Initial Response to a Radiological Dispersal Device / Dirty Bomb – EMS & Healthcare
This course is designed to provide the EMS and Healthcare Community with an in-depth understanding of the DHS Radiological Dispersal Device Response Guidance.
Initial Response to a Radiological Dispersal Device / Dirty Bomb – EMS & Healthcare
Duration: 4.0 Hours
Key Topics:
- Summarize the DHS RDD Response Guide – First 100 Minutes (Nov. 2017 version)
- Critical missions and the role of EMS and First Receivers in those missions
- Operating in a high radiation area to perform rescue without radiation metering
- Performing Triage and making transport vs decontamination decisions
- Types of survey meters and how to prepare them for use in an emergency
- Proper survey techniques to assess patients for radioactive contamination
- Review different techniques used for patient decontamination operations
- Tabletop exercise
Audience: EMS, First Receivers, Healthcare Administrative Staff and Emergency Planner
This course is designed to provide the EMS and Healthcare Community with an in-depth understanding of the DHS Radiological Dispersal Device Response Guidance updated in November of 2017. We will discuss EMS Agencies’ transportation of contaminated patients who are Triaged as ‘Critical’, and both the psychological and logistical implications that will have on the Agency and its Responders. Similarly, hospitals must be ready to accept contaminated critical patients who will be arriving in the first 15-20 minutes after the incident followed by large groups of self-transporting contaminated walking wounded patients and the ‘worried well’.
The course concludes with a tabletop exercise and hands-on practice surveying patients for contamination using a radiation simulation system.
Radiation Emergencies Overview for EMS Providers
The intent of this course is to familiarize all levels of the EMS system with the concept of
providing emergency healthcare during a radioactive weapon attack or accident.
Radiation Emergencies Overview for EMS Providers
Duration: 2.0 Hours
Key Topics
- Introduction to natural and commercial radioactive sources
- Weaponization of radioactive materials
- Personal safety during radioactive emergencies
- Expectations for EMS Providers during a radioactive weapon attack
- Limiting equipment contamination for operational continuity
Audience: EMTs, Paramedics, EMS Agency Management, Medical Directors and Emergency Planners
The intent of this course is to familiarize all levels of the EMS system with the concept of providing emergency healthcare during a radioactive weapon attack or accident. During the first hour of the class, First Responders and management will be presented with issues
they would face during such an event, such as personnel health concerns, contamination of vital equipment and the urgency of critical patient transport prior to decontamination efforts. The second hour will include potential solutions to these issues as well as an open
group discussion for additional ideas and agency specific concerns.
While it is not required, the staff at REST highly recommend that every mid-line Supervisor or Manager attend one of these sessions for agency / company representatives to address provider-specific policy conflicts.
This course was designed to allow for multiple deliveries throughout the same day to maximize crew rotations and shifts.
Radiation Emergency Overview for First Receivers and Healthcare Systems
This course is intended for all levels of healthcare system staff who would be affected by a radioactive weapon attack or accident in their region.
Radiation Emergency Overview for First Receivers and Healthcare Systems
Duration: 2.0 Hours
Key Points:
- Introduction to natural and commercial radioactive sources
- Weaponization of radioactive materials
- Personal safety during radioactive emergencies
- Expectations for Hospital Staff during a radioactive weapon attack
- Potential forms of contamination Hospital Staff may encounter
- Patient survey techniques
- Limiting equipment contamination for operational continuity
Audience: All First Receivers, ER Staff, Hospital / Healthcare System Management
This course is intended for all levels of healthcare system staff who would be affected by a radioactive weapon attack or accident in their region. The Staff at REST will familiarize all levels of a Healthcare System with the concept of providing emergency healthcare during a radioactive weapon attack or accident. During the first hour of the class, First Receivers and management will be presented with issues they would face during such an event, such as personnel health concerns, contamination of vital equipment and the urgency of critical patient treatment prior to decontamination efforts. The second hour will include potential solutions to these issues as well as an open group discussion for additional ideas and agency specific concerns.
This course was designed to allow for multiple deliveries throughout the same day to
maximize staff rotations and shifts.
PPE Selection and Responder Decontamination
This course is intended to identify proper PPE Selection for First Responders who may have to enter an elevated radiation environment with suspected deposition of radioactive material, and then safely exit via a technical decontamination corridor.
PPE Selection and Responder Decontamination
Duration:
4.0 Hours
Guiding Documents:
NFPA 470
HHS REMM Procedure for Radiation Decontamination
Key Topics:
- Recommended PPE for radioactive emergencies
- Discuss alternative personal protection methods if no PPE is available
- Review recommended steps for responder technical decontamination operations
- Identify potential unique circumstances, to include evidentary and law enforcement weapon concerns
Audience:
First Responders and Emergency Planners
Course Summary:
This course will review NFPA recommended PPE selection for operations inside an elevated radioactive environment with the suspected presence of transferable contamination. Addditionally, alternative protection methods to protect those responders who find themselves without any PPE.
Participants will review the recommended procedures for Responder Technical Decon Operations from several different guiding documents for a rounded discussion on best practices. The class will conclude with several reptitions of participants acting as both responders exiting the ‘warm zone’ and as the Decon Team.
Customizable Courses
At REST, we recognize that agencies may not find exactly the right fit with the courses offered in our catalog. Or you may want to combine a workshop, exercise or course together. Our staff is more than willing to work with you and your agency to design a unique course that ‘checks all the boxes’ for you. Every component of our material is customizable, including course length, content, start time, mergers with other REST components and cost.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us so we can provide you with exactly what you need to keep your troops safe.
