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    A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a specialized group under the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health...
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    Disaster Medical System (NDMS), Urban Search and Rescue (USAR), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team (DMORT), Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)...
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    up of several teams that have specific capabilities. Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) - provides medical care during a disaster or other incident...
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  • The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) (French: Équipe d'intervention en cas de catastrophe (EICC)) is a rapidly deployable team of 200 Canadian...
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    Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) is a Canadian grassroots, non profit disaster relief organization based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Through...
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    and WMD-Civil Support Team teams, Department of Health and Human Services Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and NVRT teams, and other specialized...
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    Intervention Advocacy Program, and was Supervising Medical Officer on the Boston Disaster Medical Assistance Team under the department of Health and Human Services...
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    original (PDF) on August 24, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2012. "Disaster Medical Assistance Team". DMAT. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved...
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    Disaster medicine is the area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically...
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    area. St. John's Regional Medical Center was damaged, and demolished in 2012. The Missouri Disaster Medical Assistance Team temporarily replaced the demolished...
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  • assistance is aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity during and after man-made crises and disasters....
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    Disaster response refers to the actions taken directly before, during or in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The objective is to save lives, ensure...
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    Aid station (category Disaster preparedness)
    supplies to endurance event participants or medical first aid and provisions during major events, disaster response situations, or military operations...
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  • A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team or DMORT is a team of experts in the fields of disaster victim identification and mortuary services. DMORTs...
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    Public health emergency (United States) (category Health disasters in the United States)
    United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Disaster Medical Assistance Team Medical Reserve Corps Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness...
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    The Special Malaysian Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART; Malay: Pasukan Mencari dan Menyelamat Khas Malaysia, Jawi: ڤاسوكن منچاري دان مڽلامت...
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    pre-staged multiple Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs), Disaster Mortuary Assistance Teams (DMORTs), and Veterinary Medicine Response Teams (VMATs) in Houston...
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    The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and...
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    Hurricane Wilma (category 2005 natural disasters)
    5 million for other significant disaster-related needs, including loss of personal property, moving and storage, and medical or funeral expenses relating...
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  • relief operations. They rescued more than 5,000 people, provided medical assistance, and distributed food and water to those affected by the floods. Earthquake...
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  • Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (category Japanese disaster films)
    Force, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo Fire Department and Tokyo Disaster Medical Assistance Team in assisting recovery efforts after the initial earthquake...
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    situations such as wartime contingencies, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief. The EMEDS team is equipped and staffed to provide forward stabilization...
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  • flight carried medical equipment like patient monitors, and ECG machines. It also carried disaster relief material and supplies for rescue teams on the ground...
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  • command system. Individual team members can be trained in various aspects of the response, either be it medical assistance/first aid, hazardous material...
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  • supplies, Israel has also sent rescue teams and medical personnel and set up mobile field hospitals in disaster-stricken areas worldwide. Non-government...
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    Minister, with the creation of the Saudi Disaster Medical Assistance Team (S-DMAT). The newly formed relief team would be used during pilgrimage season...
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  • and assistance to the affected state, including deploying, at the State's request, of Armed Forces, Central Paramilitary Forces, National Disaster Response...
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  • Code orange: disaster Code orange CBRN: CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) disaster Code pink: cardiac arrest/medical emergency – infant/child...
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    National Medical Rescue Team (Turkish: Ulusal Medikal Kurtarma Ekibi, UMKE) is a Turkish governmental emergency service organization for medical assistance in...
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  • health law. He contributed to disaster management as a member of the federal emergency medicine Disaster Medical Assistance Team and the critical care Multi-Specialty...
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