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Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents
MGT-348 — PER-233
DHS/FEMA-funded course
August 10 & 11, 2023
Bacon County EOC
120 East 4th Street
Alma, GA
Course Description:
This course is designed for personnel from any professional background who may become part of a community response to a bombing event. This interactive, instructor-facilitated program employs case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and response to blast effects. Breakout sessions address considerations and concerns specific both to medical responders and emergency planners.
Students are encouraged to ask questions and to create a to-do list of items they don’t have the answers to, so they have a list of tasks to address when they return to their jurisdiction.
Topics
- Terrorism target identification
- Types of terrorism
- Explosive characteristics and behaviors
- Homemade explosives
- Pre-attack indicators
- Blast injuries types and treatment
- Mass casualty triage
- Pre- and post-detonation response
- Planning considerations
- Command considerations
- Understanding local/state/federal resources
- Case studies
- Integrated tabletop exercise
Suggested Audience
Disciplines include, but are not limited to:
- Fire Services
- Law Enforcement (federal, state, local, county)
- SWAT team members
- Tactical Medics
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
- Hospital personnel
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Emergency management organizations
- Emergency managers and planners
- Emergency planners
- City, county, state, and federal medical
- County Medical
- State Medical
- Federal Medical
- Private Industry
- Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
- Dispatchers
- Medical Reserve Corps