Full Description
The Hazmat medical life support basic provider course book aims to equip medical responders to a hazmat incident — chemical, radiological or biological — with essential skills and knowledge to safely manage casualties. It includes basic information about hazmat agents and provides easy to remember algorithmic approaches for the on-scene management of a hazmat event. Essential information on setting up medical operations, triaging and approach to hazmat event, personal protective equipment, decontamination, wound management, life support as well as paediatric-specific issues are discussed in this book.
Contents
Introduction and Historical Perspective; Toxic Chemicals; Medical Response System, Triaging Hazmat Casualties; Personal Protective Equipment; Decontamination, Management of Wounds, Life Support and Paediatric Patients Approach; Radiological/Nuclear and Biological Events and Their Management.
