Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual

Download or read book Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual written by Hock Heng Tan and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.