Emergency and Disaster Medicine Management

June, 2012 systematic review, which sought to identify the best available evidence regarding strategies for allocating scarce resources during mass casualty events (MCEs).

Provides selected articles, from the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association on policy, preparedness, and disaster response. Also includes articles on search-and-rescue dogs.

Organized by specific hazards, including bioterrorism and chemical emergencies. Each part has information for professionals and for the general public. Recent Outbreaks and Incidents has an RSS feed for keeping up with the news.

Guide to free literature online- prepared by the National Library of Medicine

Activated to supply journal article and other resources in support of immediate disasters; only active in the case of a specific disaster.

Evidence Aid seeks to highlight which interventions work, which don’t work, which need more research, and which, no matter how well meaning, might be harmful; and to provide this information to agencies and people planning for, or responding to, disasters.

Provides the conceptual framework for coordination and guidance of HHS federal-level human services
for preparedness, response, and recovery for disasters and public health emergencies.

Dedicated to promoting the "Principles of Emergency Management" and representing those professionals whose goals are saving lives and protecting property and the environment during emergencies and disasters.

Find Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME), Emergency Medicine medical journal articles, MEDLINE, Emergency Medicine medical news, etc. Free registration required for access to some full text.

Created by ebrary, drawing on information from many government agencies, like FEMA and the CDC and more.

The Pan American Health Organization has "Knowledge Center on Public Health and Disasters", a specialized website, from which you can access to a wide collection of books and documents related to different aspects on the topic, from preparedness to response, including disaster chronicles. All the documents and books are free of charge and accessible online. The website is in English and Spanish, and some titles are in both languages, others only in one of them

Quickly Identify Hazmat Emergency Procedures
PHMSA's 2012 Emergency Response Guidebook provides first responders with a go-to manual to help deal with hazmat accidents during the critical first 30 minutes. DOT's goal is to place an ERG in every emergency service vehicle nationwide.

The most widely known and recognised set of common principles and universal minimum standards for humanitarian response--based on a project initiated in 1997 by a group of humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

WISER is designed to assist emergency responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.

Reports and journals that are entirely open access- freely available-- Exs: World Health Report, World Health Statistics, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.