Mass Casualty Incident
Factors influencing injury severity score regarding Thai military personnel injured in mass casualty incident April 10, 2010: lessons learned from armed conflict casualties: a retrospective study
... caused mass casualties, especially the latest event April 10, 2010, in which many military personnel were ...the mass casualty incident (MCI) April 10, ...
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Primary mass casualty incident triage: evidence for the benefit of yearly brief re-training from a simulation study
... Background: Triage is a mainstay of early mass casualty incident (MCI) management. Standardized triage protocols aim at providing valid and reproducible results and, thus, improve triage quality. To ...
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Triage performance of Swedish physicians using the ATLS algorithm in a simulated mass casualty incident: a prospective cross-sectional survey
... common international and Swedish triage guidelines could lead to confusion. Attending the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) provider course is becoming compulsory in the northern part of Europe. The aim of the ATLS ...
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Lightning mass casualty incident with a successful Triage Classification Competence of Emergency Medical Technicians under Taiwan’s Fire Departments
... causes mass casualties, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) of the fire department shall rush to the disaster scene in the first instance, and shall effectively implement triage classification for large number of ...
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<p>Mass Casualty Shootings and Emergency Preparedness: A Multidisciplinary Approach for an Unpredictable Event</p>
... a mass casualty ...40 Mass transportation of those patients not requiring immediate life-sustaining interventions to nearby facilities clears the responding trauma centers for critically ill ...
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Mass-Casualty Events at Schools: A National Preparedness Survey
... In the event of an emergency, correctly identifying and releasing children to their parents, guardian, or family is a critical role of school officials. A parent re- unification or student release form is used by some ...
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Swedish emergency hospital surgical surge capacity to mass casualty incidents
... The Swedish total-defence system, the intimate national civil-military collaboration during the cold war era was able to mobilize all available resources to defend the coun- try [1, 2]. Recently, it has been indicated ...
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A retrospective observational study of medical incident command and decision-making in the 2011 Oslo bombing
... studied mass casualty incident, the commanders made most critical decisions in the early stages of the emergency response when resources did not meet ...
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Criteria and models for the distribution of casualties in trauma-related mass casualty incidents: a systematic literature review protocol
... a mass casualty incident as “an event which generates more pa- tients at one time than locally available resources can manage using routine procedures” ...of mass casualty incidents can ...
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Optimizing emergency preparedness and resource utilization in mass-casualty incidents
... medical incident in which casualties actually or potentially over- whelm local emergency response and hospital treatment capability may be termed a mass-casualty incident ...one ...
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Challenges of Mass Casualty Management at a Regional Trauma Centre in Sub Saharan Africa
... Mass casualty incident management is still an evolving field and there are no national or regional emergency preparedness plans in our sub ...
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Mass casualty modelling: a spatial tool to support triage decision making
... The second set of data utilized in this study is com- prised of the locations of participating hospitals within the metro Vancouver region. In addition to geocoded hospital locations, the hospital dataset also attaches ...
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A Next-Generation Augmented Reality Platform for Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI)
... a mass casualty incident, but only 15% said they had the capability of tracking care status in real time (Jiang et ...help incident commanders with their decision making process and ...
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Duration and predictors of emergency surgical operations - basis for medical management of mass casualty incidents
... actual incident admission ...Multiple casualty incidents, Mass casualty incident, McI, triage, Emergency operation, lifesav- ing procedure, Emergency planning, Disaster ...
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Online optimization of casualty processing in major incident response: An experimental analysis
... a mass casualty incident (MCI), such as the London Bombings of July 7th 2005 ( London As- sembly, 2006 ), many decisions need to be made in a fast and ef- fective manner within a high pressure ...
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Pre-hospital triage performance after standardized trauma courses
... Results: One hundred fifty-three advanced Trauma Life Support course participants were compared to 175 Pre- Hospital Trauma Life Support course participants. The response rates were 90% and 95%, respectively. A ...
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Pre hospital management of mass casualty civilian shootings: a systematic literature review
... Communication failures are a consistent feature of post-major incident reports and at mass shootings these failures can have detrimental impacts [13, 16, 19, 30, 48, 49, 54]. At Fort Hood two patients were ...
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Challenges of the management of mass casualty: lessons learned from the Jos crisis of 2001
... of mass casualties but accurate record keeping ensures continu- ity of care, avoids duplication of efforts, and allows a retrospective analysis of the response effort at debriefing ...
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Clinical review: The role of the intensive care physician in mass casualty incidents: planning, organisation, and leadership
... a mass casualty ...major incident plans are insufficiently focused on strategies and procedures that extend beyond the pre-hospital and early-hospital phases of ...major incident planning, ...
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Evidence-based support for the all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness
... Relationships among specific categories with the total preparedness score for different emergency scenarios It is a well-accepted assumption that a standard operating procedure is an essential requirement for emergency ...
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