How do you define man made disaster and what should be the hospital planning to meet mass casualties?
disaster are either natural or man made – terrorist attacks, plain or train accidents . Hospital emergencies are usually not geared to receive mass casualties, what should be the hospital planning to meet such a situation?
Have allot of staff and equipment on standby, and rooms which are free and can be used.
Also, sort out the patients.
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Failed: Person can’t be saved and time spent on this person would be wasted and indirectly cause more death.
Priority: Person can be saved but needs help quickly, or he/she will die.
Critical: Person does not need immediate attention, but does need aid and fast.
Non-critical: Needs a bandages and painkillers.
Have allot of staff and equipment on standby, and rooms which are free and can be used.
Also, sort out the patients.
Failed: Person can’t be saved and time spent on this person would be wasted and indirectly cause more death.
Priority: Person can be saved but needs help quickly, or he/she will die.
Critical: Person does not need immediate attention, but does need aid and fast.
Non-critical: Needs a bandages and painkillers.
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I’d say any event that happens as a result of humans mucking around with nature would be man-made. I know a lot of these answers will be based on how to react to the inflow of patients, but I wonder if the hospital folks are ready to hunker down for a long period of time without food and water. Sure, they have tons of medicine, but what about basics? What if the med staff couldn’t leave and had to feed themselves over the course of a few days? I’d say they’d need some emergency rations and supplies once the crappy hotdogs and Starbucks scones ran out. Maybe something like this: http://foresightsupply.com/prod-office.html.
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http://foresightsupply.com/prod-office.html
http://www.fema.gov