Mass Casualty Incidents
The Nuts and Bolts of Preparedness and Response for Acute Disasters
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Main description:
This manual is aimed to provide health care professionals, at the scene and at hospitals, as well as allied organizations, a practical and operational approach for planning the response to mass casualty incidents (MCI’s), with emphasis to the types of events that are sudden in nature, resulting in a number of injured or contaminated patients that overwhelm the local health care system. From activation of the MCI plan to the specific medical care of multiple simultaneous patients, the manual offers checklists and algorithms of “what to do” during the first minutes after a MCI occurred. The manual is designed to be adapted and modified for specific institutions according to their size and capabilities.
Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management, Mass Casualty Incidents: The Nuts and Bolts of Preparedness and Response for Acute Disasters is a valuable resource for all health care professionals and institutions that deal with mass casualty incidents.
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Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management
Contains real-life lessons learned
Provides a practical, standard and protocol driven approach
Contains algorithms / checklists for rapid response to events
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This manual is aimed to provide health care professionals, at the scene and at hospitals, as well as allied organizations, a practical and operational approach for planning the response to mass casualty incidents (MCI’s), with emphasis to the types of events that are sudden in nature, resulting in a number of injured or contaminated patients that overwhelm the local health care system. From activation of the MCI plan to the specific medical care of multiple simultaneous patients, the manual offers checklists and algorithms of “what to do” during the first minutes after a MCI occurred. The manual is designed to be adapted and modified for specific institutions according to their size and capabilities.
Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management, Mass Casualty Incidents: The Nuts and Bolts of Preparedness and Response for Acute Disasters is a valuable resource for all health care professionals and institutions that deal with mass casualty incidents.
Contents:
Chapter 1. General Information
Chapter 2. Pre-hospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
Chapter 3. Hospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
Chapter 4. Other Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
Chapter 5. Challenges Related to Mass Casualty Incidents
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ISBN-13: 9781493934942
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Publication date: January, 2016
Pages: 110
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Subcategories: Accident & Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, General, General Practice, Nursing, Orthopaedics and Fractures
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Publication date: January, 2016
Pages: 110
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Accident & Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, General, General Practice, Nursing, Orthopaedics and Fractures
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