Lessons From a Japan-Korea Collaboration on Medical Response Training for a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency, Assuming Mass Casualty (original) (raw)

This training session is organized by the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), which conducts practical training in medical treatments during nuclear disasters based on the international standards for radiation protection. The practical training began with the assumption that a large-scale earthquake had caused an on-site emergency at the Kori Nuclear Power Plant (NPP); the aim of this training was to enhance control of the command system, information sharing, confirmation of triage, and patient distribution during an emergency situation. In this training, our group (the Japanese team) participated in REM as a radiation emergency medical assistance team including doctors, nurses, radiologic technologists, and logistics personnel, and cooperated with Korea's radiation emergency medical assistance team. In this study, we briefly introduce the contents of REM 2017 and discuss how we can make use of it in future education on nuclear disaster response.