Journal of Diabetes Investigation (Jul 2019)

Diabetes Care Providers’ Manual for Disaster Diabetes Care

  • Jo Satoh,
  • Koichi Yokono,
  • Rie Ando,
  • Toshinari Asakura,
  • Kazuhiko Hanzawa,
  • Yasushi Ishigaki,
  • Takashi Kadowaki,
  • Masato Kasuga,
  • Hideki Katagiri,
  • Yasuhisa Kato,
  • Koreyuki Kurosawa,
  • Masanobu Miura,
  • Jiro Nakamura,
  • Koichi Nishitsuka,
  • Susumu Ogawa,
  • Tomoko Okamoto,
  • Sadanori Sakuma,
  • Shigeru Sakurai,
  • Hiroaki Satoh,
  • Hidetoshi Shimauchi,
  • Hiroaki Shimokawa,
  • Wataru Shoji,
  • Takashi Sugiyama,
  • Akira Suwabe,
  • Masahiro Tachi,
  • Kazuma Takahashi,
  • Susumu Takahashi,
  • Yasuo Terayama,
  • Hiroaki Tomita,
  • Yoko Tsuchiya,
  • Hironori Waki,
  • Tsuyoshi Watanabe,
  • Kazuaki Yahata,
  • Hidetoshi Yamashita

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/jdi.13053
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 1118 – 1142

Abstract

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Abstract To ensure that experiences and lessons learned from the unprecedented 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake are used to improve future disaster planning, the Japan Diabetes Society (JDS) launched the “Research and Survey Committee for Establishing Disaster Diabetes Care Systems Based on Relevant Findings from the Great East Japan Earthquake” under the supervision of the Chairman of the JDS. The Committee conducted a questionnaire survey among patients with diabetes, physicians, disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs), nurses, pharmacists, and nutritionists in disaster areas about the events they saw happening, the situations they found difficult to handle, and the needs that they felt required to be met during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. A total of 3,481 completed questionnaires were received. Based on these and other experiences and lessons reported following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the 2004 Niigata‐Chuetsu Earthquakes, the current “Manual for Disaster Diabetes Care” has been developed by the members of the Committee and other invited authors from relevant specialties. To our knowledge, the current Manual is the world's first to focus on emergency diabetes care, with this digest English version translated from the Japanese original. It is sincerely hoped that patients with diabetes and healthcare providers around the world will find this manual helpful in promoting disaster preparedness and implementing disaster relief.

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