Mass Casualty Incidents

• Main Author: Lynn, Mauricio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Health administration.; Nursing.; Orthopedics.; Surgery.; Traumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Traumatic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Health Administration.

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...

Table of Contents:

• General Information
• Pre-hospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
• Hospital Planning and Response to Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
• Other Sudden Mass Casualty Incidents
• Challenges Related to Mass Casualty Incidents. .