David MacGarty

• Anaesthetist at Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (Queensland Health)

Pilot prospective study on the use of a non-invasive finger cuff based haemodynamic monitor (ClearSightTM) to guide fluid resuscitation in haemodynamically unstable patients in a general hospital ward setting needing a Medical Emergency Team (MET) call

The essence of conflict is the actual or implied use of violence. Recovery implies a return to a previous state. Recovery may be rapid (measured in days or months) or may take many years. What may be called the onset of recovery varies – it may begin almost immediately during the acute phase of a conflict or catastrophe. The immediate provision of...

Deploying organisations will usually provide medicines for the population at risk and most will provide drugs and equipment for deploying staff. Often, medics still prefer to carry their own emergency pack. Prepacked first aid kits are available from suppliers (see suppliers list later in this chapter) but many of you will wish to customise medicin...

Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e follows its successful predecessors in providing a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Aimed at health professionals, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e encompasses problems brought about by local conflict or natural disas...

Having completed your GP training you decide to deploy and you take a post working in a large camp for people displaced following an earthquake. Given the total destruction of health and sanitation facilities you are unsurprised that disease is rife in the camp. One day a young girl is brought to you by her mother. She is dehydrated having produced...

You take a break from psychiatry training to spend some time working in a children’s rehabilitation center in an East African country. The region is a conflict zone which has become notorious for child abduction, and many of the children in the center have experienced psychological trauma. You consider the likely mental health consequences of wides...

Following a huge earthquake in a Caribbean island you deploy with a surgical team arriving 48 h later. On arrival it is clear that existing facilities are destroyed and so an improvised operating theatre is constructed and you operate around the clock for the next 48 h. Many patients present with damaged limbs which have become infected. Sepsis is...

You decide to take a year out from medical school to work with a health development NGO in South East Asia on a project measuring Millennium Development Goal (MDG) progress. Initial research takes you to the local UNDP office and it becomes clear that MDG 3 (Gender equality and female empowerment) in particular is a falling behind. You are told abo...

Whether switching on the TV, picking up a newspaper or simply logging on to the internet, one is constantly faced with images of natural disasters, conflict and human suffering. Humanity has experienced these problems throughout time and we have evolved methods and mechanisms for alleviating suffering, from trauma care following a traffic accident...

You are recruited by an NGO operating in a conflict zone to provide medical care for rural villages and to conduct a health needs assessment. Research into humanitarian security in the region paints a bleak picture but you are determined to continue. The NGO plan a low profile approach initially but an increase in the region's insecurity necessitat...