You Will Learn
- What disasters are, describing their occurrence
- How medical disasters occur
- Understand the concept and purpose of disaster medicine
- Describing the stages of medical disaster management
- Phases of the disaster cycle
- Planning importance in disaster medicine
- Steps of planning
- Risk assessment & analysis
- Hazards identification & characterization
- Damage identification
- Difference between risk assessment & risk management
- Important assessment tools: FMEA, Kiser permanent & other important tools
- Resources analysis
- Planning principles, objectives & approaches
- Plan testing
- Important tips before & during the planning
- Risk analysis
- Vital signs
- Hazard detection & management
- Cardiac arrest
- Respiratory arrest
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Airway obstruction
- Drowning
- Heart attack
- Cerebral stroke
- Seizures
- Fainting & Coma
- Shocks
- Burns
- Bleeding
- Fractures
- Poisoning
- Bites and stings
- Heat-related injuries
Description
Dr. Ahmed Abdel Sabour introduces the basic concepts of medical disasters and their management. How do disasters happen? How big is a global burden? What are the main principles to deal with? Then Dr. Mohamed Rashad explains how to overcome disasters from a medical point of view in addition to the disaster cycle, how to control the disaster from your hospital & how to prepare your health facility to overcome disasters adding to planning before disasters & how to return to the hospital to normal status after the disaster has been overcome. Moreover, you will understand how to set a plan for disaster prevention & management on a broad level & how to be ready to handle disasters.
After Dr. Sameer Dabbour illustrates basic first aid & vital signs adding to how you can manage medical emergencies that result from different diseases, accidents & environmental events to help you to be able to set your priorities while handling medical emergencies & disasters. In addition to understanding how to manage vital signs & control the life-saving process efficiently.
First Aid and Disaster Preparedness Program Courses
Dr. Ahmed Abdel Sabour
Disaster Medicine, An Introduction
This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of medical disaster and its management. How do disasters happen? How big is a global burden? What are the main principles to deal with? All of these questions will...
Dr. Sameer Dabbour
First Aid
This course highlights and illustrates basic first aid & vital signs adding to how you can manage medical emergencies that result from different diseases, accidents & environmental events to help you to be able to set yo...
Dr. Mohamed Rashad
Planning In Disaster Medicine
This course highlights how to overcome disasters from a medical point of view in addition to the disaster cycle, how to control the disaster from your hospital & how to prepare your health facility to overcome disasters...