Disaster Readiness - Improving Education, Training and Simulation

Summary: NDLS TM 4.0 – Continuously Revised, Continuously Improved Board of Directors*, National Disaster Life Support Foundation TM . The National Disaster Life Support Foundation TM (NDLSF TM ) is pleased to provide updates to the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM), at its twenty-fourth biennial Congress, on the fourth edition of its internationally acclaimed Basic Disaster Life Support TM (BDLS®) Course, first introduced to WADEM at its twenty-third biennial Congress. Maintaining its focus on the PRE-Disaster TM Paradigm and DISASTER Paradigm TM , the Course has continuously evolved to expand its accessibility to its increasingly digital worldwide community. It has now been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. As before, BDLS® 4.0 consists of 4 hours of online prework arranged in 18 topical modules, to be completed before enrollment in a live 4-hour series of 5 instructor-led interactive scenarios, which can be delivered actually or virtually, focused on common problems encountered in disaster healthcare. Comprehensively beta tested by 2,246 students (online component) and 112 students (instructor-led component) at institutions of higher learning within the United States and across the globe, the course has been enthusiastically received. The online component, termed Essentials of Disaster Life Support TM (EDLS®), is now additionally available. At the same time, select modules of interest have been offered to emergency medical teams on-site in Ukraine and elsewhere. Revisions to both the Certified Healthcare Emergency Coordinator (CHEC) Basic and Advanced Courses, which include concepts of meta leadership and novel regulatory issues, have been completed and will be described in detail at the time of presentation. *Gerald Beltran, Arthur Cooper (chair), Phillip Coule, Cham Dallas, James James, Ira Nemeth, Paul Pepe, Richard Schwartz (vice chair), Raymond Swienton, John Williams (executive director)