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Contaminated Injured Person

• Assist medical staff in their assessment and initial handling of the patient

by doing rapid contamination assessment.

• If the patient requires transfer to hospital, allocate team member to

accompany the ambulance or arrange monitoring team to be available at

hospital.

• Advise ambulance officers of contamination levels

• If appropriate, complete worksheet and give to ambulance personnel to

take with the patient.

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