Triage
MCI trailers provide a critical tool for dealing with emergency incidents
Regularly reviewing and practicing MCI skills will make sure EMS personnel are ready to act when a major incident happens
Keeping patients moving toward definitive treatment through accurate triage of life threats is the key to EMS success at a mass casualty incident
Putnam County Firefighter-EMT Darrell Jennings aided at least 20 injured neighbors after a tornado swept through his community
The state’s medical director instructed providers to ask patients showing certain symptoms whether they’ve recently traveled to Wuhan, China
Rapid restoration of blood flow is the most critical determiner of functional brain survival
What do Abraham Lincoln, the Revolutionary War, and an orthopedist named Thomas all have in common? They all played a pioneering & influential role in trauma care within the U.S.
911 nurse triage and a high utilizer group program are exponentially reducing transports and healthcare expenditures while increasing patient satisfaction
The unfortunate reality remains that victims die because of treatment delays
Tony Rosado was part of the Florida chapter of the American Volunteer Emergency Response Team deployed to the region after the disaster
Paramedics used the app to quickly identify victims during a joint mass casualty drill and categorized patients based on injury
As active shooters target different locations and mass gatherings, first responders need to adapt their preparation and response from the rescue task force model
Preparation, practice, standardization and community involvement will enable your EMS agency to act quickly and decisively in response to MCIs
A level-two mass casualty event was declared to free up the resources needed to address a large number of injured people
The role of EMS medical directors in maintaining patient-focused care as CMS reimbursement models adapt with ET3
EMS leaders triage improvement projects, remove roadblocks and celebrate well-executed projects
Our co-hosts sit down with award-winning speaker and author Rommie Duckworth, who explains how to diagnose, treat and manage septic patients
Applying global solutions and the CMS ET3 model to EMS’s low acuity patient population with alternative destination transport
Know when to stop, how much assistance to provide and how to hand off patient care to responding authorities
Crowd size, location and similar event intelligence can help predict patient load and MCI response needs at a mass gathering
EMS triage and destination, emergency department, transfer and stroke team protocols are essential to rapid definitive treatment for ischemic stroke
From full-scale to tabletop exercises, preparing for a mass casualty incident should be part of disaster management training
Great active shooter incident training takes a concerted effort to make exercises real, relevant, interesting and captivating for all participants
SALT Triage System is the foundation of the new MUCC Instructional Guidelines for training paramedics and EMTs in mass casualty triage
“People were begging me to take them because they were in so much pain,” paramedic Dean Weber said
Protection from above and layperson bleeding control are among the immediate takeaways from Las Vegas mass shooting for EMS personnel and paramedic chiefs
Students covered in fake blood or wearing fake arms with burns and injuries on them wandered around the college campus
Test your ability to apply the SALT triage method to a collection of simulated MCI patients
Orange County EMS medical director describes expected and unexpected lessons learned from the deadliest shooting in U.S. history at NAEMSP annual meeting
Test your ability to apply the START algorithm to a collection of simulated MCI patients
You responded as the first-in ambulance on a suspected active shooting scene; did you make the right call?
You are dispatched to a law office for multiple shooting victims
High-fidelity, full-scale exercises for SWAT and EMS at Urban Shield 2016 create a unique and memorable MCI and active shooter training experience
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