Friday, May 15, 2009

MAY ACTIVISM: Now Available - Third Edition of Tips for First Responders!

Comment:  This is a great brochure to email or distribute to emergency medical personnel to increase awareness of MCS and encourage proper treatment in medical emergencies.  It's produced by the University of New Mexico Center for Development and Disability.
 

Now Available - Third Edition of Tips for First Responders!

 

Tips for First RespondersTips for First Responders, a 14-page, color-coded, laminated 4.5 x 5.5-inch field guide. For the third editon a tip sheet has been added that offers information to first responders on how to assist Childbearing Women and Newborns. Tips also include persons with a wide range of disabilities, as well as Seniors, People with Service Animals, People with Mobility Challenges, People with Mental Illness, Blind or Visually Impaired People, Deaf or Hard of Hearing People, People with Autism, People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and People with Cognitive Disabilities.

 

The tip sheets provide information first responders can use during emergencies as well as routine encounters. They are not meant to be comprehensive, but contain specific information that you can read quickly either before or while responding to an incident. Over 80,000 copies of the tips have been ordered by first reponders across the country.

 

Partners in developing the Tip Sheets include the Bureau of Health Emergency Management, New Mexico Department of Health; the New Mexico Governor's Commission on Disability; the American Association on Health and Disability; and the Disability and Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

View PDF Version of the Tips for First Responders >>> http://cdd.unm.edu/products/tips3rdedition.pdf
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Download the Tips for First Responders order form in Adobe Acrobat Reader >>>

http://cdd.unm.edu/products/TIPSheetOrderForm.pdf
You can print this form and fax or mail it to us.

 

Contact us for further information >>> mailto:acahill@salud.unm.edu

Or call Dr. Anthony Cahill at 505-272-2990

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