Emergency Incident RehabilitationFor courses in Paramedics. Emergency Incident Rehabilitation provides firefighters and other emergency responders with the most comprehensive presentation of emergency incident rehabilitation operations to date. It explores rehab operations in the contexts of both tactics of fire operations and the provision of medical evaluation, monitoring, and treatment. The book sets out nuts-and-bolts information that can be used by emergency operations of any size. The information contained in this book will allow departments to meet the intent of NFPA 1500 and is in agreement with the principles of the National Fire Service Incident Management system (IMS). |
Contents
The Functions of a Rehab Operation | 12 |
Rehab Within the Incident Management System | 36 |
Rehabs Role in the Personnel Accountability System | 50 |
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