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Disasters: What you could have known… What you wished you would have known… What you can do now!

Disasters: What you could have known… What you wished you would have known… What you can do now!. Lou E. Romig MD, FAAP, FACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Miami Children’s Hospital Medical Director, FL5 DMAT. Did we know about the possibilities of a “Katrina scenario” before it happened?.

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Disasters: What you could have known… What you wished you would have known… What you can do now!

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  1. Disasters:What you could have known…What you wished you would have known…What you can do now! Lou E. Romig MD, FAAP, FACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Miami Children’s Hospital Medical Director, FL5 DMAT

  2. Did we know about the possibilities of a “Katrina scenario” before it happened? FEMA Photo Library

  3. Believing Committing Knowing Doing

  4. Medical Model Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Preventive Medicine =

  5. Do pediatricians have a role in preventive medicine? • Believe it’s worth the investment • Practice it ourselves • Teach our patients and their families • Participate in preventive medicine efforts • Advocate for institutionalization of preventive health measures

  6. Do pediatricians have a role in disaster preparedness? • Believe it’s worth the investment • Practice it ourselves • Teach our patients and their families • Participate in disaster preparedness and response efforts • Advocate for institutionalization of disaster preparedness and mitigation

  7. Culture of Preparedness: Believe! Excrement occurs! Disasters don’t happen to places.

  8. Lou Romig

  9. Earthquake in Memphis? Hurricane in New York? Tsunami in Alaska? Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City? Atlanta?

  10. Culture of Preparedness Disasters don’t happen to places. Disasters happen to people.

  11. FEMA Photo Library Lou Romig

  12. Culture of Preparedness Disasters don’t happen to places. Disasters happen to people. Disasters can happen to us.

  13. Lou Romig

  14. Disaster preparedness is a personal responsibility: My family and friends My home My livelihood My patients Mycommunity

  15. Personal Preparedness • Risk assessment • Natural hazards • Nonintentional man-made hazards • Intentional man-made hazards • Plan for all reasonable hazards

  16. Risk Assessment: Natural • Weather • Geography • Home • Schools • Office/Hospital • Epidemiology • Port of entry • Travel destination

  17. Risk Assessment: Man-made • Industry • Chemicals • Explosives/Fires • Transportation • Hubs • Through traffic

  18. Risk Assessment: Man-made • Seats of government/politics • Symbolic institutions and icons • Commerce and industrial centers • Transportation centers • Military bases • Religious and cultural institutions • Schools • Medical facilities • Mass gathering sites

  19. Environment Resources All Hazards Planning

  20. ADAPT to Environments Lou Romig Lou Romig Lou Romig FEMA Photo Library Lou Romig FL OEM Library

  21. STOCK your own resources All photos Lou Romig

  22. Personal Planning • Share your plans with family, friends and co-workers • Know the plans at family members’ schools and workplaces • Review and exercise your plans. Involve the kids! • Learn from your own experiences and those of others

  23. Personal and Family Disaster Planning Resources • www.aap.org/healthtopics/terrorism.cfm • AAP Family Readiness Kit • www.redcross.org • www.ready.gov • www.fema.gov • www.fifionline.org/disaster_planning.htm • www.nod.org (Emergency Preparedness) • www.jumpstarttriage.com

  24. Plan to protect your livelihood • Have disaster plans for your office and staff • Have appropriate hazard and business interruption insurance • Protect patient and business records. Make them transportable. • Plan how to continue your practice if your office is not functional • Make sure your patients know your plans

  25. A Disaster Preparedness Plan for Pediatricians Scott Needle MD, FAAP Mississippi Chapter AAP www.aap.org/healthtopics/terrorism.cfm

  26. Teaching patients and families • Disaster preparedness should be a part of anticipatory guidance. • Physicians should assist families in disaster planning for children with special healthcare needs and other chronic illnesses.

  27. Teaching patients and families Remember that any acute medical need can be a “disaster” for a family. Use tools like the AAP’s Emergency Information Form. www.aap.org/advocacy/emergprep.htm

  28. Start young! www.ready.gov/kids www.fema.gov/kids

  29. Participate: Planning • Local planning/training • Schools/childcare facilities • Shelters • Hospitals • Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) • Local NGO programs • Faith-based programs

  30. Participate: Planning • Regional/state planning • Professional associations • AAP, AMA • Healthcare networks • Public Health Departments • State EMS for Children Programs

  31. Participate: Response Become a part of the system before the disaster happens!

  32. Great volunteers… • Know the system in which they are enlisted to work • Have their credentials established and verified before the disaster • Understand liability issues • Know how to live and work in austere conditions • Bring their own supplies and support • Have the support of their families and co-workers

  33. Nightmare on Sesame Street! DHS NRP FEMA JFO ESF EMAC SNS NIMS USAR

  34. Federal Alphabet Soup • US Citizen Corps • Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) • Medical Reserve Corps (MRCs) • www.citizencorps.gov • Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 • National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) • Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) • International Medical-Surgical Response Teams (IMSuRTs) • Covered by USERRA regulations and Federal Tort Claims Act

  35. Institutionalizing Preparedness

  36. Institutionalizing Preparedness • Teach children about disaster preparedness • Incorporate disaster preparedness into workplace policies and procedures • Teach professions about pertinent aspects of disaster preparedness and response

  37. Institutionalizing Preparedness • Disaster preparedness incentives • Overcome financial obstacles to personal preparedness • Study the tangible value of preparedness and mitigation • Tackle liability issues

  38. Institutionalizing Preparedness • Recognize the strengths and limits of generosity and use it responsibly • Take the best advantage of volunteerism • Build strong teams

  39. Review • Turn knowledge into action • Take disasters personally • It’s OK to be selfish • Like injury and illness prevention and workplace safety measures, disaster preparedness should be a matter-of-fact part of our lives

  40. Review • Recognize the tangible values of preaction instead of reaction • Get on a team • Play well together

  41. Lou Romig

  42. Thank you! Presentation available at www.jumpstarttriage.com louromig@bellsouth.net Lou Romig

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