JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- If there's an accident involving a fuel truck on Interstate 5, first responders would perform a rudimentary decontamination of anyone involved. Then, for those ...

The Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program offers a free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool to help hospitals evaluate their decontamination ...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with DHS and other agencies to develop two resources for managing exposure in mass chemical incidents. The two ...

MANSFIELD — Travelers who drove near Mansfield Lahm Airport on Thursday may have thought a radioactive bomb had exploded nearby. No one was injured because nothing happened. It was a training exercise ...

YONGSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- Charlie Company, 121st Combat Support Hospital conducted a mass casualty patient decontamination training at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital on U.S. Army Garrison ...

To SDD or Not To SDD? Prophylactic administration of antibiotics, including selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD), to critically ill patients in an era of antibiotic resistance is a highly ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally ran June 9. “We are the best!” excitedly shouted Matthew Sias, decontamination program manager, Department of Emergency Management, when describing the performance ...

The first 10 minutes of a hazardous materials call are rarely clean, calm or clearly labeled. EMS may be dispatched for ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is getting some help in the fight for his life. As of this past weekend, Duncan is being treated with an experimental drug. On Monday afternoon, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Thomas Memorial Hospital was just one of three medical facilities accepting patients after the chemical emergency at Ames Goldsmith Catalyst Refiners on Wednesday. To best ...

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) did not lower in-hospital deaths among patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. At 90 days, 27.9% of patients who underwent SDD died before ...

In a session on treating poisoned patients at 2026 Fetch Nashville, Renee Schmid, DVM, DABT, DABVT, explains how to be the ...