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Tactics, techniques and procedures for accomplishing air medical evacation of the sick and injured

Describes pioneering biomedical research that forms the basis of our current knowledge of blast injury mechanisms

Medical Issues in the Care of the Combat Amputee

Recommendations for on-scene (prehospital), and hospital medical management

Full text of an emergency handbook in use by the National Institutes of Health

US military manual

Technical Guidelines for Disaster Situations

Manual on emergency health and medical services operations during disasters

How to establish decontamination line layouts

Medical countermeasures to chemical warfare agents

Reference materials from the AMA

Advice for Hospital Emergency Departments for Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents

Guidance documents for hospital emergency departments

For hospitals and primary care centers

Includes a reporting template to help with field data gathering

An exercise evaluation tool

This Handbook is an essential tool for the management of forward combat trauma

Health management in emergencies

Tools and Models for Planning and Preparedness

Full text of Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8 - Health and Medical Services

Full text of US Army manual on medical support services for nuclear, biological & chemical warfare

Emergency indicators and minimum standards

Technical Guidelines for Women, Children in Disaster Situations

ATSDR emergency procedures for incidents involving hazardous materials/chemicals

A template for healthcare facilities

Summary of Joint Commission's accreditation requirements

Download the HEICS Plan

HICS is a set of response procedures which fit within a hospital's emergency preparedness plan

Readiness for Potential Attack Using Chemical or Biological Agents - includes checklists

Draft guidelines prepared by the State of New York

Help your organization ensure that the appropriate elements are in place

Treament guidelines for hospitals and clinicians on terrorism agents

Topics include infection control, medical management, patient advisement, dialysis care and much more

Technical Guidelines for Disaster Situations

Some of the early responses to the many health care issues that surfaced in Katrina's wake

Surge hospitals are designed to assist in absorbing an overwhelming number of patients during mass casualty events

Includes landing zone requirements for helicopters

An approach to disaster medical response with mass casualties

A planning guide - strategies

Injuries & Mass Trauma Fact Sheets

Materials to assist in the preparation for and response to mass trauma

Treating chemical casualties of war

Includes treatment guidelines

Worksheet used to evaluate potential for event and response

Uses a quantitative method to evaluate vulnerability

Algorithm to determine when the capacity of a region's medical resources are exceeded during an incident

Field guide for first responders to assist in preparing for a medical response to a WMD incident

A resource for managing the pain of battlefield trauma

A guide for medical officers on the medical aspects of NBC operations

Protection of hospital emergency department personnel during the receipt of contaminated victims

A series of protocols

A network of experts in children's environmental health

A pediatric multiple casualty incident triage algorithm

Evaluation form for the correct use of the tape

Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Program - 2002

Manual for preventive medicine staff in a theater of operations (pdf)

Key principles of disaster mitigation - administrative, organizational & structural vulnerability

Disaster Preparedness for Radiology Professionals

Guidance to those responding both at the scene of an accident (prehospital) and at the hospital

Guidance on diagnosis and treatment for health care providers

A guide for medical professionals on how to handle patients exposed to radiation

Intended to assist facilities in maintaining a safe environment of care by checking potential issues after a disaster

Tool to assist with the determining the safety of a hospital to accept patients after a disaster

Planning guidance for special facilities such as nursing homes

The establishment of the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS)

Field manual about the combat support hospital, field hospital and the general hospital (pdf)

Handbook of performance improvement applications for trauma

Should urban hospitals be evacuated in advance of predicted disasters?

Casualty Management and Lessons Learned

Treatment of Chemical Agent Casualties and Conventional Military Chemical Injuries

What DMATs do

Describes the management of nearly 100 cases of acute combat trauma

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives

Factors influencing daily water requirements

Information on the contents of WHO emergency health kits