Mobile REMM vs IMT

Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) is produced by •Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (HHS/ASPR) and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (HHS/ASPR/BARDA) •National Library of Medicine (NLM) •National Cancer Institute (NCI) •Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) REMM provides •Guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies •Just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise •Web-based information that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an event if the internet is not accessible Mobile REMM has key selected pages from REMM online, including: •Patient management algorithms for radiation exposure, contamination, and more... •Dose estimator for radiation exposure •Adult and pediatric triage •Isotopes of interest •Radiation countermeasures •Emergency contacts See REMM online for much more information, images, links, and background material.

Emergency services widely use the METHANE acronym to build a report for alerting others about a major incident. The METHANE format is taught widely, and may seem easy to remember, but in a crisis is often difficult to recall at the very time that it is needed the most. The risk is therefore that the METHANE message is never sent, with subsequent delay in an appropriately-scaled emergency response. Prometheus IMT METHANE aims to be an intuitive, simple, quick and reliable way of building a METHANE message in a major incident situation, or an ETHANE message in a complex incident (i.e. a lower tier of incident where the essential components of the message are still very useful). Prometheus IMT METHANE has been designed and develop by highly experienced emergency responders who still struggle to have the right fluency with the METHANE message when under extreme pressure. This is a tool designed to meet our needs. We believe others out there share those needs. Please let us know how we can make it better.