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Overview
Veterinary Disaster Response is the essential guide to disaster training, preparation, planning, and recovery. The book takes a question-and-answer format to promote understanding and outline the steps for veterinary response to natural and man-made disasters. Veterinary Disaster Response is a must-have reference for anyone involved in disaster medicine, including veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, animal control and shelter personnel, search and rescue personnel, and emergency response teams.
Synopsis
Veterinary Disaster Response is the essential guide to disaster training, preparation, planning, and recovery. The book takes a question-and-answer format to promote understanding and outline the steps for veterinary response to natural and man-made disasters. With comprehensive coverage of veterinary disaster management, the content of Veterinary Disaster Response combines scientific knowledge with clinical and practical applications in the field.
Encompassing topics ranging from zoonotic diseases to animal sheltering to euthanasia, the book covers disaster response in the field and at the practice, city, state, and national level. Veterinary Disaster Response is a must-have reference for anyone involved in disaster medicine, including veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, animal control and shelter personnel, search and rescue personnel, and emergency response teams.
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Reviewer:John A Herrmann, DVM, MPH, DACT(University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)
Description:This book is a welcome addition to the field of veterinary preparedness and response. The question-and-answer format is particularly helpful and should appeal to a wide audience.
Purpose:The authors indicate that the purpose is to acquaint individual first responders with the need for training prior to responding to animal health disasters and disease outbreaks.
Audience:The book is written for veterinarian and non-veterinarian responders. It is well balanced in its approach, covering the scientific/medical aspects of preparedness and response in a manner that should be accessible to non-veterinarians, while covering functional aspects of preparedness and response in a manner that is appropriate for both audiences.
Features:This is a good resource for responders, public health agencies, and educators in veterinary medicine and public health. It covers most aspects of preparedness and response in an easy to read, effective question-and-answer format. Illustrations are well done and helpful. The sections by the lead authors are well conceived and written. That said, the book is not without faults. The section on leadership is particularly weak, with an emphasis on the opinions of coaches and former military leaders. Better resources would be leadership thinkers such as Greenleaf and Kouzes and Posner. The section on public health would have been better written by any number of public health veterinarians from across the country. A glaring omission in this section was a discussion of the major role that state and local health departments play in animal emergencies under the National Response Framework. I would also suggest that the editors update their opinions on prions and their role in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. I would like to see a broader experiential and geographic selection of contributing authors; roughly half are from Colorado. Lastly, it would be helpful to have lines linking topics and page numbers in the table of contents.
Assessment:Despite these weaknesses, I found the book to be a useful addition to the field of preparedness and response. I will use it as a reference in some of my public health classes. This field is very large and can be confusing to individuals unfamiliar with ICS, NIMS, and the many agencies involved in disaster planning. This book is a nice compendium of information and resources in a convenient, easy to read format.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: John A Herrmann, DVM, MPH, DACT(University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)Description: This book is a welcome addition to the field of veterinary preparedness and response. The question-and-answer format is particularly helpful and should appeal to a wide audience.
Purpose: The authors indicate that the purpose is to acquaint individual first responders with the need for training prior to responding to animal health disasters and disease outbreaks.
Audience: The book is written for veterinarian and non-veterinarian responders. It is well balanced in its approach, covering the scientific/medical aspects of preparedness and response in a manner that should be accessible to non-veterinarians, while covering functional aspects of preparedness and response in a manner that is appropriate for both audiences.
Features: This is a good resource for responders, public health agencies, and educators in veterinary medicine and public health. It covers most aspects of preparedness and response in an easy to read, effective question-and-answer format. Illustrations are well done and helpful. The sections by the lead authors are well conceived and written. That said, the book is not without faults. The section on leadership is particularly weak, with an emphasis on the opinions of coaches and former military leaders. Better resources would be leadership thinkers such as Greenleaf and Kouzes and Posner. The section on public health would have been better written by any number of public health veterinarians from across the country. A glaring omission in this section was a discussion of the major role that state and local health departments play in animal emergencies under the National Response Framework. I would also suggest that the editors update their opinions on prions and their role in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. I would like to see a broader experiential and geographic selection of contributing authors; roughly half are from Colorado. Lastly, it would be helpful to have lines linking topics and page numbers in the table of contents.
Assessment: Despite these weaknesses, I found the book to be a useful addition to the field of preparedness and response. I will use it as a reference in some of my public health classes. This field is very large and can be confusing to individuals unfamiliar with ICS, NIMS, and the many agencies involved in disaster planning. This book is a nice compendium of information and resources in a convenient, easy to read format.
From the Publisher
"A pick for any practicing ER vet or veterinary library. It uses a question-and-answer format to outline steps for veterinary response to either natural or man-made disasters, covering training, procedures, and applied science in the field. Any practicing vet needs this, which comes packed with color photos, charts, and sidebars of at-a-glance information." -Midwest Book Review, July 2009