Veterinary Disaster Management Flashcards
What is an example of a slow onset disaster?
Drought
What is the 2009 United Nations definition of a disaster?
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
What is the Gunn and Lechat definition of disaster?
A disaster is the result of a vast ecological breakdown in the relationship between humans and their environment, a serious and sudden event (or slow as in a drought) on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside help.
What are 2 general categories of disasters?
- Natural
- Manmade
What is bioterrorism?
The deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins or other harmful agents used to cause illness or death in people, animals or plants.
What is agroterrorism?
The malicious attempt to disrupt or destroy the agricultural industry and/or food supply system of a population through the malicious use of plant or animal pathogens to cause devastating disease in the agricultural sectors.
How much did the US spend per week in the 1990s on disasters?
How much in the next decade?
- More than 1 billion dollars.
- More than 2 billion dollars.
Lack of planning for disasters can cause what?
- Increased chaos
- Decreased trust in authorities
- Increased recovery time
What are the 4 phases of disaster management?
- Preparedness
- Response
- Recovery
- Mitigation
What does mitigation do?
- Attempts to prevent hazards from developing into disasters altogether.
- Reduce the effects of disasters when they occur.
Mitigation focuses on long-term measure and can be what?
- Part of the recovery
- Structural
- Non-structural (procedural changes)
What are 2 things preparedness involves?
- Plans and preparations made to save lives and property, and to facilitate response operations.
- Provisions to ensure that all resources/services needed to cope with a disaster can be rapidly mobilized and deployed.
What are 5 components of response?
- Actions taken to provide emergency assistance, save lives, minimize property damage and speed recover.
- Static and mobile vet clinics
- Search and rescue operations
- Provision of emergency food/water
- Temporary shelters
What are 4 things that recovery involves?
- Actions taken to return to a normal or improved operating condition following a disaster.
- Reconstructing physical structures.
- Restoring emotional, social, economic and physical well-being.
- May include continued veterinary care.
What are 6 examples of companion animal issues in disasters?
- Failure of people to evacuate because of their pets.
- Animal abandonment
- Logistics of care and sheltering of animals (equipment, space, behavioral concerns).
- Animal identification
- Reuniting displaced animals with their owners.
- Adoption
What are 7 special considerations with large animal infectious disease outbreaks?
- Veterinary manpower
- Carcass disposal from mass casualties.
- Animal identification and premise ID.
- Time from diagnosis to slaughter.
- Indemnity/insurance payments
- Policy issues (vaccination vs stamping out)
- Environmental contamination
What does CART stand for?
County animal response team
What is the intended use of a CART?
To be utilized by local government and agencies to take immediate action in providing a means of care to minimize animal suffering in the event of a large scale disaster.
What does SART stand for?
State animal response team
What are SARTs?
Interagency organizations dedicated to preparing, planning, responding and recovering during animal emergencies.
What does VMAT stand for?
Veterinary medical assistance team
What does NVRT stand for?
National veterinary response team
What does NAHERC stand for?
National animal health emergency response corp
VMAT operates under what other organization?
AVMA
What does VMAT do?
What has to happen first?
- Provides operational assistance to state animal health authorities.
- Must be requested by the state.
How is VMAT funded?
Through the american veterinary medical foundation
What are VMAT’s 3 primary functions?
- Early assessment volunteer teams
- Basic treatment volunteer teams
- Training
NVRT is part of what organization?
Department of Health and Human Service’s national disaster medical system
Who is on the NVRT?
Private citizens who have been approved as intermittent federal employees and activated in the event of a disaster.
Why was NAHERC established?
To respond to exotic disease outbreaks and other disasters which affect livestock, poultry, companion animals and wildlife.
How many public health professionals work for the US Public Health Service?
More than 6,500
Officers of the US Public Health are dedicated to what?
Public health promotion, response, disease prevention and science.
What are 5 problems identified with past disaster plans?
- Communications issues
- Command and control problems
- No standardized plan
- Training
- No common operating plan
What does NRF stand for?
National response framework
What does the NRF do?
Establishes a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response.
When is the NRF in effect?
Always
What does ESF stand for?
How many are there?
- Emergency support functions
- 15
What does NIMS stand for?
National incident management system
NIMS is part of what?
Homeland security presidential directive - 5
NIMS mandates the use of what?
The incident command system
What are the 3 systems involved with NIMSA?
- Incident command system
- Multi-agency coordination system
- Public information system
Does NIMS start with local or federal support/response?
Local
Does NRF start with local or federal support/response?
Federal
What does ICS stand for?
Incident command system
What does ICS do?
Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard, incident management.
T/F: ICS uses standardized terminology.
True
What type of structure does ICS have?
Top-down structure:
- Only positions that are necessary will be filled.
- Each element will have a person in charge.
What is the ICS span of control based on?
What is the ideal supervisor : individual/resource ratio?
What is the maximum ratio?
- The amount of individuals or resources one can supervise.
- 1:5
- 1:7
What are 5 management functions of the ICS structure?
- Incident command
- Logistics
- Operations (veterinarians primarily)
- Planning (veterinarians)
- Finance and administration
