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Preparing for biological terrorism events

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 3, 2006

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When compared to chemical or nuclear events, biological terrorism events are unique in their ability to cause confusion, disruption, and panic, as well as pose significantly more challenges when treating victims. These factors include the following:

• A potential for massive numbers of casualties
• The ability to produce lengthy illnesses requiring prolonged and extensive care
• The ability of some agents to spread through contagion
• The presence of an incubation period (which enables victims to disperse widely)
• A small number of adequate detection systems

Seamless communication is needed between the safety operations staff of your organization and the clinical epidemiological staff to foster the proactive identification and management of a biological terrorism event.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course, "Emergency Response to Biological Terrorism." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to www.hcprofessor.com.

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