title: Veterinary services in disasters and emergencies.
abstract: Potential man-made or natural disasters could overwhelm the residual medical and surgical capacity. Veterinarians have the training and experience to augment physicians in caring for human casualties, and dispersed veterinary hospitals constitute survivable facilities that are equipped to provide medical and surgical care. Veterinarians can also serve public health and preventive medicine and maintain the health of agricultural livestock as food sources. Civil defense planning must include veterinarians so that these valuable medical care resources can be used to save lives that might otherwise be lost.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Tennyson
mesh_terms: D002959:Civil Defense; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D005523:Food Supply; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma; D011634:Public Health; D012499:Sanitation; D014731:Veterinary Service, Military