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PEDS 10. Toxic Exposures
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Learning Objectives
Vulnerability of Children
- Understand the increased vulnerability of children exposed to toxins.
- Analyze the causes of the increased vulnerability of children to toxins.
Response in Toxicological Disaster Situations
- Identify the basic goals of toxicological disaster preparedness.
- Delineate the priorities of disaster scene staging and patient management in the event of an incident involving hazardous materials.
- Define a hazardous material.
- List the factors to be considered in the planning of and response to a toxicological disaster.
Personal Protective Equipment
- Describe the different types of rescue personal protective equipment.
- Recognize the different levels of protection provided by various equipments.
- Know the initial management in radiation disasters.
- Consider climatic and geographical factors in the disaster scene.
- Describe the steps to be completed after the use of protective equipments.
General Approach to the Toxicological Patient
- Review the assessment and initial treatment of children with toxic exposures.
- Discuss the importance of decontamination in toxicological disasters.
- Describe the decontamination process.
Natural Disasters
- Analyze the association between natural disasters and potential exposure to hazard materials.
- Describe the most common toxic exposures in natural disasters.
- Discuss the signs and symptoms, and the management for these exposures.
Man-Made Disasters
- Describe the appropriate management for possible toxic exposures in manmade disasters.
- Recognize the main physical characteristics of toxins.
- List the potential sources of toxic chemicals.
- Describe the characteristics of biologic exposures.
- Discuss the characteristics of radiation exposures.
- Describe the clinical presentation and management of radiation exposures.
- Discuss the features of thermomechanical disasters.
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