post sudden onset disasters - rural health
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AusMAT: Challenging practice in an austere environment post sudden onset disasters
Innovate, collaborate and coordinate to deliver Australia’s health emergency and medical response capability.
Our Mission
AusMAT Field Hospital – EMT Type 1
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EMT 1 - Mobile
EMT 1 - Fixed
AusMATField Hospital – EMT Type 2
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).
AusMAT Deployments
OPERATION PAKISTAN ASSIST II - 2010 ENDEMIC TRACHOMA - 2013 DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK - 2013
AusMAT Deployments
OPERATION PHILIPPINES ASSIST - 2013 OPERATION PACIFIC ASSIST - 2015 NEPAL - 2015 FIJI - 2016
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.
AusMAT - Staff
AusMAT Staff
AusMAT Living Conditions
• Weather • Noisy • Austere • Tiredness • Personalities • Sickness
AusMAT engages with the local country to provide staff to work with our team.
Working with Local Staff
Working with International Staff
Interested in becoming an AusMAT volunteer?
So if you want to explore and challenge the boundaries of your clinical practise in an austere environment… think AusMAT!
Summary
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
Amanda Gill National Critical Care & Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) Email: [email protected] PH: 08 89441349
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