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Training Capabilities – Medical Disaster Preparedness Training

Advanced Disaster Life Support Training (ADLS)

The UNLV Institute for Security Studies offers advanced medical disaster preparedness training to ready first responders and hospital staff for mass fatality incidents, mass triage, decontamination, explosive event trauma, and facility disaster planning. After successfully completing Basic Disaster Life Support, participants will benefit from Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS), a course that combines instruction with the hands-on application of concepts taught in Basic Disaster Life Support.

What can you expect? Small group interactive sessions will allow you to answer a series of challenging disaster management questions in a tabletop setting. You will also participate in a series of skill stations designed to reinforce concepts first introduced in BDLS. Practical skill stations include:

• Human Patient Simulators for trauma scenarios

• M-A-S-S Triage

• Disaster Skills

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Decontamination

• Patient Care Scenarios

In addition, you will utilize high-fidelity simulators to practice the treatment of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) casualties. The American College of Emergency Physicians endorses the National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) courses as the gold standard in all-hazards training for medical response to mass casualty incidents.

The instructional component of ADLS includes training on the following:

• Mass fatality management

• Legal issues

• Federal, state, and local resource use

Designed to meet your requirements

• ADLS meets the CFR1910.120 requirement for Hazardous Materials Operations.

• Participation in the ADLS course qualifies for 13 American Medical Association (AMA) Category 1 credits and qualifies for 1.6 continuing education units (CEUs) from UNLV.

Register for training by contacting Ross Bryant at (702) 939-4625 or ross.bryant@unlv.edu.