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Appendix F
Pages 91-100

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... APPENDIX F Excerpts from the National Disaster Medical System Home Page ·Source: National Disaster Medical System home page, http://mediccom.org/public/tadmat/ndms/ ndms.html, accessed November 6, 1997.
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... .................................................................................................................................................................................................... US Public Health Service: Dept of Health and~Human Services ~ ~ .........................................................................................................................................
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... , medical response includes an assessment of health & medical needs, provides medical care personnel including health / medical equipment and supplies by deployment of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT)
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... U.S. Public Health Service 2.
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... Some of the DMAT Functions include triage of victims at the disaster site. Providing sophisticated medical care in austere conditions and maintaining casualty clearing or staging locations just outside the site of the disaster.
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... ~D~SS1~istics loft hup:~med~com.org~ubUc4adm~Endms~dms~nl AIDS S1811stics MUMS Coordin~iDg Centers 72 Geogr~bic Areas 107 P=icip~ing Hospitals 17818 Precompiled beds 1 1 0~603 Individuals federally enrolled in D~ATs 3~000 11/06/9711:31:14
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... Teams are composed of Funeral Directors, Medical Examiners, Coroners Pathologists, Forensic Anthropologists, Medical Records Technicians and Transcribers, Finger Print Specialists Forensic Odontologists, Dental Assistants, X-ray Technicians, Mental Health Specialists, Computer Professionals, Administrative support staff, and Security and Investigative personnel. The NFMC, in support of the NDMS DMORT program, maintains a Mobile Mortuary Container at Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona.
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... under Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF #at to provide assistance in assessing the extent of disruption and need for veterinary services following major `disasters or emergencies. These responsibilities include: assessment of clinical needs of animals animal care and handling animal sheltering and evacuation animal inspection and disease surveillance technical assistance hazard mitigation In order to accomplish this mission, NDMS entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
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