AHDR: All Hazards Disaster Response: All Hazards Disaster Response - Softcover

National Association Of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1284041042 ISBN 13: 9781284041040

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Be prepared to respond to many types of disaster scenarios with NAEMT's new course, All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR).The All Hazards Disaster Response course is an innovative and highly interactive 8-hour course. The Course Manual covers the features of a comprehensive response plan: Communicating effectively during disasters Mutual aid and interoperability Managing resources such as supplies, medications, and equipment Triage and transportation strategies and challenges Patient tracking and evacuation Adapting treatment for burns, blasts, crush, and other injuries when faced with limited resourcesThe All Hazards Disaster Response course teaches participants how to analyze potential threats in their area, assess available resources, and create a response plan that will save lives.

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Formed in 1975 and more than 32,000 members strong, the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) is the nation’s only organization solely dedicated to representing the professional interests of all EMS practitioners, including paramedics, emergency medical technicians, emergency medical responders and other professionals working in prehospital emergency medicine. NAEMT members work in all sectors of EMS, including government service agencies, fire departments, hospital-based ambulance services, private companies, industrial and special operations settings, and in the military. NAEMT represents all EMS practitioners in promoting: • Greater understanding and appreciation by government agencies at the local, state and national levels of the role that EMS plays in our nation's health care, public safety, and disaster response systems. • Pay and benefits that reflects their professional training, responsibilities and dedication. • Leadership at the federal level that fosters and supports the delivery of quality EMS nationwide. • Adequate and sustainable funding for EMS in all locations. • Public policy that supports EMS practitioners and the patients they serve.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1284041042
• ISBN 13: 9781284041040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88