Manchester Arena bombing: lessons learnt from a mass casualty incident

Clinician-performed ultrasonography during the Boston marathon bombing mass casualty incident.

acute inpatient status for patients who required a stay of less than 48 hours. But now there is a growing population of patients labeled as facility observation status by payers who still require the resources generally provided by a hospital inpatient unit. These “complex” observation status patients place the hospitals and physicians in an untenable position. Unfortunately, observation has mo...

Lessons learnt from errors in radiotherapy centers

Background: The purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. This work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...

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...

The casualty profile from the Manchester bombing 1996: a proposal for the construction and dissemination of casualty profiles from major incidents.

OBJECTIVE To produce a casualty profile for the Manchester bombing and to illustrate the potential uses of such templates in major incident planning. METHODS A retrospective review of casualty notes from the Manchester bombing. RESULTS A complete anonymous casualty profile for the Manchester bombing is given with AIS90 coded injuries. The majority (129, 62%) of casualties sustained minor in...

[Mass casualty incident management by mSTaRT].