Tabletop Exercise on Mass Casualty Incident Triage, Does it Work?

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...

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...

Telephone triage in-hours: does it work?

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...

[Mass casualty incident management by mSTaRT].