Chapter 57 provides knowledge of hazardous materials awareness. This chapter define hazardous materials terminology, identify legislation about hazardous materials that influences emergency health care workers, describe resources to assist in identification and management of hazardous materials incidents,. | 9/11/2012 1 Chapter 57 Hazardous Materials Awareness 2 Learning Objectives • Define hazardous materials terminology. • Identify legislation about hazardous materials that influences emergency health care workers. • Describe resources to assist in identification and management of hazardous materials incidents. 3 Copyright © 2013 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company 1 9/11/2012 Learning Objectives • Identify the protective clothing and equipment needed to respond to selected hazardous materials incidents. • Describe the pathophysiology and signs and symptoms of internal damage caused by exposure to selected hazardous materials. • Identify the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, and prehospital management of selected hazardous materials that produce external damage. 4 Learning Objectives • Outline the prehospital response to a hazardous materials emergency. • Describe medical monitoring and rehabilitation of rescue workers who respond to a hazardous materials emergency. 5 Learning Objectives • Describe emergency decontamination and management of patients who have been contaminated by hazardous materials. • Outline the eight steps to decontaminate rescue personnel and equipment at a hazardous materials incident. 6 Copyright © 2013 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company 2 9/11/2012 Scope of Hazardous Materials • Hazardous material defined as “any substance or material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property” – More than 50 billion tons of hazardous materials are made in . each year – About 2 billion tons are shipped within . – From 1998 to 2007, . Department of Transportation (DOT) reports there were 141 hazmat transportation‐related fatalities, roughly 14 per year • Of these, 124 deaths were on highways and 17 were rail‐ related 7 Scope of Hazardous Materials • Emergency responses to vehicular crashes are common – .
