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Understanding the psychological impacts of responding to a terrorist incident
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021 Background: Responding to a mass casualty event can cause significant distress, even for highly trained medical and emergency services personnel. Objective: The purpose of the study was to understand more about first responders’ perspectives about their ...
Elena A. Skryabina +3 more
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Electronic Physician, 2017 Background: Special incidents are harmful events that can result in people’s death or injury. Despite registering special incidents’ data in Iran, no study has yet been conducted to identify the types, rates, mortality and morbidity of such incidents ...
Javad Bazeli +2 more
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A preliminary study for selecting the appropriate AI-based forecasting model for hospital assets demand under disasters [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2022 Purpose – Hospitals recently search for more accurate forecasting systems, given the unpredictable demand and the increasing occurrence of disruptive incidents (mass casualty incidents, pandemics and natural disasters).
Sara Jebbor +2 more
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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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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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Mass Casualty Triage and Tagging Scenario in the Pre-hospital Setting Simulated Event
MedEdPORTAL, 2012 This Mass Casualty Simulation Event was started and designed by medical students from the Emergency Medicine Interest Group in conjunction with our emergency medicine service fellows.
Paul Y. Ko +6 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, Mary E +5 more
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Developing the Disaster Medical Responder’s Course in Singapore
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2023 Problem: Emergency medical teams (EMTs) deployed to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) are required to work outside their usual settings and according to different principles, which may affect their performance and the survival of casualties.
Jen Heng Pek +4 more
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Electronic Physician, 2017 Background: Traffic incidents are of main health issues all around the world and cause countless deaths, heavy casualties, and considerable tangible and intangible damage.
Javad Bazeli +2 more
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Challenges Related to Mass Casualty Incidents
, 2016 This last chapter of the manual focuses on special challenges when managing sudden mass casualty incidents (SMCIs) and includes specific medical tips when handling patients suffering crush and blast injuries, the most common identification processes of ...
Mauricio Lynn, Lynn, Mauricio
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