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Residency Spotlight: Olwens Community College Center for Emergency Preparedness

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Fun fact: MedWAR was co-founded by one of our faculty in 2001. Finally our program conducts an annual EMS Day with local prehospital agencies during which our residents participate in hazmat and tactical medical training, rope rappelling and rescue, MVC extraction, and culminates in a mass casualty incident.

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Episode 4: Chemical incidents

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Self-care Decontamination within a Chemical Exposure Mass-casualty Incident. 2001; 306(16): 1751-1753. It’s great, so have a read: [link] Further Reading Monteith RG. Pearce LDR. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2015; 30: 288-296. link] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.