Feasibility of Telesimulation and Google Glass for Mass Casualty Triage Education and Training

Pediatric Mass Casualty: Triage and Planning for the Prehospital Provider

Infants and children are common victims of disaster or mass casualty situations. Prehospital providers provide the initial care and stabilization at the scene of a mass casualty event. There are a number of challenges the prehospital provider faces when caring for children in a mass casualty event, among them are the following: the physiology of children differs from adults, children are partic...

Medical Response Planning and Triage for Mass Casualty Terrorist Bombings

The medical response to mass casualty terrorist bombings (MCTB) has received extensive treatment in the trauma and emergency medicine literature over the past 25 years. An effective medical response must consider four fundamental aspects: (1) the objective of the response, (2) the typical injury pattern, (3) triage, and (4) the delivery of care. This report discusses the key components of each ...

Comparing the Training of the Mass Casualty Incident Triage by the Virtual Workshop and Non-virtual Workshop (Face-to-Face) on the Nursing Students' Learning and Satisfaction

Introduction: Workshop training is one of the most effective learning methods. This study aims to compare the effect of virtual and face-to-face workshop training on students' learning and satisfaction. Methods: A three-group intervention study with before and after measurements was conducted with the participation of 106 nursing students. A convenient method of assigning replacement blocks wa...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

AORN guidance statement: mass casualty, triage, and evacuation.