Mass-casualty incident

In our daily life, emergency situations occur frequently. Places and settings including emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), multi-casualty incidents (for instance car crashes) and mass casualty incidents (including fire outbreak and natural disasters) can all fall under the umbrella of emergency situations [Hoppes 2011]. These circumstances often involve immediate risks to health, life, property, or environment. In most cases, emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, while facing the contradiction between scarce resources and the abundant need for treatment. Triage is a mechanistic system designed to balance the mismatch of need and resources and it is the best and most effective choice for…

recommend bystanders of nearby Involuntary external defibrillators to be used in the case of a cardiac arrest. This ensures each patient receives the best possible medical attention until trained responders arrive often making the difference between life and death. Telecommunicators employ a inclusive variety of skills and technological assets to provide the best service to citizens in necessity. They are trained in mass casualty incident coordination and can communicate with Fire, Police and…

Unified Command The unified command in the mass incident casualty is a plan that Unification and organized plans and strategies and the same objectives between the agencies so that they can work easily with the incident. Unified Command is a plan that brings together the Incident Commanders of all major agencies involved in the incident to keep the work Organized and to be effective response without affecting agency authorities. Because when each of the agencies work individually it will make a…

The City of Waco Fire Department responded to the Twin Peaks incident on May 17, 2015 one of the largest loss of life incidents in the city since the 1957 Tornado. In order to decrease the loss of life from Active Shooter/Mass Casualty Incidents in the future, the fire department should institute a Mass Casualty Alarm assignment and implement the use of tourniquets as part of our medical protocols for exsanguination wounds. Mass Casualty Alarm would send an appropriate amount of first…

over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency response is not merely an act of preparing some amount of materials and assembling personnel. Responders often delve into unfamiliar tasks, which require an utmost urgency. Field…

moved to Denver, Colorado, that they would be excluded from taking part in the trials. The people believed that the broadcast was the only way they would be able to stay connected with the trial. After fighting for some time, the broadcast of the proceedings was put into federal law by President Bill Clinton when he signed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in 1996 (Johnson). The trial was streamed through private television to an auditorium located near the Oklahoma City airport…

Personality characteristics of shooters became of interest because of the high death toll and types of victims involved in the occurrences of mass casualty incidents since the Columbine High School shootings in 1999. Vossekuil (2002) analysed thirty-seven incidents of targeted school violence in which he found common characteristic in the profiles of the offenders among the incidents. Like (author), Vossekuil (2002) identified that all of the attackers were males, and 95% of them were current…

In particular, these incidents require additional healthcare staff, communication, resources, and preparations. In the beginning, the emergency plan for mass casualty incidents are triggered by reports of an upcoming hurricane. It is then followed by the actual implementation and carrying out of the plan. Accordingly, the most efficient strategy for this kind of event is the triage plan. In detail, the triage nurse and triage officer will assign triage categories to all patients. These are as…

their misunderstanding been so tragic" –Nixon. My Lai, a small village in Southern Vietnam, is the site of a mass killing of around 347 to 504 unarmed civilians. The victims included men, women, children, and infants. After the horrific events, the support for the war in Vietnam dropped significantly. On October 15, 1969, millions of Americans engaged in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. The massacre was a critical moment, and it initiated the end of the United States contributions in…

be strictly limited. The most important problem of gun is about safety. The crime rate of America has been rising because of gun and more and more people died or hurt in more and more shooting accident. The United States Federal Bureau of investigation 2016 crime report shows that 73% of murders in 2016 involved guns.[1] The American gun violence record room, statistics on firearms casualties in 2017, showed…