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AusMAT: Challenging practice in an austere environment post sudden onset disasters

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AusMAT: Challenging practice in an austere environment post sudden onset disasters

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Innovate, collaborate and coordinate to deliver Australia’s health emergency and medical response capability.

Our Mission

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AusMAT Field Hospital – EMT Type 1

OR

EMT 1 - Mobile

EMT 1 - Fixed

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AusMATField Hospital – EMT Type 2

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AusMat Staffing

Sterilisation Area

EMT 1 - Fixed Advanced TL = 1 Medical = 5 Nursing = 9 Para = 2 Radiology = 1 Pharmacy = 1 Log = 5 TEAM TOTAL = 24

EMT 2 Advanced TL = 1 Medical = 10 Nursing = 27 Para = 2 Radiology = 1 Pharmacy = 1 Allied Health = 1 Lab tech = 1 Log = 5 TEAM TOTAL = 50

EMT 1 – Mobile Dependant on what type of response:

Aero-medical Primary Care

TEAM TOTAL = Variable staffing (4-6).

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AusMAT Deployments

OPERATION PAKISTAN ASSIST II - 2010 ENDEMIC TRACHOMA - 2013 DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK - 2013

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AusMAT Deployments

OPERATION PHILIPPINES ASSIST - 2013 OPERATION PACIFIC ASSIST - 2015 NEPAL - 2015 FIJI - 2016

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AusMAT Staff AusMATeer’s must be experienced, current in practice and willing to be flexible, adaptable and resourceful. AusMAT courses and training prepares you for working within an austere environment in a disaster setting.

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AusMAT - Staff

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AusMAT Staff

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AusMAT Living Conditions

• Weather • Noisy • Austere • Tiredness • Personalities • Sickness

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AusMAT engages with the local country to provide staff to work with our team.

Working with Local Staff

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Working with International Staff

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Interested in becoming an AusMAT volunteer?

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So if you want to explore and challenge the boundaries of your clinical practise in an austere environment… think AusMAT!

Summary

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Coatsworth, N 2014, ‘The Australian medical response to typhoon Haiyan’, MJA, 201,(11), pp. 632 -634. Read, DJ, Holian, A, Mollert, CC & Poutawera, V 2015, ‘Surgical workload of a foreign medical team after Typhoon Haiyan’, ANZ J Surg, 2015, pp. 1-5.

References

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Amanda Gill National Critical Care & Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) Email: [email protected] PH: 08 89441349

Contact details

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