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The Role of Nurses in the Reclassification Exercise of the Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team (the JDR Rescue Team)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Futoshi Ohyama ,
Teppei Minamida ,
Saori Oishi ,
Naoki Yamaguchi ,
Yoshiko Sakamoto ,
Reiko Takekawa ,
Masahito Hirokawa ,
Yukiko Akamatsu ,
Noriko Yamasaki  and
Junho Sung
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Futoshi Ohyama
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Tokai University, Isehara, Indonesia
Teppei Minamida
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Nara Medical University Hospital, Kashihara, Indonesia
Saori Oishi
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Tokyo Medical Center, Meguro, Indonesia
Naoki Yamaguchi
Affiliation:
medical unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Osaka Saiseikai Senri Hospital, Suita, Indonesia
Yoshiko Sakamoto
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Nerima, Indonesia
Reiko Takekawa
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Saitama Medical Center, Kawagoe, Indonesia
Masahito Hirokawa
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Gamagori City Hospital, Gamagori, Indonesia
Yukiko Akamatsu
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Osaka Saiseikai Noe Hospital, Osaka, Indonesia
Noriko Yamasaki
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Indonesia
Junho Sung
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Kobe, Indonesia
Mirai Takahashi
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Indonesia
Hiroki Takami
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Nerima, Indonesia
Taigo Sakamoto
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Nippon Medical School, Bunkyou, Indonesia
Noriyuki Ihara
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Chikamori Hospital, Kochi, Indonesia
Junichi Inoue
Affiliation:
Medical Unit of Japan Disaster Relief Search and Rescue Team, Tokyo, Indonesia Nippon Medical School Musashikosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Indonesia
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Abstract

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Introduction:

The JDR Rescue Team has successfully completed the INSARAG External Re-Classification (IER) process, which evaluates the operational capability and capacity of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams and has achieved the highest “Heavy” reclassification in November 2022. Two nurses participated in the IER process as part of the medical unit of JDR Rescue Team. In addition, ten registered nurses cooperated as Exercise Control (EXCON).

Method:

Summarize the JDR Rescue Team and medical unit and make observations on what nurses did in the IER.

Results:

The JDR Rescue Team is dispatched by the Government of Japan in response to large-scale disasters overseas. The task force team has 75 members from various specialties, including the rescuer, and medical unit. The medical unit consists of one medical manager, 2 doctors, and two nurses. There are currently about 50 registered medical unit members in our team, and of these, a total of 23 nurses are registered. The role of nurses during the IER process, includes a 36-hour non-stop scenario-based exercise. The team nurses are involved in various roles, such as Confined Space Medicine (infusion for patients, assisting on-site amputation), caring or treating injured rescuers and search dogs, providing health and welfare monitoring and operating a decontamination system. The EXCON nurses were involved in managing the simulation. One of their key roles was to play as a victim realistically so as to provide a sense of tension for the simulation.

Conclusion:

The JDR Rescue Team has more medical unit members than those in other countries. In particular, teams with so many nurses are rare. nurses played a vital role in this IER. The contribution of nurses is identified in order to make the international USAR team more strong and more flexible.

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Poster Presentations
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 38 , Supplement S1: 22nd Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine , May 2023 , pp. s131
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine