North Carolina State Medical Assistance Team - 1 

 

 

 

                

* A special thanks goes out to the SORT members that volunteered their time and assisted with the SMAT I display at the NC Disaster Medical Preparedness Conference, April 16-19, 2008 at the Sheraton Hotel & Koury Convention Center in Greensboro NC.  It was quite successful and we received several compliments.

 

SORT was designated SMAT-1 by the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Service in 2004 with funds from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) bioterrorism grant.

•The SMAT-1 is a rapid medical statewide response team capable of a 4 to 6 hour response time when activated and is capable of responding to assist the citizens of North Carolina in a crisis situation. An SMAT-1 response would me augmented with personnel and additional response equipment from the Winston-Salem based Special Operations Response Team. SMAT-1 is prepared to respond to events ranging from an austere medical setup for a hurricane response to setting up a large scale decontamination area as a result of a terrorist event involving weapons of mass destruction.

SMAT-1 can respond locally, regionally, or statewide to assist overwhelmed emergency services agencies working in disaster conditions.

 

SMAT-1 also has the capability of assisting an overwhelmed hospital by providing a "parking lot decontamination area,"  personnel for an overwhelmed emergency department, or to set up a medical surge capacity holding area to receive patients for a hospital that has reached its capacity.

 

 

 

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SMAT-1's capabilities include:

- Specialized rapid decontamination and medical care of victims exposed to both chemical industrial products and weapons of mass destruction agents. (Biological, Chemical, Radiological)

- Rapid strike-team medical assistance

- Management of a 150+ bed alternate care facility

•- Management of the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS) receiving site.
•- Establishment of a  Mass Drug Distribution / Immunization site
- Establishment of “austere” Field Medical Stations    (300+ patients – a day - 24 hr/day operation – self sustained for 72 hours / 7 day mission duration 

 

 

 

 

- Tactical Medical assistance to local law enforcement

-•• On-site responder rehabilitation

•- On site Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)

•- Preventative Medicine Assessments

 

•- Mass Fatality Assistance

 

- Hospital decontamination assistance

- Partner with an SMAT II team on mission requiring assistance

 

 

The SMAT-1 can respond with a scalable team size of 12 to 54 members including: Physicians, PA’s, Nurses, Paramedics, Firefighters, Law Enforcement, Veterinarians, Medical/Hazmat/ and support personnel all trained in working in the austere environment. The team also has the capability of breaking into 2 separate strike teams.

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(above left) SMAT-1's decontamination area setup along side an SMAT II's field hospital.  

 

 

North Carolina State Medical Assistance Teams (SMAT) website - click HERE

 

 

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