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Category: Health & Medical (ESF #8)
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| Standard DMORT has 31 personnel plus basic load of equipment (NOTE 1) | Deployment Readiness, Staffing, Equipment Status, Training Status, Patient Treatment Capacity | Deploy to site within 24 hrs. of notification; Provide on-site victim identification and morgue operations; Provide family assistance services (NOTE 2) norxshop.com | ||||||
| DMORT-WMD | Same as above | Same as above except adds additional capability to deal with residually contaminated chemical, biological, or radiological dead | ||||||
| Deployable Portable Morgue Unit (DPMU) | Fully equipped to support DMORT functions | Add-on when no local morgue facilities available; Supports either standard DMORT or DMORT-WMD (NOTE 3) | ||||||
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Comment: Definition: A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team is a volunteer group of medical and forensic personnel, usually from the same geographic region, who have formed a response team under the guidance of the National Disaster Medical System (or State or local auspices), and whose personnel have specific training/skills in victim identification, mortuary services, and forensic pathology and anthropology methods. NOTE 1: Usually includes a mix of medical examiners, coroners, pathologists, forensic anthropologists, medical records technicians, fingerprint technicians, forensic odentologists, dental assistants, radiologists, funeral directors, mental health professionals, and support personnel. NOTE 2: DMORTs are mission tailored on an ad hoc basis, and usually deploy only with personnel and equipment specifically required for current mission. NOTE 3: There are currently two Portable Morgue Units within NDMS.
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