Tag: multiple casualty patients
- START For Mass Casualty Triage ()
The assessment that you will perform as a member of the triage team is simple. You will assess each patient in terms of respirations, pulse, and mental status. By virtue of this simple assessment, the medics should be able to determine (in less than 30 seconds) if a patient is dead/dying, immediate, or delayed. Remember, […]
- Mass Casualty Incident ()
What to do if the call is bigger than what the ambulance service can handle Mass casualty incidents are incidents that have more patients than what can be provided by the local ambulance service. How would the medics know they are in the middle of a mass casualty incident? Ambulance – Medic One to dispatch […]
- Multiple Patient Incidents ()
Anytime an ambulance arrives, a scene size up is conducted by the medics. After determining if the scene is safe and if a mechanism of injury exists, the medics must determine the number of patients. Usually, ambulances respond to a single patient, but what would happen if there were more than one patient? First, the […]