Mass casualty incident

[Mass casualty incident management by mSTaRT].

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...

Drones at the service for training on mass casualty incident

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) are characterized by a large number of victims with respect to the resources available. In this study, we aimed to analyze the changes produced in the self-perception of students who were able to visualize aerial views of a simulation of a MCI. A simulation study, mixed method, was performed to compare the results from an ad hoc questionnaire. The 35 students from ...

Information and Management Support for Mass Casualty Incident Scenarios

Handling highly dynamic scenarios as they arise in mass casualty incident (MCI) situations requires lots of information about the situation and an extremely flexible IT infrastructure that can assist in managing the incident. We show a combination of technologies from different fields of research that have focused on the support of the strategic and tactical level in such situations. We describ...

Mass Casualty Incident Primary Triage Methods in China

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the technical characteristics and application of mass casualty incident (MCI) primary triage (PT) methods applied in China. DATA SOURCES Chinese literature was searched by Chinese Academic Journal Network Publishing Database (founded in June 2014). The English literature was searched by PubMed (MEDLINE) (1950 to June 2014). We also searched Official Websites of Chinese C...