Disaster Life Support of North America

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CMS regulations, JCAHO standards, NRP/NIMS and the NIMS Implementation Center Hospital and Healthcare Facility Plan mandate a new level of Disaster Planning, Preparation and Practice. This mandate creates a market pressure towards Comprehensive Immersion Simulation Training that includes a “Crawl – Walk – Run” approach to Disaster Exercise programs for staff and ICS training for administration.  

Disaster Life Support of North America has developed a program that provides all required education and drills to meet all patient safety, disaster preparedness/response and community/multi-agency drills required under CMS regulations, JCAHO standards, NRP/NIMS and the NIMS Implementation Center Hospital and Healthcare Facility Plan. The program provides client hospitals and healthcare facilities with comprehensive disaster planning, preparation and response training, significant patient safety improvement through the use of simulation based training and demonstrable cost savings compared to the present market approach to these processes while protecting these clients from potential financial harm.

C5RITICAL: Continuous Casualty Care Course Series

This flagship training program for DLS of North America is based on a model already well proven and the gold standard military casualty care training.  C5RITICAL utilizes Immersion Simulation Training environments to enhance learning by fully engaging all the senses.  In this controlled environment, participants in large scale training will have the opportunity to attend lectures and tabletop simulation exercises for all aspects of medical and psychological disaster response.  

This 5 day course is co-produced and co-presented with Medical Planning Resources (MPR) and includes 2 Tabletop Drill, one Walk-Through Drill and a 5 hour long Patient Influx Drill. The Patient Influx drill includes all phases of the event cycle (Field, Surge, Triage, Decon, Acute Care and Inpatient Treatment).  

C5RITICAL meets all current and proposed CMS, JCAHO and NIMS/NRP requirements for Disaster and Patient Safety Drill for a given 2 year training cycle. C5RITICAL is an immersion simulation program which may incorporate training for the following courses: 

·         Advanced Disaster Life Support™ (ADLS®) 

·         Basic Disaster Life Support™ (BDLS®) 

·         Core Disaster Life Support™ (CDLS®) 

·         ICS 100 

·         ICS 200 

·         ICS 700 

·         ICS 800 

·         National Patient Safety Initiative (NPSI) Provider Training 

·         Mass Decon Management for Healthcare First Receivers (MDM-HFR) 

·         Psychological First Aid for Healthcare First Receivers (PFA-HFR) 

Within one to two days, participants become both familiar with the simulation environment and comfortable in operating in it. Part of their training experience relies on participants developing this level of comfort. Once they have established a level of comfort, and even routine, within the environment, the live disaster drills begin.  These unannounced drills involve participants Donning and Doffing Level C personal protective equipment and performing wet decontamination on simulated victims, as well as mannequins. The final day of training involves a full scale disaster drill that incorporates community response elements, fire/rescue, EMS, law enforcement, HAZMAT, and whenever possible, other health care facilities. The drill concentrates on the hospital’s role in the response and will be videoed, graded and an edited copy of the video provided to the hospital as verification of the drill for hospital accreditation purposes.  DLS of North America will offer three version of this immersion simulation training 

• C5RITICAL: Continuous Casualty Care Course – Civilian

Healthcare First Receiver and Healthcare First Responder training program incorporating the nationally accredited training to help healthcare professionals and institutions Be D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. R.E.A.D.Y. & P.L.A.N. to Save Lives and Livelihoods. 

 

• C5RITICAL: Continuous Casualty Care Course – Corporate

Business and Corporate training program incorporating the ER for Business Series for instantaneous decision making with business continuity training designed to help clients Be D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. R.E.A.D.Y. & P.L.A.N. for Business Continuity.

 

• C5RITICAL: Continuous Casualty Care Course – Community

Community-wide training program integrating vulnerability assessment, contingency planning, business continuity training and healthcare education to help communities to Be D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. R.E.A.D.Y. & P.L.A.N. to Save Lives and Livelihoods. 

Products and Services for Individual Healthcare Professionals

Disaster Life Support of North America, Inc. (DLS of North America) offers two National Disaster Life Support (NDLS®) programs constructed around the D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. Paradigm™ and are designed to teach core concepts of disaster management.  These programs allow more effective recognition and response to medical disasters.  M.A.S.S. Triage™ is taught to allow healthcare providers to more effectively assist in the mitigation of the disaster and the process of triage.

• The Core Disaster life Support™ (CDLS®) course is a half-day awareness-level course that is designed for non-medical providers, community leaders, emergency planners and healthcare/hospital administrators. 

 

• The Basic disaster Life Support™ (BDLS®) course is primarily didactic in nature and is presented in a seminar format.

Disaster Life Support of North America, Inc. can also provide instructors for the following advanced training programs:  

• The Advanced disaster Life Support™ (ADLS®) course makes use of interactive scenarios and drills in which the participants treat simulated patients in a disaster.  Through the use of high-fidelity mannequins, the student can gain experience in treating conditions that they would normally not treat even with years of experience.  Hands-on labs to practice skills such as decontamination provide education in areas traditionally lacking in healthcare-provider education.  BDLS® and ADLS™ are designed primarily for the healthcare provider and medical first responder

• Advanced HAZMAT Life Support™

DLS of North America recently developed the Healthcare First Receiver training series based the Department of Homeland Security’s new civilian training programs. While the National Disaster Life Support Foundation courses are designed for individuals, Healthcare First Receiver training is designed to train hospital personnel in the same teams they will work in on the job. 

• Mass Decon Management for Healthcare First Receivers (MDM-HFR) is a comprehensive hospital based patient decontamination program based on the Department of Homeland Security and Veterans Administration’s Mass Decontamination Training for Healthcare First Receivers.

 

• Mass Fatality Management for Healthcare First Receivers (MFM-HFR) is a comprehensive hospital based fatality management program based on the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA’s Mass Fatality Management Training combined with the new Psychological First Aid training.

 

• Psychological First Aid for Healthcare First Receivers (PFA-HFR) is a comprehensive hospital based disaster behavioral health program based on the Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Veterans Administration’s Psychological First Aid Training for Healthcare First Receivers combined with a customized integrated triage program based on medical START/RPM triage and DLS of North America’s psychological PRM triage (Raging, Periodic & Maintaining).

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BDLS®, CDLS®, ADLS®, DISASTER Paradigm™, MASS Triage™, Basic Disaster Life Support™, Core Disaster Life Support™, Advanced Disaster Life Support™, NDLS™, NDLSF™, NDLSEC™, National Disaster Life Support™, National Disaster Life Support Foundation™, and National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium™ are trademarks of the American Medical Association.

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