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Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management

Controlling patient temperature is important for a wide variety of clinical conditions. Cooling to normal or below normal body temperature is often ...

University of Illinois at Chicago

Attune Medical

Ongoing vigilance by governments, public health agencies and health care professionals monitoring potential epidemic and pandemic outbreaks, terrorist threats and ever-present natural disasters requires the continuous evolution of comprehensive disaster response plans and teams, which include the integration of oral health care professionals.

Disaster medicine training survey results for dental health care providers in Illinois.

The medical response to a mass casualty further complicates the hectic environment that follows a terrorist event. In addition to providing treatment, medical professionals may discover items or persons of interest to the pending investigation and should be aware of how to handle these situations appropriately. Examples of case law are provided to illustrate how practitioners' actions could help or hinder prosecution. The traditional forensic role of dental professionals is identifying victims through dental records. In this article, the dental professional is considered a member of a disaster response team, and the differences in responsibilities are highlighted.

Melissa I. Naiman

Center for Advanced Design,
Research,
and Exploration,
Center for Advanced Design, Research, and Exploration

University of Illinois at Chicago

Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management

Melissa I. Naiman

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University of Illinois at Chicago

Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management

Center for Advanced Design,
Research,
and Exploration,
Center for Advanced Design, Research, and Exploration