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With critical new content and engaging analysis on modern disasters, NAEMT's All Hazards Disaster Response, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and interactive training resource to prepare EMS professionals for disaster scenarios in any region. In just eight hours, clinicians learn to analyze potential threats, assess resources, and create a solid response plan to save lives. Whether confronted with natural disasters, hazmat incidents, infectious diseases, or hostile events, they will be prepared to establish command structure, evaluate available resources, and communicate effectively with dispatch and fire departments. The second edition builds on the first edition and features even more of what EMS professionals must know during 21st-century disasters: - New chapter on mass-casualty incidents, including those with active shooters - New chapter on explosions and blast injuries, with clear advice on PPE and triage - New chapter on EMS roles and responsibilities from start to finish during disasters - New chapter on the Incident Command System, its components, and roles - New section on multisystem trauma with a focus on special patient populations - Updated content on natural disasters, hazardous materials, nuclear disasters, and infectious diseases and biological disasters Invest in the premier course in disaster management to empower clinicians with evidence-based knowledge, skills they can use on arrival, and the confidence to care for multiple patients. Whether they're first on scene or arrive with others, EMS professionals trained in NAEMT's All Hazards Disaster Response, Second Edition, will know immediately how to care for patients while keeping themselves, their team, and the public safe during a disaster.

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Formed in 1975 and more than 32,000 members strong, the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) is the nation’s only organization solely dedicated to representing the professional interests of all EMS practitioners, including paramedics, emergency medical technicians, emergency medical responders and other professionals working in prehospital emergency medicine. NAEMT members work in all sectors of EMS, including government service agencies, fire departments, hospital-based ambulance services, private companies, industrial and special operations settings, and in the military. NAEMT represents all EMS practitioners in promoting: • Greater understanding and appreciation by government agencies at the local, state and national levels of the role that EMS plays in our nation's health care, public safety, and disaster response systems. • Pay and benefits that reflects their professional training, responsibilities and dedication. • Leadership at the federal level that fosters and supports the delivery of quality EMS nationwide. • Adequate and sustainable funding for EMS in all locations. • Public policy that supports EMS practitioners and the patients they serve.

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