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Course Overview
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Recognition of Illness Associated
With Chemical Exposure
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public Health Training Network Webcast
Originally aired August 5, 2004
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Since September 11, 2001, concern in the United States has
increased about potential terrorist attacks involving the
use of chemical agents. The national focus of a potential
chemical terrorism event is typically overt, involving a
large explosion, dissemination of chemical or biological
agents as aerosols, or volatile liquids. Recent cases
involving intentional or inadvertent contamination of food
or product tampering with chemicals have also highlighted
the need for health-care providers and public health officials
to be alert for patients in their communities who have signs and
symptoms consistent with chemical exposures.
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Goal
To increase the likelihood that health-care providers
will recognize a chemical-release--related illness
and that public health authorities will implement the
appropriate emergency response and public health actions.
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Objectives
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to describe:
- Epidemiologic clues that might suggest the covert release of a chemical agent
- Public health strategies for responding to the release of a chemical agent
- Reporting requirements when a chemical release is suspected
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Target Audience
Health-care providers, particularly first receivers;
federal, state, and local public health and emergency management officials
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Faculty
LCDR Manish Patel, MD, MSc.,
Medical Toxicologist, Division of Environmental
Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental
Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
LCDR Martin Belson, MD, Medical Toxicologist,
Division of Environmental
Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Registration and Continuing Education Information
Participant registration is available through the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online at
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtnonline.
Participants are encouraged, but not required, to register and evaluate this program.
The program number is listed below:
Web-on-Demand - WD0049
Individuals who have questions about registration should call 1-800-41-TRAIN or email ce@cdc.gov.
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Webcast Information
This program is available for viewing, at http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/webcast/chemical-exp.
For additional content questions after the live program, please e-mail EHHEinq@cdc.gov.
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Videotapes
Videotapes and CD-ROMs will be available from the
Public Health Foundation shortly after the webcast
for $25 per copy. Order online at
http://bookstore.phf.org or by calling 877-252-1200.
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This page last reviewed: July 6, 2004
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