[californiadisasters] New Radiation Emergency Medical Management Memo (August, 2013) released

 

 

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Dear REMM ListServ Member:

                                               

We are pleased to announce major new versions of the REMM Web site and Mobile REMM app.

 

What's new on REMM, August, 2013?

• Key changes are noted below.
• Many more updates and changes not listed below appear throughout REMM.

1. REMM Multimedia Library: highlights

• New All Videos button in Multimedia Carousel presents entire REMM Video Library collection.
• List of all new multimedia updates (videos, graphs, photos) in the Multimedia Carousel
• Transportation Incidents Involving Radiation: 3 new videos

• Emergency Response to a Transportation Accident Involving Radioactive Material
• Pre-Hospital Practices for Handling a Radiologically Contaminated Patient
• Decontamination Dressdown at a Transportation Accident involving Radioactive Material

• Improvised Nuclear Device Detonation: 2 new items

• Shrinking Fallout Zones after IND Detonation
• Sheltering: Selecting a Safe Room After an IND incident

2. Update to the Isotopes of Interest table

• Strongly recommend download of new online REMM bundle and update of new Mobile REMM to capture these important changes.

3. "Other Audiences" section has 2 new groups

• Public Health Emergency Researchers
• Medical Examiners / Coroners
• Many new references and topics

4. New pages on REMM

• Collection of data: prototypes of forms for radiation safety and medical data tracking
• Describing an Incident: Definition, Severity, Phases, Timeline

5. Significant updates to key pages

• Nuclear Detonation: Weapons, INDs
• Transportation Incidents
• Triage Guidelines
• Nuclear Power Plant and Reactor Incidents: new page title and new content
• Burn Triage and Treatment: Thermal Injuries
• Strategic National Stockpile
• Planners: Preparedness and Response
• Public Information Officers

• Improvised Nuclear Device Response and Recovery: Communicating in the Immediate Aftermath (US Government Interagency Nuclear Detonation Response Communications Working Group, June 2013)
• Communicating During and After a Nuclear Power Plant Incident (US Government Interagency Nuclear Detonation Response Communications Working Group, June 2013)

• Training and Education: Educational Competencies for Health Care Professionals

6. Updated Prototype for Medical Orders
7. Updated fever and neutropenia information
8. REMM YouTube Channel updated
9. Improved REMM bibliography

 

What's new on Mobile REMM, August, 2013?

1. Updates to Isotopes of Interest
2. Links to REMM YouTube videos

 

Coming soon: October, 2013

1. Complete redesign of interactive tool: Managing ARS
2. Complete redesign of Mobile REMM app for iPhone, Android, Blackberry

 

 

We strongly suggest you update any versions of REMM you have previously downloaded to your computer, USB drive, or mobile device.

 

As always, if you have comments or questions, please Contact Us directly.

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