. Thomas John Walsh is a former corrections officer who is finishing up a master of administrative science degree and is presently a software analyst.

Gary Stephenson is a graduate of the University of Sunderland and a health infomatics professional in the United Kingdom and has done consulting to the National Health Service. Gary is also a coauthor of “Computer Recreation for Everyone” and “Computer Security and Tele-robotics for Everyone.”