"There is no better time to announce a newly updated edition of the leading textbook on disaster medicine. ... Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine is a tightly edited, thorough exploration of all aspects of disaster medicine. The book achieves its lofty goal of being complete yet accessible. It meets the challenge of being up to date in a dynamic field. Clear chapter structure offers both historical perspective and current practice, and summaries allow readers to build a framework for concepts that improve retention. ... Appealing to students, the book provides all the necessary fundamentals that will facilitate more advanced study. Practitioners of disaster medicine will find the book an excellent resource for reference and referral. ... The rigorous academic skill of the expert authors lends each chapter insight, authority, and thoroughness. ... Although a read-through of this list of evils may be overwhelming, this book offers the best that could be offered: timeless, thoroughness, and usability."
-Stephen C. Morris, MD, MPH (Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 67, no. 6: June 2016)
"We recently experienced a surge of patients in our emergency department with tear gas exposure from a riot. After the event, I consulted the book and there were two succinct chapters that related to this event… Looking forward, I intend to spend some time really engaging with this book and saving it for reference as more disasters are inevitable…the book feels not only comprehensive, but truly definitive."
-Michael D. Zwank, MD, RDMS, FACEP (University of Minnesota Medical School) Doody’s Score: 95 - 4 Stars!