Introduction: On February 24, 2021, a large explosion and fire occurred in an industrial estate Singapore. Eight casualties with major burns were conveyed to the emergency department (ED) at Singapore General Hospital, designated regional Burns Centre. This article details events recommendations arising from this multiple casualty incident. Method: An After-Action Review (AAR) was conducted exa...

OBJECTIVES A mass casualty incident (MCI) may strain a health care system beyond surge capacity, affecting patterns of care for casualties and other patients. Prior studies of MCIs have assessed clinical care for casualty patients, but have not examined outcomes or expenditures for noncasualty inpatients in the same time period. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of administrative hosp...

OBJECTIVE To predict how much blood will be needed based on the number of injured patients arriving after a multiple-casualty incident. DESIGN A retrospective study evaluating data collected in 18 consecutive terrorist attacks in the city of Tel Aviv between January 1997 and February 2005. SETTING A large, urban trauma center. PATIENTS A total of 986 patients in 18 events. MAIN OUTCOME ...

Efficient emergency management requires on the one hand collecting distributed pieces of information in order to get an aggregated situation overview, and on the other hand distributing and presenting the gathered information to all levels of decision making. IT-supported emergency management systems can support these tasks, but need to be carefully designed in order to reflect the actual needs...

The purpose of this study is to determine the applicability of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and commercial cellular networks to provide an online triage system for handling mass casualty situations. This was tested by a using a pilot system for a simulated mass casualty situation during a military field exercise. The system proved to be usable. Compared to the currently used...

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...