The training material for decontamination has been developed to meet the need to practice the work and planning required for the care of chemically contaminated patients. ETS decontamination material can be used for competence development for health care personnel. The decontamination set is doctrine free and can be used within any organization and decontamination protocols.
You can use the material for training or testing. It can for example be used for testing the decontamination organization, testing the surge capacity regarding lack of material or personnel. All victims in the decontamination set can be evaluated with patient outcome which give a result that can be used in evaluation.
Victim bank chemical
The material consists of different victim banks who have been contaminated in various degrees with a chemical substance. The victim banks are:
- Irritant gases (for ex ammonia) – patient C1-C100
- Cyanide – patient C101-C150
- Nerve agents (for ex Sarin) – patient C151-C200
Other material
Included in the material is also signs to use on whiteboard to display a decontamination unit, treatment and activity stickers, magnetic symbols illustrating different resources and different templates for helping setting up and evaluate exercises. A manual is included as a pdf-file.
The decontamination at hospital set is available in three sizes: large, medium and small set. In large set is all chemically patients included (patient C1-C200), medium includes 150 patients (C1-C50, 101-C200) and small set included 100 patients (C1-C50, C101-C125, C151-C175).