Multiple Casualty Incidents

Managing multiple-casualty incidents: a rural medical preparedness training assessment.

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to develop a novel training model for using mass-casualty incident (MCI) scenarios that trained hospital and prehospital staff together using Microsoft Visio, images from Google Earth and icons representing first responders, equipment resources, local hospital emergency department bed capacity, and trauma victims. The authors also tested participants'...

Outcome quality in the management of multiple casualty incidents.

In-hospital resource utilization during multiple casualty incidents.

OBJECTIVE To suggest guidelines for hospital organization during terror-related multiple casualty incidents (MCIs) based on the experience of 6 level I trauma centers. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Most terror-related MCIs are bombings. The sporadic nature of these events complicates in-hospital preparation. METHODS Data were collected at all level I Trauma centers during/after MCIs for the Israe...

Case managers in mass casualty incidents.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether case managers affect patient evaluation/treatment/outcome and staffing requirements during Multiple Casualty Incidents (MCIs). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Multiple patient relocations during MCIs may contribute to chaos. One hospital changed its MCI patient relocation policy during a wave of MCIs; rather than transfer patients from one medical team to another in each ...

Utility-theoretic training for mass casualty incidents

This paper describes an approach to training emergency responders for mass casualty incidents. The approach is derived from a methodology and supporting software system called Summit. The Summit approach uses an integration of scenarios, hierarchical task analysis, interaction modeling, and expected utility theory to represent how actors engage in complex tasks; here we model mass casualty inci...