Hazmat Medical Life Support: A Basic Provider Manual (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789814583152)

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.

Author: Hock Heng Tan,Mark Leong,R. Ponampalam
ISBN-10: 9814583154
ISBN-13: 9789814583152
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2014
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 0.60d