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FDM - Handbook, Fundamental Disaster Management is now available in Spanish
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The Fundamental Disaster Management, Third Edition (FDM) course handbook is the reference and source for the standardized course comprised of 11 lectures and two skill stations. The handbook is appropriate for all health care professionals wanting to be prepared to assist patients resulting from man-made or natural disasters, and other personnel who care for the critically ill and injured.
The FDM course was prepared under the direction of the Society of Critical Care by leading multiprofessional critical care educators with expertise in disaster preparedness.
Chapters include topics on:
- Disaster Preparation for the Critical Care Provider - Setting the Stage
- Intensive Care Unit Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response
- Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster
- Critical Care Management of Chemical Exposures
- Intentional and Natural Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
- Critical Care Management of Radiological Exposures
- Conventional Explosions and Blast Injuries
- Mass Casualty Burn Care
- Disasters Produced by Natural Phenomena
- Caring for Critically Ill Children
- Delivering Acute Care to Chronically Ill Adults in Shelters
- Palliative Care and Mental Health Issues
- Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resouces
- Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside of Traditional Intensive Care Units
- Personal Protective Equipement and Decontamination Management Strategies
If you would like information on the FDM program, please contact the SCCM office at (847) 827-6869 or info@sccm.org.
2. Translated Textbook
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CATASTROFES EN ESPAÑOL
Catástrofes
Catástrofes Description
FDM EN ESPAÑOL
Catástrofes: bases para su manejo
Este libro ofrece los conocimientos fundamentales y las destrezas prácticas necesarias para que todo el personal médico, al margen de su especialidad, pueda responder de forma eficiente a las catástrofes naturales o a las provocadas por el hombre. Los capítulos, escritos por destacados especialistas en catástrofes y en medicina de emergencia, abarcan los siguientes temas:
» Función de los profesionales de la medicina
» Comunicaciones eficaces en las catástrofes
» Tratamiento médico en los incidentes con víctimas múltiples
» Organización de un plan de respuesta para las catástrofes
» Catástrofes naturales
» Exposición a la radiación
» Agentes químicos y síndromes relacionados
» Bioterrorismo
”Catástrofes: Bases para su manejo” se creó para proporcionar una orientación clínica, así como una herramienta terapéutica estratégica. Este libro de consulta, con organigramas, tablas y gráficos informativos de sencilla lectura, constituye la base para una respuesta médica concreta a las catástrofes. Es un proyecto con autores internacionales y como tal, ofrece una perspectiva global válida para las situaciones de catástrofe en todo el mundo. Como novedad figuran los aspectos pediátricos. Publicado Septiembre del año 2003, 7 capítulos. El libro “Catástrofes:
Bases para su manejo” es esencial al curso de entrenamiento FDM y es un valioso libro de referencia para utilizar en el ambiente de un catástrofe,a hoy y en el futuro.
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3. Instructor Notes
Thank you very much for your interest in becoming an instructor in the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Fundamentals of Disaster Management (FDM) Program. The FDM Steering Committee members appreciate your commitment to improving patient care through this course.
Elegibility criteria for Instructors are:
- Health care providers having successfully completed the Fundamental of DisasterManagement course (FDM) including skill stations and reviewed the Instructor Curriculumwith the Course Director.
- First responders having successfully completed the FDM course, including skill stations and reviewed the instructor curriculum with the Course Director.
Certificates for Successful Completion will be issued by the SCCM.
Successful completion of the course requires a grade of 70% on the written post-test, satisfactory performance at the skill stations, attendance through the course, and submission of the course evaluation documents.
FDM Instructors should ideally represent 50% of the FDM faculty. A required minimum of two FDM Instructors must be present for each course.
Please contact the FDM office at (847) 827-6869 or info@sccm.org for more information
4. Course Calendar
A list of upcoming FDM courses is available here.
To register for any of the FDM COURSES listed, please call or email the sponsoring facility directly. Not all courses will accept outside registrants or offer the Instructor candidate curriculum.