Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual

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 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 event, personal protective equipment, decontamination, wound management, life support as well as paediatric-specific issues are discussed in this book. Request Inspection Copy Contents: Introduction and Objectives (Mark Leong & Tan Hock Heng) Historical Perspectives (Mark Leong & Tan Hock Heng) Part 1 — Chemical Hazmat: Basic Toxicological Principles (R Ponampalam & Sohil Pothiawala) Part 1a — Industrial Hazmat Agents: Introduction to Industrial Chemicals (R Ponampalam) Asphyxiants (Sohil Pothiawala & R Ponampalam) Irritant Gases (Kenneth Tan & R Ponampalam) Corrosives (R Ponampalam & Gregory Cham) Hydrocarbons (Sohil Pothiawala & R Ponampalam) Part 1b — Chemical Warfare Agents: Nerve Agents (Lee Chun Yue) Drug Therapy for Nerve Agent Poisoning (Kenneth Tan & Lee Chun Yue) Non-Nerve Gas Chemical Warfare Agents (Phua Dong Haur & Lee Chun Yue) Part 2 — Approach to Hazmat Casualties: Medical Response to Hazmat Incidents (Chan Kim Chai, Lim Ghee Hian & Mark Leong) General Approach and Triage (Jimmy Goh) Personal Protective Equipment (Tan Hock Heng & Adeline Ngo) Decontamination Procedures (Adeline Ngo & Tan Hock Heng) Management of Open Wounds in Hazmat Casualties (Goh Siang Hiong) Provision of Life Support for Hazmat Casualties (Goh Siang Hiong) Hazmat and the Paediatric Patient (Gene Ong & Ng Kee Chong) Part 3 —…