This one-day program provides the information a medical
professional would need when treating patients in a HAZMAT
setting. Integrating lecture, tabletop scenarios, and practical,
the student will leave better prepared to safely receive
and treat decontaminated patients. During the program, students
are oriented their role at a HAZMAT incident, and are given
the opportunity to participate in walk-through decontamination
set-up and implementation in order to facilitate a better
understanding of the decon process and enable informed treatment
decision-making.
At the completion of this program the student will be able
to:
1. Conduct a scene assessment to include: weather effects,
wind direction, evacuation distances, chemical properties,
radiation and biological characteristics.
2. Define hot, warm and cold zones and identify the operations
that take place in each.
3. Define the role of the medical professional as support
to the Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) team.
4. Identify how standard Mass Casualty Incident management
integrates into incident command and HAZMAT operations.
5. Understand the different levels of personal protection,
including respiratory protection.
6. Identify basic principles of decontamination.
7. Recognize the clinical syndromes associated with poisoning
patterns.
8. Given a scenario, establish appropriate medical operations
at the scene of a HAZMAT incident.
* This program can also be customized to meet the needs
of non-medical personnel
who may be expected to play a support role at the decontamination
site.
