| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Overview: The First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters | p. 1 |
| Thermal agent disaster and fire disaster: definition, damage, assessment and relief operations | p. 7 |
| The scientific basis of disaster medicine | p. 13 |
| Overcoming the mythology of disaster | p. 19 |
| Analysis of severe fire disasters | p. 24 |
| Fire disasters in Osaka | p. 37 |
| Lessons from the Dublin 1981 fire catastrophe | p. 45 |
| Forest fires and the danger to fire-fighters | p. 51 |
| Forest fires in Sicily | p. 60 |
| Safety regulations in high-risk industries. The situation in petrochemical plants in Sicily | p. 64 |
| Domestic fire problems in Third World countries | p. 70 |
| Domestic burns in children caused by butane gas explosion | p. 77 |
| Accidents due to electricity and burns. A statistical analysis of events occurring at the National Electricity Energy Board during the period 1988-1989 | p. 79 |
| Fire in port | p. 89 |
| Fire on board ship | p. 93 |
| Marine fire casualties in merchant ships: the Greek statistics | p. 106 |
| Fire services at a motor racing track | p. 110 |
| Fire emergency in a hospital | p. 113 |
| Fire prevention countermeasures for cultural properties in Nara City | p. 116 |
| Immediate assistance and first aid on the spot in fire disasters - education of the public and self-sufficiency training | p. 121 |
| Health education in disaster medicine | p. 133 |
| System of postgraduate training in burn emergencies in Prague | p. 140 |
| Training of specialists for burn care in Turkey | p. 145 |
| The organization of safety and fire prevention in a multidisciplinary research centre | p. 147 |
| Personal protective equipment in operations involving burn risks: theory and practice | p. 162 |
| Risks and protection of fire-fighters in forests. An outline | p. 170 |
| Problems of search and rescue in disasters | p. 175 |
| Planning of rescue work in mass fire disasters. The Paris Red Plan | p. 177 |
| Field logistical organization in the Italian Army Medical Corps | p. 180 |
| The commitment of the Italian Army Medical Corps to relief of the civilian population in the event of public disasters | p. 183 |
| The organization of the Italian Army Medical Corps in relation to contributors to civil defence in the event of disasters | p. 185 |
| The use of aircraft in fire disasters: the Italian Air Force Medical Corps in burn emergencies | p. 187 |
| Infobrul - the value of a telematic databank for burns and burns centres in the event of a disaster | p. 190 |
| Organizational criteria for setting up a field hospital after a fire disaster | p. 195 |
| Clinical fire and protocol for general doctors and for non-specialized hospital doctors to assist burn patients | p. 198 |
| Medical care of mass burn victims: the Vishnevsky principles and organization in the Ufa disaster | p. 222 |
| On-site treatment of severely burned patients | p. 224 |
| The early cooling of burns | p. 227 |
| Therapeutic kit and procedures for fluid resuscitation in disasters | p. 231 |
| Ready-to-use emergency kit for treatment of severe burns: definition and specifications | p. 239 |
| Physiopathology for burn disease during air evacuation | p. 243 |
| The use of helicopters in integrated rescue work and medical transport | p. 246 |
| Rescue of the burn patient and on-site medical assistance by a helicopter rescue service | p. 249 |
| The burn patient and medically assisted helicopter transport | p. 251 |
| The ARGO satellite system: a network for severe burns and disasters | p. 253 |
| The Italian Army Medical Corps in the field: flexibility of mobile organization | p. 260 |
| Burn treatment facilities in Turkey | p. 263 |
| The establishment of a burns centre at a general hospital: the Naples experience | p. 265 |
| Cyanide compounds in fire gas toxicity and the role of hydroxycobalamin | p. 268 |
| Early management of the critically burned patient | p. 273 |
| Psychological reactions in fire disaster emergencies: hypotheses and operational guidelines | p. 278 |
| Prevention and treatment of acute renal failure in the severely burned patient | p. 282 |
| Early and late immunological changes in burn patients | p. 285 |
| An approach to the management of hand burns using semipermeable membranes | p. 288 |
| Care of traumatic tattoos associated with gunpowder explosions and blast burns | p. 292 |
| Clinical technology in small hospitals | p. 296 |
| Mass media and serious emergencies | p. 301 |
| The mass media and fire disasters - information according to medical and psychological criteria | p. 305 |
| The role of the mass media in burn prevention campaigns - psychological considerations | p. 311 |
| The philosophy of a burns prevention campaign | p. 314 |
| Communications in the prevention of natural and man-made disasters: the role of the national and international Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations | p. 317 |
| The action of the European Community for civil defence | p. 328 |
| Japan's international disaster relief | p. 331 |
| The role of the Italian Red Cross in emergencies | p. 336 |
| Index of Authors | p. 339 |
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