Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual (Second Edition)

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 and effectively 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 events, personal protective equipment, decontamination, wound management, life support as well as paediatric-specific issues are presented in this book.The second edition has updated and revised the chapters, keeping to the same basic approach targeted at medical personnel who are first responders to hazmat events. New resource especially regarding chemical weapons, antidotes as well as biological agents have been revised to provide up to date information that are essential for the first responder.