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ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER

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MASTERS PROGRAM
DISASTER MEDICINE

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Training programs that are designed to better prepare and protect our citizens against all-hazards disasters include:
Incident response to terrorist bombing (IRTB) 4 hours
The Terrorist Threat teaches how to identify potential terrorist targets and tactics in your communities, the
threat that suicide bombers pose and how to stop them. The course also introduces different types of explosives
present and describes the hazards involved in handling explosive materials.
Prevention and Response to Suicide Bombings Incidents (PRSBI) 3 hours
Defining the Suicide Bombing Threat provides an historic overview of suicide bombing, characteristics of a
suicide bomber, and how emergency organizations can disrupt and respond to a suicide bombing.
Emergency response to a weapon of mass destruction incident: 4-8 hours
The course is presented in a lecture, discussion, and hands-on format. Participants will have the opportunity for
extensive hands-on practice and experience, wearing respiratory protection and protective clothing, as well as
performing relevant skills based on their profession.
The Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS) 4-8 hours
This course will train the participant in the core set of concepts, principles, and organizational processes to
enable effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management at all levels within the healthcare setting in
response to an internal or external, all hazards incident.
Train the trainer program (TRTR) 4 hours
This program will train individuals to lead sessions on the topic of response to a weapon of mass destruction event.
The course is designed to train individuals to conduct a two part training session on the topic of WMD.
The first session will be a lecture giving background on WMD. The second involves hands on training during
which participants will have the opportunity to practice skills while wearing personal protective equipment.
Prereq: Emergency response to a weapon of mass destruction incident: 4hours
NFPA 473: Standard for Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents: 16 hours
If you are an EMS provider who responds to hazardous materials incidents and are in a position to provide direct
patient care regardless of whether or not you are part of a formal hazmat team, there is an NFPA standard
that exists to guide your practice. This course covers every aspect of the NFPA 473 standard for both Level 1
and Level 2 responders utilizing both didactic and practical sessions. Students will don/doff Level C PPE and
complete an obstacle course of clinical procedures, examine gross and technical decontamination operations,
build a medical monitoring and rehabilitation sector, review basic hazmat toxicology and prepare plans for
response to a hazmat incident. A course text, CD-ROM and other adjuncts are provided with course registration.
Prerequisites include Hazardous Materials Awareness and EMT certification. ALS level certification is desirable but not required.
NFPA 473: EMS Response to Haz-Mat Incident: 4-8 hours
This course will analyze a hazardous material emergency to determine what risks are present, as well as provide
a plan to respond to and provide emergency medical care to persons involved in a hazardous materials incident.
The material is based off of the guidelines of the National Fire Protection Association.
National Incident Management System (NIMS): 4-8 hours
This course will train the participant in the core set of concepts, principles, and organizational processes to enable
effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management at all levels based on the National Response Plan.
The Hospital Emergency Department Operations Level Training: 8 hours
Mass Casualty Response for Contaminated Victims from a Hazardous Materials or Weapons of Mass Destruction
Incident student, will upon successful completion of this course, shall be able to safely and effectively operate
as a hospital responder to contaminated patients according to OSHA 1910.120 and 1910.134.
Advanced Airway Management for the Special Operations Paramedic: 8 hours
As EMS special operations teams continue to develop and mature, emergency physician oversight of training as
well as response directly to these incidents has become more commonplace. Thus, the capability to deliver more
aggressive disaster medical care, including advanced airway management, has become possible. Airway management
courses in the United States have traditionally been designed for and offered only to physicians. This full-day course
has been specifically designed for the practicing Special Operations paramedic by one of the nation’s leading
emergency physician researchers in airway management. Students will review airway management research,
current techniques for difficult airways, and potential pitfalls of intubating patients in austere environments
and learn a novel approach to intubation using Dr. Levitan’s patented device, a fiber optic stylet for difficult
intubations. Prerequisites include current certification/licensure as an EMT-I, EMT-P, prehospital nurse or physician.
Mass Gathering Medicine: Awareness and Operations: 8 hours
Is your EMS agency responsible for development and execution of a medical action plan for an event(s) that
attracts more than 1000 participants and/or spectators? These events blend EMS, public health, emergency
management, incident command, fire and terrorism prevention and a host of other factors into an amalgam
that has become known as mass gathering medicine, a subspecialty of EMS Special Operations. Join two
authors of the nation’s only comprehensive text on the subject, Mass Gathering
Suicide Bombers: Case Studies form Israel: 2 hours
This presentation will address the response considerations to a suicide bombing attack for all emergency
services. The lecture is based on case studies that the lecturer responded to both in a response role as
well as a management role as a captain with the Jerusalem Police Department.
Anti-Terrorist Operational Security (OPSEC): 4 hours
This session will address the elements of OpSec and the importance of establishing and maintaining
Operational Security. The participant will understand how OpSec is achieved and lost and how to set up an
OpSec program within his/her organization. It will cover the adversary’s perspective: What we do unto
others, can be done unto us. This includes a 1-½ hour practical exercise.
Domestic Terrorism in the 21^st Century: 4 hours
Who the players are (organizations and leadership personnel) and their belief systems.
Modus Operandi of the 21^st century domestic terror groups. Helping business and industry pre-plan.
Core Disaster Life Support (CDLS): 4 hours
Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS): 8 hours
CDLS and BDLS will define All-Hazards terminology, and the D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R paradigm. To teach the student
how to recognize potential public health emergencies and their causes, risks, and consequences.
To describe per-hospital and hospital medical components of a disaster incident response along with
personal protective equipment and decontamination. Encouraging the student to research the resources
in his or her own community and beyond, as well as initiatives for their community.
Medical Care: The Medical Director’s Checklist: 1-2 Hours
Presentation on an approach to medical care delivery at events from 1000 to one million plus people
using evidence-based medicine and industry best practices. Students will receive a copy of the text with
registration. This course meets the concept of an operations level training curriculum.
NFPA 1584: Recommended Practice on Rehabilitation for Members Operating at Incident Scene Operations
and Training Exercises: 4 hours
This four hour in-depth course, created by an emergency medicine physician and physician’s assistant who
are both function as prehospital providers and fire department chief officers, is designed to introduce
students to the NFPA 1584 standard entitled Recommended Practice on Rehabilitation for Members Operating
at Incident Scene Operations and Training Exercises. Students will be presented with an explanation of why
emergency services personnel succumb more often to cardiovascular disease than to incident-related injury
and what best practices can be enacted during emergency incident rehabilitation to decrease risk of injury/illness
or death. Specific topics include epidemiology of firefighter death and injury (including current USFA statistics),
discussion of cardiovascular risk factors and disease among fire service personnel, signs and symptoms of
heat stress and cardiovascular disease on scene, development of SOPs for rehab sector operations and
medical monitoring of emergency responders, and evaluation, interpretation and management of abnormal
vital signs and physical findings. Students will then have an opportunity to build or walk though a model
rehab sector and discuss in small groups how to effectively monitor emergency responders and return them
to duty in a safe and expeditious manner. This course meets or exceeds the NFPA concept and definition of
an operations level curriculum for this subject matter.
A Primer on Technical Rescue Medicine for the Rescue Technician: 8 hours
The vast majority of personnel who comprise technical rescue teams are firefighters with significant rescue
background but limited medical training. Although formal medical support for technical rescue teams is becoming
more commonplace, there may be insufficient personnel for the task or more patients than EMS providers.
Thus, every rescue technician should have a basic understanding of what common and uncommon injuries
occur in victims found in a technical rescue setting and how they can assist medical personnel with diagnosis,
treatment and extrication. Join Mike Kurtz, lead paramedic for the Pennsylvania Urban Search and Rescue
Task Force, and Rob Roy, a technical rescue provider and career firefighter/EMT, as they cover the nuts
and bolts of the approach to a victim trapped in a variety of environments from the perspective of a rescue
technician. Prerequisites include EMT-Basic.
Incident Command System Basics: IS 100, 200 and 700: 8 hours
NFPA 1670 requires every fire department and EMS responder to a technical rescue incident to have a working
knowledge of the Incident Command System. The purpose of this course is to deliver the first two FEMA
Emergency Management Institute courses on ICS and the new course on NIMS in a structured format which
will allow instructors to present case vignettes and students to ask questions. At the conclusion of each module,
a group discussion will be conducted to answer the test questions that FEMA has created. Students will be
instructed how to log onto the FEMA EMI independent study website, enter the necessary demographic
data along with the answers to the questions and complete the process which will result in a certificate
from FEMA attesting to successful completion of each module.
Technical Rescue: The Complete “Awareness” Package (Structural Collapse, Confined Space, Trench,
Swift Water/Floodwater and Technical Rescue Medicine): 16 hours
NFPA 1670 requires that all personnel who respond to technical rescue incidents and participate in any
degree of incident management or rescue work be trained to at least the awareness level. This course is
primarily designed for those firefighters and EMS personnel who have not received formal training in
technical rescue, but desire to learn about and become trained to the awareness level in a variety of
technical rescue disciplines.
Technical Rescue Medicine: Awareness and Operations: 20 hours
This is a comprehensive course in the medical management of patients in the technical rescue environment.
Much of the class parallels the FEMA Medical Specialist curriculum, but the content is more broad based and
covers other aspects of the discipline besides just structural collapse. All original paramedics on the Bucks
County Technical Rescue Task Force have gone through this course and all have enjoyed it immensely.
Advanced Hazmat Life Support: 16 hours
This is the definitive nationally recognized resuscitation course in hazardous materials toxicology. Einstein
is the premier delivery agent for this course in the Mid-Atlantic region. The course is approved for EMS c
on-ed and certification is good for four years. The course is primarily designed for paramedics, physicians,
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The Center for Special Operations will train first responders and interested members of as outlined above.
Among other services and courses, the Center will utilize the above-mentioned training programs listed
above as the method to reach our objective, as well as offering the additional services as in designing
training modules, exercises and consultation projects.

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