Public Health Planning for Response to Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism

Wednesday February 18th, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: Grande Ballroom

Workshop

Session Number: 42

This course will educate state and local public health officials on preparing for radiological and nuclear terrorism incidents. It is based on a CDC-initiated public health toolkit that provides education, skills training, public education tools, and guidelines for a public health response to large-scale radiological incidents. The course will provide live excerpts of educational content from the toolkit on topics of key consideration: radiation principles and incident scenarios, the role of communications, population monitoring, community reception center operations, the role of local government, and pharmaceutical countermeasures. Suggestions for using the toolkit products to educate the public health work force will be provided.

*Please note the room has changed

More Than Words: Powersizing Your Emergency Communications Through Comics and Pictograms*

Wednesday February 18th, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: Harbor Island 1

Workshop

Session Number: 101

In this workshop, participants will stretch their creative muscles. Interactive exercises will prompt discussion on how images, visual design, word choice, and context convey meaning to diverse audiences. Presenters will offer their experiences in developing partnerships to improve the quality and effectiveness of signage and other visual communication products. The use of comics to convey emergency preparedness messages will be introduced. Techniques for effective risk communication using the comics medium will be discussed and participants will try their hands at storyboarding and comics messaging. They also will play with pictograms (universal symbols and picture messages), tapping into the power of visual communication.

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*This Workshop is an Advanced Practice Center Training

Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) for Chemical Burns and Toxic Products of Combustion

Wednesday February 18th, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: Harbor Island 2

Workshop

Session Number: 317

After completing this workshop, which includes an interactive, tabletop, case-based scenario, participants will show competence in responding to victims of exposure to carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, acids, bases, oxidizers, white phosphorus, and hydrofluoric acid. They will be able to: 1) list the routes of exposure for these poisons; 2) describe characteristic signs and symptoms of exposure; 3) recite the various treatment paradigms; and 4) describe the treatment of patients who are exposed.