Basic Disaster Life Support
Basic Disaster Life Support addresses the need to standardize emergency response and treatment for mass disasters, terrorism and other public health emergencies. BDLS is intended to provide an intermediate, uniform standard of competencies, skills and knowledge to front line health care and public health responders for WMD response. It focuses equally on the clinical and public health aspects of disaster. This course is geared to the needs of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, public health professionals and veterinarians.
Skills Gained
•All Hazards Course Overview, a review of the D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. Paradigm™
• Natural and Accidental Man-made Disasters
• Traumatic and Explosive Events
• Nuclear and Radiological Events
• Biological Events
• Chemical Events
• Casualty Decontamination
• Inoculation Training
• Critical Incident Stress - Psychological Impact of Disasters
•The Public Health System including media and communications utilization, regulatory and legal issues of event management, community and hospital disaster planning and community, state and federal disaster resources