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Emergency management training in Asia Several SCDA courses are recognized by the IAEM’s Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) Commission for credit toward the 100 hours of emergency management training, and the 100 hours of general management training, required to achieve the CEM certification. On completion of an SCD Academy course, be sure to get and keep your certificate to submit with your CEM® application.
Emergency Management magazine Disco Lives! A hundred beats per minute is fast, as you may have learned by trying to move like John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever. And the proper rate for CPR is hard to remember when you’re nervous, trying doing it on the ground in a public place or doing it to a patient who is also your loved one. Unsurprisingly, most non-medical professionals do CPR too slowly, too gently, or both. The Red Cross has spent years trying to teach people CPR with mnemonics (“ABC” for “airway, breathing, circulation”) and Resusci-Annie practice dummies. Late last year researchers at a medical school in the USA discovered that people who listened to Stayin’ Alive while they practiced CPR performed it better weeks later without even hearing the music. At last…a business reason to listen to the Bee Gee’s! Download dat disco to ya iPod right here. Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Collaboration Tracking and controlling some of those diseases - malaria, dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue fever, cholera, highly pathogenic influenza (‘bird flu’) - in humans and animals are the missions of the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Collaboration, a monitoring and response-building effort in the Mekong Basin supported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) email alert program, World Health Organization, Global Health & Security Initiative, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Rockefeller Foundation, Google, and Rand Corporation. Click here to subscribe to the MBDS alert service or any other of ProMED’s alerts. Scroll to the bottom of the list of alerts; the Mekong BDS alert is the last one. Bonus: here is an excellent Global Disease Alert Map, pinpointing disease outbreaks around the globe. You can choose to receive data feeds to that map in English or Chinese.
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