Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS)

June 17-18, 2014
Summary
Region 7 Healthcare Coalition hosted the Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS) immediately following the Basic course (BDLS) at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center on June 17th-18th.

The course was offered to those who had completed the BDLS course within the last 3 years who have one of the following specialties: physicians, nurses, paramedics, public and allied health professionals, intermediate EMTs, and pharmacists. 
The first day of the course was classroom instruction as well as interactive learning, covering the following topics: mass triage, personal protective equipment and decontamination, disaster skills for medical disaster management, and detection and proper treatment of conditions that may occur during a disaster using a human patient simulator. The second day of the course reinforced the materials learned the previous day allowing the students to participate in hands on training.