Disaster Series: Elements of a Disaster

Author:

van Stralen Daved1,D. McKay Sean2,A. Mercer Thomas3

Affiliation:

1. Loma Linda University

2. Response Solutions within Nonlinear Complex Environment

3. United States Navy (Retired)

Abstract

A disaster is an environmental disruption of medical care, a victim generator that disrupts the ability to treat multiple patients. Death can come from physiological, physical, social, or behavioral threats within the disaster environment. Legal or administrative definitions of disasters are necessary for out-of-area resource allocation. Topological dynamical systems describe the continuous transformations within the topological space of a disaster. A functional description of disasters focuses on the damage produced by the disaster rather than how the damage was caused. An ecological description underscores how damage creates a new environment within our familiar, formerly safe work environment. The disaster environment can have a latent effect on physiology in several ways. The disaster forms an embedded problem, an ill-structured problem embedded in the environment. We extend operations into disasters by developing capabilities rather than assessing risk.

Publisher

Loma Linda Publishing Company

Subject

General Medicine

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