The resource outlines the essential roles and responsibilities health care personnel providing immediate care to victims of mass casualty incidents, particularly those involving hazardous materials.
Presented by Sunrise Hospital of Las Vegas, this session reviews the hospital’s efficiencies, challenges, and lessons-learned from their response to a mass casualty incident.
2020 Virtual Disaster Conference
Learn about the challenges faced by New York City hospitals in managing the unprecedented surge in fatalities. This session outlines how the the city’s mass fatality management plans were quickly overwhelmed, and reviews how hospital quickly adapted to increase mortuary space, redeploy staff, and work closely with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to manage body collection points and long-term storage. The session also outlined the various logistical challenges faced by hospitals and emphasized the need for improved coordination, enhanced hospital preparedness, and updates to fatality management plans for future emergencies.
2023 Disaster Conference – Best Practice Showcase
The document describes policies implemented by Pomona Valley Hospital and standardizes responses for large-scale emergencies that could overwhelm hospital resources. The program includes quarterly and annual training, focusing on rapid setup and resource allocation, with ongoing physician engagement and family reunification plans. The hospital has seen substantial improvements in activation time for emergencies, reducing setup time from over 45 minutes to just 15.
This session provides strategies for hospitals to automate their Mass Casualty Incident Response to improve outcomes. The presentation provides an overview of the threat landscape, ways hospitals can identify essential elements, describes the need for mass casualty incident protocols, and reviews lessons-learned from past events/exercises.
This session outlines the “15 til 50″ mass casualty incident response methodology, demonstrates how to implement the methodology, and provides an overview of the “15 til 50” toolkit and resources.
This webinar offers insight and lessons-learned from the Aurora, Colorado Theater Shooting.
Lieutenant Stephen Redfearn, one of the first responders in the Aurora shooting reviews lessons learned from the Aurora Movie Theater Shooting. He served Aurora PD since 1999, and currently oversees and supervises the major investigation section.
Overcrowding makes Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) planning increasingly difficult for hospital emergency departments (EDs). MCI plans must incorporate tactics for rapidly and safely clearing space in EDs to accommodate the influx of casualties. The goal of this planning is to provide the greatest good for the greatest number of patients, both at the hospital before the disaster and for new casualties being received. Stanford experts will review how this planning is designed and how it has been refined with years of practice at their facility.
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the similarities and differences in planned vs. emergency/disaster events and analyzes the different consideration for each in the context of disaster planning.