What's New on REMM?

August, 2013

• Key changes are noted below.
• Many more updates and changes appear throughout REMM.

1. REMM Multimedia Library: highlights
   • New All Videos button in Multimedia Carousel presents entire REMM Video Library collection.
   • List of all new multimedia updates (videos, graphs, photos) in the Multimedia Carousel
   • Transportation Incidents Involving Radiation: 3 new videos
     • Emergency Response to a Transportation Accident Involving Radioactive Material
     • Pre-Hospital Practices for Handling a Radiologically Contaminated Patient
     • Decontamination Dressdown at a Transportation Accident involving Radioactive Material
   • Improvised Nuclear Device Detonation: 2 new items
     • Shrinking Fallout Zones after IND Detonation
     • Sheltering: Selecting a Safe Room After an IND incident
2. Update to the Isotopes of Interest table
   • Strongly recommend download of new online REMM bundle and update of new Mobile REMM to capture these important changes.
3. "Other Audiences" section has 2 new groups
   • Public Health Emergency Researchers
   • Medical Examiners / Coroners
   • Many new references and topics
4. New pages on REMM
   • Collection of data: prototypes of forms for radiation safety and medical data tracking
   • Describing an Incident: Definition, Severity, Phases, Timeline
5. Significant updates to key pages
   • Nuclear Detonation: Weapons, INDs
   • Transportation Incidents
   • Triage Guidelines
   • Nuclear Power Plant and Reactor Incidents: new page title and new content
   • Burn Triage and Treatment: Thermal Injuries
   • Strategic National Stockpile
   • Planners: Preparedness and Response
   • Public Information Officers
     • Improvised Nuclear Device Response and Recovery: Communicating in the Immediate Aftermath (US Government Interagency Nuclear Detonation Response Communications Working Group, June 2013)
     • Communicating During and After a Nuclear Power Plant Incident (US Government Interagency Nuclear Detonation Response Communications Working Group, June 2013)
   • Training and Education: Educational Competencies for Health Care Professionals
6. Updated Prototype for Medical Orders
7. Updated fever and neutropenia information
8. REMM YouTube Channel updated
9. Improved REMM bibliography

What's new on Mobile REMM, August 2013?

1. Updates to Isotopes of Interest
2. Links to REMM YouTube videos

Coming soon: September 30, 2013

1. Complete redesign of interactive tool: Managing ARS
2. Complete redesign of Mobile REMM app for iPhone, Android, Blackberry

Previous updates for REMM

1. REMM December, 2012 updates
2. REMM January, 2012 updates
3. REMM 2011 updates
4. REMM 2010 updates
5. REMM 2009 updates
6. REMM 2008 updates