Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual - Softcover

Tan, Hock Heng

 
9789814583152: Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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