#3 - Handling Contaminated Victims

Discusses the special attention that contamination victims require and how victims become contaminated through various routes of exposure. Outlines various symptoms of exposure, including SLUDGEM and the ABC guidelines, and the importance of using the Emergency Response Guidebook for assistance. Demonstrates decontamination for ambulatory and nonambulatory individual victims, including the decontamination of areas of injury. Discusses the packaging and transport of contamination victims for hospital treatment.

Training Objectives:
1. Show how victims become contaminated at hazardous materials incidents
2. Present the symptoms of exposure to certain hazardous materials
3. Demonstrate basic decontamination, packaging and transport procedures for exposed victims

Run time - 20:45

Firefighters Bookstore Item # DEC003