Disaster Emergency Medicine Readiness Training Center

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Course Descriptions

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Core Disaster Life Support

Core Disaster Life Support is an instructor-led course designed for all public health care personnel and social workers, clergy, and mental health personnel, administrators and planners. CDLS is intended to provide a basic uniform standard of competencies, skills and knowledge to health care and public health responders for WMD response.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Define All-Hazards Terminology

• Recognize potential public health emergencies (PHE) and their causes, risks and consequences

• Define the D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R™ paradigm

• List scene priorities of a mass casualty incident (MCI) response

• Describe pre-hospital and hospital medical components of a disaster incident response

• Describe personal protective equipment (PPE) and decontamination

• Describe the role of your local public health system in PHE's

• Describe planning initiatives in Illinois and locally

Upcoming course offerings: 10/15/05, 02/11/06, and during the Chicago Dental Society Meeting 02/23 - 02/26/06