Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management Web Site

Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) was produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Planning and Emergency Operations, in cooperation with the National Library of Medicine, Division of Specialized Information Services, and many medical, emergency response, toxicology, and other types of experts.

The goals of this web site are to enable first responders, first receivers, other healthcare providers, and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving chemicals. Provide a comprehensive, user-friendly, web-based resource that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an event if the internet is not accessible.

To download CHEMM to your computer, visit:
http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/about.htm#download

Other links from CHEMM include:

Types and Categories of Hazardous Chemicals:
http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/agentcategories.htm

Acute Patient Care Guidelines: http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/mmghome.htm

CHEMM Intelligent Syndromes Tool: http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/chemmist.htm
a prototype decision support tool developed as an aid for identifying the chemical a patient was exposed to in a mass casualty incident.

For more information on CHEMM visit the website at:
http://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/index.html