Overview
- Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management
- Contains real-life lessons learned
- Provides a practical, standard and protocol driven approach
- Contains algorithms / checklists for rapid response to events
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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 number of injured or contaminated patients that overwhelm the local health care system. From activation of the MCI plan to the specific medical care of multiple simultaneous patients, the manual offers checklists and algorithms of “what to do” during the first minutes after a MCI occurred. The manual is designed to be adapted and modified for specific institutions according to their size and capabilities.
Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management, Mass Casualty Incidents: The Nuts and Bolts of Preparedness and Response for Acute Disasters is a valuable resource for all health care professionals and institutions that deal with mass casualty incidents.
Written by a world expert in the field of MCI management, Mass Casualty Incidents: The Nuts and Bolts of Preparedness and Response for Acute Disasters is a valuable resource for all health care professionals and institutions that deal with mass casualty incidents.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
LTC (Ret.-IDF) Mauricio Lynn, MD, FACS, FSCCM
Professor of Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, The DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Miami, FL, USA
Professor of Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, The DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Miami, FL, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mass Casualty Incidents
Authors: Mauricio Lynn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3496-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3496-6Published: 06 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 95
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Surgery, Traumatic Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Surgical Orthopedics, Health Administration, Nursing