Course InformationBDLSADLSCDLSNDLS-DECONADLS InstructoreBDLSeCDLSCourse AvailabilityRecertification |
| BDLS® is targeted to multiple disciplines including: emergency medical service (EMS) personnel, hazardous materials personnel, public health personnel, and health care providers. By teaching multiple disciplines simultaneously, a commonality of approach and language will develop, improving the care and coordination of response in WMD disaster and public health emergencies. |
| ADLS™ is an advanced practicum of the principles introduced in Basic Disaster Life Support™ (BDLS®). ADLS™ includes lectures on the following: MASS Triage™ in detail; community and hospital disaster planning; media and communications during disasters; mass fatality management. In addition small group interactive sessions allow students to work through a series of difficult questions of disaster management in a table top format. |
| The CDLS Course v.3.0 is a 3.5 hour competency-based, awareness-level course that introduces clinical and public health concepts and principles for the management of disasters and public health emergencies. The course incorporates the "all-hazards" approach to personal, institutional, and community disaster management through the use of two unique mnemonics, the PRE-DISASTER Paradigm™ (which applies to event mitigation and preparedness) and the DISASTER Paradigm™ (which applies to event recognition, response, and recovery). The overarching aim of the CDLS Course is to provide participants from diverse professions, disciplines, and backgrounds with a common lexicon, vocabulary, and knowledge in disaster-related medicine and public health. |
| The ability to decontaminate a large number of victims from a chemical or radiological event will require large numbers of personnel trained and equipped to provide decontamination. Although healthcare providers in PPE will be needed to render immediate care and triage victims, the majority of the workforce to provide decontamination in a disaster of this nature should be non-medical provider, hospital based personnel. This program is designed to meet this need. After completing CDLS™ as the awareness level program, students complete an additional 8 hrs of instruction over 2 days. Students also serve as victims for other students to practice decontamination so 2 full days is required to complete CDLS™ and NDLS-D™. |
| The ADLS Instructor course is provided for those students of ADLS® who desire to become instructors. The half-day course includes instruction in coordinating and conducting the four rotation stations of ADLS®. |
| The eBDLS™ course is the on-line version of Basic Disaster Life Support™(BDLS®). Recognizing that many potential students of BDLS® are unable to arrange for attendance at a live course, BDLS® has been made available for distance learning. The added advantage of the on-line approach is that the student may take the course in multiple sessions over a period of several days or weeks; it is self paced. The eBDLS™ course consists of nine (9) lessons covering the standardized BDLS® curriculum. The presentation is interactive and employs text, slides, recorded lectures, and end-of-lesson examinations. Only the final examination is counted towards completion. |
| The eCDLS™ course is the on-line version of Core Disaster Life Support (CDLS®). Recognizing that many potential students of CDLS® are unable to arrange for attendance at a live course, CDLS® has been made available for distance learning. The added advantage of the on-line approach is that the student may take the course in multiple sessions over a period of several days or weeks; it is self paced. This course was developed by the AMA under a grant received from the US Department of Homeland Security. |
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