The World Trade Center attack and collapse is the first time an aircraft has been used as a weapon of mass effect. The scale and magnitude of this manmade disaster can only be compared with a natural catastrophe such as the Armenian earthquake of December 1988. The importance of an incident command system and the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment, and the need for fixed Casualty Collection Poin...

INTRODUCTION Terrorist attacks have occurred in Tel-Aviv that have caused mass-casualties. The objective of this study was to draw lessons from the medical response to an event that occurred on 19 January 2006, near the central bus station, Tel-Aviv, Israel. The lessons pertain to the management of primary triage, evacuation priorities, and rapid primary distribution between adjacent hospitals ...

Purpose To educate health care students on the importance of emergency preparedness and disaster response training related to self-confidence critical thinking needed when caring for victims mass casualty incidents (MCI).
 Method A mixed-method design was employed. post intervention-survey administered radiologic sciences nursing following their participation in a full-scale drill scenario...

On Thursday 8 January 1998, a Czech Hip helicopter with 21 personnel on board crashed shortly after take off from Bos Krupa, northwest Bosnia. Seventeen casualties (including six with severe injuries) were airlifted from the scene for treatment at the British Hospital Squadron in Sipovo before aeromedical evacuation the next day to Prague, or discharge to their unit. This was the largest mass c...

OBJECTIVE To produce a casualty profile for the Manchester bombing and to illustrate the potential uses of such templates in major incident planning. METHODS A retrospective review of casualty notes from the Manchester bombing. RESULTS A complete anonymous casualty profile for the Manchester bombing is given with AIS90 coded injuries. The majority (129, 62%) of casualties sustained minor in...

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) are highly dynamic situations in which limited available resources need to be quickly and efficiently allocated. In this paper, we suggest considerable extensions to an allocation method that we presented in earlier work. The extensions address two major challenges: First, the need to balance real-world resource usage and second, the need to adapt to changing situa...

The first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings reminds us of the critical importance of multiagency operational plans for high-threat civilian trauma response. Through the commitment of the many national and local leaders, we are more prepared than we were in 2013. Still, we must remain vigilant and continue to drive forward. The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and ...