Emergency Medical Services Training on COVID-19 Preparedness

These training modules aim to familiarize EMT staff with COVID-19, covering key facts, severity categories, challenges, and roles within the community. Topics include pandemic features, debunking myths, personal consequences, and handling virus transmission. The sessions address the lack of treatment and vaccine, resource limitations, testing disparities, and politicization in responses. Exercises focus on identifying gaps, contributions, challenges, and tools for effective management. EMT personnel roles involve supporting hospitals, treatment centers, staffing, equipment provision, training, and collaborating with health authorities.

• EMT
• COVID-19
• Training
• Health Emergencies

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1. EMT Just In Time Training Modules, COVID-19 Familiarizing the staff with the disease and its implications HEALTH EMERGENCIES HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme programme

2. Session Outcomes Outline the main features of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic Distinguish between facts and myths in relation to the disease Outline the personal consequences for EMT staff involved in combating the disease Identify the potential roles of EMTs in managing the disease within communities HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

3. Pairs Exercise HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

4. COVID-19 Key Facts Virus Droplet transmission Incubation period Infectious period HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

5. Categories of severity With risk factors No risk factors HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

6. Key Problems No treatment and no vaccine available Only preventive measures and supportive treatment options Overwhelmed resources Numbers of infected and mortality are reported inconsistently Different testing policies exist within and between countries Politicization of the response HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

7. Group Exercise 1st column: gaps 2nd column: contributions 3rd column: challenges 4th column: tools, techniques & further training HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

8. Roles that EMT personnel are playing Establishment, or support to, temporary hospitals Community treatment centres or other pre-hospital activities Surge staffing to overwhelmed facilities Provision of equipment and operational support Provision of training for staff and management of existing health facilities Support to local or national health authorities in non- service delivery roles (e.g. advice on coordination or technical issues) HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme

9. Thank you Any questions? For more http://extranet.who.int/emt/ EMTeams@who.int HEALTH EMERGENCIES programme