Leading from Preparedness Through Recovery - The 2012 ...

wednesday, May 23, 2012Session Descriptionssession Descriptionsu Assess the ability of the participants’ current organization,infrastructure, and communications capability to support effectivepatient tracking during emergencies.Intended Audience: Certified counselors, dentists, emergencyphysicians, EMT/paramedics, healthcare executives, health educationspecialists, industrial hygienists, marriage & family therapists, medicaladministrators, nurses, physicians, social workersSession 11: Zombie Emergency: All-Hazards EmergencyPreparedness InstructionPresenter: Jeffrey Bratberg, MDTime: 1030-1145 hrsRoom: Delta BFocus Area: Response Integration/Operational MedicineIn May 2011, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Health Matters Blogposted one of the most commented-upon and viewed posts on all-hazardspreparedness, Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse (http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/). In thespring of 2012, the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy organizedan elective class, Public Health Consequences of Infectious Diseases, onemerging infectious diseases, including a practical component on all-hazardsemergency preparedness and response. While the didactic portions of theclass involved student groups researching and presenting past responsesto actual emerging infectious disease outbreaks, the practical responseinvolved students planning and testing a new College of Pharmacy buildingas a primary point of dispensing (POD) during an outbreak of a hypotheticalinfection that creates zombies, thus mimicking an outbreak of an unknown,yet highly communicable and terrifying infectious disease. Using borrowedsignage and materials from the state health department’s Center forEmergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR) municipal POD Go-Kit, thestudents set up a POD in real time and recruited faculty, staff, and studentsas volunteers to attend the POD, serve in the POD, and attack the POD aszombies. Evaluators from other universities, cities and towns, and the statewere able to view the POD flow and activities through the glassed-in roomsused in the POD. This activity was also combined with a student pharmacist–run repackaging exercise in association with CEPR, providing “Zombiecycline”for dispensing in the POD. Evaluators also observed the activity. Finally, fourgroups of student pharmacists in the elective class produced public serviceannouncements outlining the mitigation, preparedness, response, andrecovery from the zombie apocalypse, with guidance from the CDC PublicHealth Preparedness and Response Zombie Task Force. It is hoped that thePOD location will be used for future actual and exercise responses, potentiallyincluding pharmacist-administered influenza immunizations to the staff,faculty, and students at the university as a pandemic influenza exercise.Learning Objectives:u Define the value of collaboration of university health professionalschools, CDC, and state health departments in emergency responsetraining activities.u Evaluate the effectiveness and pitfalls of using a technologicallyadvanced university building as a POD site staffed by studentvolunteers.u Develop a plan to enhance higher education and public healthcollaboration for all-hazards preparedness and response.Intended Audience: Certified counselors, dentists, emergencyphysicians, EMT/paramedics, healthcare executives, health educationspecialists, industrial hygienists, marriage & family therapists, medicaladministrators, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, social workersSession 12: Operational Medicine: Past, Present,and FuturePresenters: CAPT Allen Dobbs, MD; David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL,FACEP; Sean Siler, DOTime: 1030-1145 hrsRoom: Governor’s BFocus Area: Response Integration/Operational MedicineWhat is operational medicine? Operational medicine (OPMED) is definedas care provided in an unconventional setting where access to traditionalresources may be significantly limited. This can include working with limitedsupplies, staffing, or time as well as under extremes of climate, location, orenvironment. OPMED includes components of disaster, military, wilderness,frontier, emergency, pre-hospital, tactical, and international medicine.The concept of OPMED, perhaps best defined by the military experience,resonates with the emergency preparedness and response community.“Good medicine under challenging conditions” is an appropriate phrasefrom Afghanistan to Joplin. Whether from war or disaster, the practice ofmedicine in an affected community will be significantly different comparedto one that is intact. Poor environmental conditions, limited supplies, longhours, and high patient volumes are common variables regardless of thesetting. However, fundamental differences exist between the military andcivilian practice of OPMED. These differences will shape the delivery of carein the civilian disaster environment.The presenters will introduce examples of OPMED missions, discuss howOPMED principles may differ from the typical care delivered in the UnitedStates, and emphasize the opportunities for ESF#8 responders to benefitfrom the lessons learned across the other disciplines of OPMED from aroundthe globe. This session will serve as a kickoff lecture to frame the othersessions in the new OPMED track at the 2012 Integrated Training Summit.This session will explore many of the issues faced by civilian practitionersin the disaster environment and address how they may be able to adaptsome of the principles of OPMED to help them carry out their mission. Inparticular, the panel will discuss how the concepts of OPMED have beenand will be incorporated into the ESF#8 response to disasters and publichealth emergencies. The presenters have experience in civilian and militarymedicine under a wide range of environments.Learning Objectives:u Define what the specialty of operational medicine is and the role ofoperational medicine in ESF#8.u Explain common conceptual approaches to operational medicinepatients, and then define how the environment of care requiresvariations.382012 Integrated Training Summit