Botulism Questionnaire: A tactical tool for community use in a mass casualty incident

Pediatric Mass Casualty Incident: A Real Crisis Mandating Inter-Disciplinary Coordination, Considering Ethical Issues

Interdisciplinary coordination of the director of crisis committee with emergency and other department's staff, financial support team, public relations, rehabilitation team,and police are required to successfully manage mass casualty incidents (MCIs). Prevention, staff training, equipment availability, clear-cut responsibilities and predicting all requirements are crucial aspects to be prepare...

Tactical Information Visualization for Operation Managers in Mass Casualty Incidents

In mass casualty incidents, operation managers have to make decisions under highly stressful conditions. At present, the tactical information is mostly written down on paper-based worksheets, which are inconvenient to use. As a result, the operation managers tend to avoid the paper sheets and try to remember information which is error-prone. To overcome this issue, this paper presents an IT-sup...

Field triage and patient maldistribution in a mass-casualty incident.

INTRODUCTION Management of mass-casualty incidents should optimize outcomes by appropriate prehospital care, and patient triage to the most capably facilities. The number of patients, the nature of injuries, transportation needs, distances, and hospital capabilities and availabilities are all factors to be considered. Patient maldistributions such as overwhelming individual facilities, or trans...

Role of tactical EMS in support of public safety and the public health response to a hostile mass casualty incident.

[Mass casualty incident management by mSTaRT].