Disasters and mass casualty incidents : the nuts and bolts of preparedness and response to protracted and sudden onset emergencies /: the nuts and bolts of preparedness and response to protracted and sudden onset emergencies. (©2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor: Mauricio Lynn ; Associate editors: Howard Lieberman [and others].
• Other Names: Lynn, Mauricio; Lieberman, Howard
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; 1: General Information; Introduction; Definitions; Disaster; Mass Casualty Incident (MCI); Classification; Progressive Disasters or Pre-planned Mass Gatherings; Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; Epidemiology of Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents and Its Practical Applications; 2: Prehospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; Introduction; Phases and Characteristics of Mass Casualty Incidents; Chaos Phase; Reorganization Phase; Evacuation of Nonurgent Casualties. Incident Command System (ICS)Regional Emergency Operations Center; Prehospital Communications; Field Triage; The Role of Bystanders and Volunteers in Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; "Save and Run" in Mass Casualty Incidents; Distribution of Patients Between Hospitals and Prehospital Patient Tracking; Prehospital Patient Tracking; Difference Between Urban and Rural Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; 3: Hospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; Introduction; Essentials Components of a Sudden Mass Casualty Incident Plan; Introduction; Hospital Surge Capacity Calculation. Assumptions and DefinitionsMaximal Number of Patients (MNP) Per Hospital; Distribution of Victims by Severity; Treatment Areas, Alternate Sites, and Deployment of Extra Equipment and Supplies; Principles; Designated Treatment Areas; Sources of Personnel for the Treatment Areas; Equipment and Supplies; Hospital Communications During Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents; Assumptions; Channels (Frequencies); Activation of a Mass Casualty Plan; Activation; Call-In of Essential Personnel in a Sudden Mass Casualty Incident; Methods for Call-In of Personnel; Identification Badges; Parking; Meeting Points. Hospital Strategies to Prevent "Flooding" of PatientsHospital Response: Preparation Triage Area and Emergency Department; Preparation of "Stretchers Concentration Point"; Preparation of Triage Area; Evacuation of ED; Preparation of ED and In-Hospital Treatment Sites; Hospital Response: Identification, Registration, Triage, and Inflow of Patients; Identification; Registration; Triage; The Medical Care Philosophy During a Sudden Mass Casualty Incident; Principles of Medical Care Inside the Treatment Sites; Blood Bank; Laboratory; Radiology. Family/Friends Information Center, Tracking of Patients, and Media Relations in a Sudden Mass Casualty IncidentFamily/Friends Information Center (FIC) (Fig. 3.16); Tracking; Media Center; Hospital Incident Command in a Sudden Mass Casualty Incident; Triage Hospital; 4: Medical Challenges in Managing Blast Injuries; Introduction; Classification of Blast Injuries; 5: Medical Aspects of Volcanic Eruptions; 6: Burns Mass Casualty Incident; 7: Medical Response to Mass Shootings; Epidemiology; Prehospital; Emergency Department.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (167 pages)
• Subjects: 353.95; Medicine; Emergency management -- Planning; Surgery; Trauma; Emergency medicine; Orthopedic surgery; Practice of medicine; Nursing; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief; Medical -- Surgery -- General; Medical -- Emergency Medicine; Medical -- Orthopedics; Medical -- Administration; Medical -- Nursing -- General; Critical care surgery; Accident & emergency medicine; Orthopaedics & fractures; Medical administration & management; Nursing; General surgery; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319973616; 3319973614
• Related ISBNs: 9783319973609; 3319973606
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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