Focus Area Option: Triage, Infection Control, and Decontamination

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Description: Session 3 of the DRC provided participants with information about the focus area of triage, infection control, and decontamination (TICD), including expectations for participation. The benefits of selecting this topic for a DRC improvement project were shared. Details on why it is important to have protocols for pediatric triage, infection control, and decontamination in your hospital’s disaster plan will be discussed.

Objectives:

• List the benefits of selecting this focus area for a DRC improvement project.
• Explain why it is important to have protocols for pediatric triage, infection control, and decontamination in your hospital’s disaster plan.
• Describe how to determine whether decontamination, isolation, and/or infection control procedures are needed or not for a particular patient.

Speakers:

• Jonathan Eisenberg, MD, FAAP
• Nicolaus Glomb, MD, MPH, FAAP
• Kate Remick, MD, FAAP, FACEP, FAEMS
• Irene Navis, AICP
• Danielle Zerr, MD, MPH, FPID