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A Simulated Mass Casualty Incident Triage Exercise: SimWars
MedEdPORTAL, 2019 Introduction This multipatient simulation exercise encompasses triage by hospital medical providers during a mass casualty incident (MCI) involving gas line explosion with building collapse. The SimWars format allows two teams to participate in identical
Suzanne Bentley +10 more
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Staff Perspectives of Mass Casualty Incident Preparedness. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Introduction Mass casualty incidents (MCI) are low-frequency, high-risk events that disrupt the day-to-day operations of medical centers. Day-to-day protocols are insufficient for effectively managing MCI events, creating a need to develop and test MCI-specific protocols.
Moran ME +5 more
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Mass Casualty Incident Primary Triage Methods in China
Chinese Medical Journal, 2015 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 ...
Jin-Hong Chen +3 more
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing a Mass Casualty Incident Management System [PDF]
, 2011 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 ...
Adler, Christine +6 more
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Using infrared cameras in drones to detect bleeding events
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Hemorrhage is one of the main causes of death in trauma. Critical bleeding in patients needs to be detected as soon as possible to save the patient.
Christoph West +4 more
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The Great Belt train accident: the emergency medical services response
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Major incidents (MI) are rare occurrences in Scandinavia. Literature depicting Scandinavian MI management is scarce and case reports and research is called for.
Peter Martin Hansen +3 more
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Self-care decontamination within a chemical exposure mass-casualty incident [PDF]
, 2015 Growing awareness and concern for the increasing frequency of incidents involving hazardous materials (HazMat) across a broad spectrum of contaminants from chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sources indicates a clear need to refine ...
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Injury Prevention, 2010 All citizens can play an important role in the optimisation of resources and care, as health active agents, agents of civil protection first responders and potential victims of a mass casualty incident. Mass casualty incident is a MCI scenario film that can be utilised as a pedagogical tool for individual and social awareness for violence and injury ...
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background There is no global consensus on the use of prehospital triage system in mass casualty incidents. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the most commonly used pre-existing prehospital triage systems for the possibility of creating one ...
Amir Khorram-Manesh +5 more
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GABEK WinRelan® – a Qualitative Method for Crisis Research Engaging Crisis Management Personnel [PDF]
, 2012 Qualitative research methods like GABEK WinRelan are advantageous tools to analyze and thereby improve crisis management planning and communication systems by interrogating crisis management personnel.
Haus, Mirjam +5 more
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