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

OR

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: amanda.gill@nt.gov.au PH: 08 89441349

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