A collection of instructions for hygiene, treatment, and management in unforeseen accidents Introduction and review

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Book Introduction Collection of Guidelines for Health, Treatment, and Management in Unforeseen Disasters Various Authors, Collection of Guidelines for Health, Treatment, and Management in Unforeseen Disasters (Volume 1), Tehran, Medical Community Mobilization, 2004, 130 pages Natural disasters continue to cause tragic human, economic, and social losses and damage to the environment. Hazards and threats arising from nuclear and atomic sources are also another one of the problems and issues facing disaster management. One of the important stages of the disaster management cycle is the response stage, which consists of actions taken immediately before and after the occurrence of an incident. Hospitals, as fixed and specialized centers for providing health and medical services with available facilities and experienced personnel, are considered one of the important components of the response process to unexpected incidents. Hospital preparedness for unexpected incidents stems from multiple and complex factors, one of the most important being the existence of a Hospital Disaster Plan 1 . Preparing such a plan is one of the important management priorities for every hospital and the first step in creating hospital preparedness for unexpected incidents. The book "Collection of Executive Instructions for Health, Treatment, and Crisis Management in Unexpected Incidents," which has been compiled with the aim of achieving an appropriate and uniform model in dealing with unexpected incidents, while determining the important elements of the Hospital Disaster Plan, has examined the Incident Command System 2 , the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System 3 , and the method of designing hospital preparedness programs in response to accidents.