Web Site for Medical Responses to Radiation Emergencies

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The Department of Health and Human Services has developed its first
comprehensive web site to assist health care professionals, primarily
physicians, who may have to provide medical care during a radiation mass
casualty incident.

***http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/20070308.html*
Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM) (***http://remm.nlm.gov*) provides
easy to follow algorithms for diagnosis and management of radiation
contamination and exposure, guidance for the use of radiation
countermeasures, and a variety of other features to facilitate medical
responses.

Guidance on diagnosis and treatment will help health care providers by
describing:

       - types of radiation emergencies they may face
                        - initial medical actions at
                        the incident site and or medical facility
                        - specific issues that apply
                        to care in radiation mass casualty events.

Critical information is presented in a format that will quickly and
efficiently orient and guide health care providers during a potential mass
casualty radiation event. Federal, state and local medical response teams
will be able to download REMM files to computers so that the documents are
available without internet access. Users can also register for automatic
e-mail updates whenever key material is changed or added to REMM.

Future plans include formatting REMM for use on Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA) devices, additional multimedia graphics, and more topic areas such as
follow-up patient care.

Subject matter experts from the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the National Institutes of Health's
National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated on the
content for REMM. HHS teamed with NLM's Division of Specialized Information
Services to develop the site.

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