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Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties,” in CD-ROM and Web versions, was released on April 15, 2006.

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Program Purpose

The purpose of this training is to prepare clinicians in first receiver settings to: (1) Identify factors impacting immediate medical response to mass casualties following major types of radiological incidents, and (2) Demonstrate appropriate patient assessment, triage, treatment and disposition decision-making required during a radiological mass casualty incident.

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Computer Settings Guide

To set up your computer with the necessary settings and plug-ins, see the "Computer Settings Guide."

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Printing

Reference articles and documents that are available in PDF format can be printed through Adobe Acrobat Reader®. If you do not have Acrobat Reader® installed on your computer, you may install it by following the Computer Settings Guide.

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Learning Objectives

After completing this training activity, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the immediate health effects of potential radiological terrorism incidents likely to result in mass casualties.
     
  2. Discuss the major considerations impacting emergency response planning for a radiological terrorism incident involving mass casualties.
     
  3. Describe the major considerations impacting establishment of mass decontamination systems following a radiological terrorism incident.
     
  4. Identify the key principles involving triage of patients with potential radiation injury (Acute Radiation Syndrome).  
     
  5. Describe the key components of treating patients with combined injury (trauma and radiation injury).
     
  6. Describe the key components of treating patients with atraumatic irradiation (radiation without traumatic injury).
     
  7. Identify the major pharmacological agents used to treat patients with radiological injury following a mass casualty radiological terrorism incident.

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Time

You should allow approximately two hours to complete this activity. The actual time you spend will depend on how much of the supplementary material, in the Resources section, you review.

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Audience

The intended audience for this training are MDs and RNs in the emergency departments of first-receiver settings.

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Prerequisites

As a prerequisite for this training, you should have basic knowledge of emergency preparedness and general trauma resuscitation knowledge comparable to that required to work professionally in emergency services care delivery.

In addition, some introductory knowledge regarding medical response to radiological terrorism is recommended, comparable to that provided previously by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a CE approved training on Medical Response to Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism (http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/PHTN/webcast/radiation-04/default.asp)

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Continuing Education Credit Information

How to Register

In order to register for this course you must complete the Self Test.

To register for the course and receive continuing education credit:

  • Go to http://www.cdc.gov/tceonline/
  • Login as a participant (note: the first time you use the online system you will need to login as a new participant and create a participant profile).
  • Find the course by searching the catalog using the following course numbers
    • If you completed this course on a CD-ROM the course number is: CB3125.
    • If you completed this course using the Internet the course number is: WB3149.
  • Select the type of credit you wish to receive and register for the course.
  • Complete the course evaluation.
  • Print your continuing education certificate.

To receive continuing education credit, you must complete the entire course, take the Self Test, and provide an evaluation online.

At the time you complete the online evaluation you will be required to provide a verification code. Watch for this verification code as you complete the activity.

For assistance with the online system, call (800) 41-TRAIN or (404) 639-1292 Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time or send an e-mail to CE@cdc.gov.
General Information

The content for this activity was finalized on March 31, 2006 and is valid for continuing education credit until March 31, 2009. We encourage you to periodically review the CDC Radiation Emergencies Web site (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/) for updated information.

Credit CME:  CME:  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 hours in category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the activity.
CNE:  CNE:  This activity for 2.4 contact hours is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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Contact Us

Send questions and comments about this training to:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
800-CDC-INFO
E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov

Additional complimentary copies of the CD-ROM can be ordered by sending name, address, and phone number to cdcinfo@cdc.gov.

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Disclosure Statements

CDC, our planners, and our presenters wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use with the exception of Dr. Jeffrey Nemhauser’s discussion on Pharmacotherapy. He will be discussing filgrastim.

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Additional Statements

This training was produced under contract number AC05-06OR23100. The producing contractors are the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is a U.S. Department of Energy institute focusing on scientific initiatives to research health risks from occupational hazards, assess environmental cleanup, respond to radiation medical emergencies, support national security and emergency preparedness, and educate the next generation of scientists. ORISE is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Portions utilize Microsoft Windows Media Technologies. Copyright© 1999-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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