• Disaster Med Public Health Prep · Dec 2014

    Experience from the Great East Japan Earthquake response as the basis for revising the Japanese Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) training program.

    • Hideaki Anan, Osamu Akasaka, Hisayoshi Kondo, Shinichi Nakayama, Kazuma Morino, Masato Homma, Yuichi Koido, and Yasuhiro Otomo.
    • 1Emergency Medical Center,Fujisawa City Hospital,Kanagawa,Japan.
    • Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2014 Dec 1; 8 (6): 477-84.

    ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to draft a new Japanese Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) training program based on the responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake.MethodsWorking group members of the Japan DMAT Investigative Commission, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, reviewed reports and academic papers on DMAT activities after the disaster and identified items in the current Japanese DMAT training program that should be changed. A new program was proposed that incorporates these changes.ResultsNew topics that were identified to be added to the DMAT training program were hospital evacuation, preparations to receive DMATs at damaged hospitals, coordination when DMAT activities are prolonged, and safety management and communication when on board small helicopters. The use of wide-area transport was reviewed and changes were made to cover selection of various transport means including helicopter ambulances. Content related to confined space medicine was removed. The time spent on emergency medical information system (EMIS) practical training was increased. Redundant or similar content was combined and reorganized, and a revised DMAT training program that did not increase the overall training time was designed.ConclusionThe revised DMAT training program will provide practical training better suited to the present circumstances in Japan.

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