Registered nurses’ experience as disaster preparedness coordinators during a major incident: A qualitative study [PDF]
Nursing Open, 2022 Aims To explore registered nurses’ experiences as disaster preparedness coordinators of hospital incident command groups’ during a major incident. Design A qualitative descriptive design using semi‐structured interview.
Jason P. Murphy +5 more
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Does the “state of disaster” response have a downside? Hospital incident command group leaders’ experiences of a terrorist-induced major incident: a qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Emergency MedicineAim This study explores HICGs’ experience of disaster response during a terrorist-induced major incident major incident. Design A qualitative descriptive design with individual semi-structured interviews was used.
Jason P. Murphy +4 more
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Major incident preparedness: a curriculum and workplace necessity [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020 Major incidents are defined as: An event or situation with a range of serious consequences, which require special arrangements to be implemented by one, or more emergency responder agency. The ability for a healthcare system to respond effectively relies
Dominic Hampson
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Prehospital major incident management: how do training and real-life situations relate? A qualitative study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Objective To explore the relationship between preparations and real-life experiences among prehospital major incident commanders.Design An explorative, qualitative design was used.Setting Prehospital major incidents in Sweden. Data were collected between
Karin Hugelius +2 more
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Hospital incident command groups’ performance during major incident simulations: a prospective observational study [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background Hospital incident command groups’ (HICG) performance may have a profound impact on hospital response to major incidents. Previous research has assessed hospital incident command group capacity as opposed to performance and factors associated ...
Jason P. Murphy +3 more
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Paediatric major incident simulation and the number of discharges achieved using a major incident rapid discharge protocol in a major trauma centre: a retrospective study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives Hospitals have the responsibility of creating, testing and maintaining major incident (MI) plans. Plans emphasise readiness for acceptance of casualties, though often they neglect discharge planning and care for existing inpatients to make ...
Naomi Edmonds +10 more
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Major incident simulation in Rwanda: A report of two exercises [PDF]
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018 Introduction: Healthcare systems must be equipped to handle major incidents. Few have been described in the African setting, including in Rwanda. The purpose of this case report was to describe and discuss two major incident simulations in Rwanda with ...
Gabin Mbanjumucyo +3 more
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Cross-border collaboration in a major incident: emergency medical services response to a train crash [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency MedicineBackground On 15 August 2025, a fatal train crash happened in Southern Denmark following a collision with a truck at an unsecured railway crossing, resulting in derailment and one overturned carriage.
Peter Martin Hansen +6 more
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Modelling and Simulation for Major Incidents [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology, 2015 In recent years, there has been a rise in Major Incidents with big impact on the citizens health and the society. Without the possibility of conducting live experiments when it comes to physical and/or toxic trauma, only an accurate in silico ...
Eleonora Pacciani +9 more
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Preparation for and organization during a major incident. [PDF]
Surgery (Oxf), 2015 Major incidents during the past 30 years have caused the NHS and other agencies to respond in a coordinated fashion and create the comprehensive Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response framework 2013. This along with supporting documents gives a detailed structure of the role of the NHS in any type of major incident from man-made disaster to ...
Bennett SR.
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