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20 Cards in this Set
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Incident commander |
Person in charge. May change to more experienced person. |
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Finance |
Responsible for documenting all expenditures at an incident for reimbursement |
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Logistics |
Responsible for communications equipment, facilities, food and water, lighting, and Med equipment/ supplies |
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Operations |
Supervise the people working at the scene. At a very large incident, responsible for managing the tactical operations usually handled by the IC |
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Planning |
Solves problems as they arrive and develops and incident action plan |
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Safety officer |
Monitoring the scene for conditions or operations that may present a hazard |
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Public information officer |
Provides media with clear info |
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Liasion officer |
Relaying info and concerns among command and the staff |
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3 questions in scene size up |
What do I have? What do I need to do? What resources do I need? |
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Triage supervisor |
In charge of counting and prioritizing patients |
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Treatment supervisor |
In charge of locating and setting up treatment area. Secondary triage |
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Transportation supervisor |
Coordinates the transportation and distribution of patients to appropriate receiving hospital |
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Mass Casualty Incident |
3 or more patients or more patients than providers. Declare MCI, request additional resources, initiate the ICS and triage procedure |
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Triage |
Meaning to sort |
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START triage |
Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment. Must asses the resperatory status, circulation, and neurologic status |
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JumpSTART Triage |
For use in children younger than 8 and weigh less than 100 lbs. If the child has no pulse or is not breathing after rescue breathes, must be labeled as expectant |
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Green tagged patients |
Minor or minimal. Minor fractures, minor soft tissue injuries |
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Yellow tagged patients |
Delayed. Burns without airway problems, major or multiple bone or joint injuries, back injuries without spinal cord damage |
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Red tagged patients |
Immediate. Airway and breathing difficulties, uncontrollable or severe bleeding, decreased level of consciousness, severe medical problems, signs of Hypoperfusion and shock, severe burns |
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Black tagged patients |
Expectant. Obviously dead, obviously nonsurvivable injury, respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest |
