On this edition of Surgery ICU Rounds, Dr. Jeffrey Guy, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director at the Vanderbilt Regional Burn Center takes up the topic of disaster planning, implementation and recovery. Case in point: hurricane evacuations. One of the foremost experts with first-hand experience joins us: Dr. Norman E. McSwain, Jr., professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine and attending surgeon at Tulane University Hospital & Clinic. Dr. McSwain has been the Trauma Director for the Level 1 Trauma Center at Charity Hospital in New Orleans for the past 10 years, and he is the Founder and Medical Director for Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and a police surgeon in the New Orleans Police Department. The New York Times called Dr. McSwain a “Hero of Katrina” following his work at Charity Hospital in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.