Fundamental Disaster Management Course ensures healthcare professionals are prepared to treat victims of natural or man-made mass casualty events. The course arms critical care professionals with the expertise to manage the critical care response to large-scale disasters. It focuses on critically ill patients who are admitted to your hospital and is a must for clinicians who may come in contact with critically ill and/or injured patients after a mass casualty event.

• Didactic lectures
• Case-based skill stations
• Pre and Post tests
• Companion textbook
• Certificate of successful course completion

• Introduction: Fundamental Disaster Management

• ICU Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response

• Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster

• Critical Care Management of Chemical Exposures

• Biohazard Disasters: Natural and Intentional Outbreaks

• Critical Care Management of Radiologic Exposures

• Blast Injuries

• Mass Casualty Burn Care

• Disasters Produced by Natural Phenomena

• Caring for Critically Ill Children and Chronically Ill Patients During Disasters

• Delivering Acute Care to Chronically Ill Adults in Shelters

• Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resources

• Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside Traditional Intensive Care Units

• Impact 754

• LP10

• Personal Protective Equipment

• Triage

• LTV 12000

• Entry-level residents
• Medical officers
• Trainees in critical care & emergency medicine
• Non-Intensivist taking care of critical care patients
• Critical care health professionals with the expertise to manage the critical care response to large-scale disasters.

• Attending all didactic sessions
• Successful completion of all skill stations
• Achieve a score of 70% or higher in the post-test examination

2 Days