I am looking for information regarding encountered issues and a communications overview in mass casualty incidents and disasters responses. This should be addressed by doctors, nurses, paramedics and any other participants. Are there radio communication problems on route and at the scene? If so, what does that encompass and can this be quantified? What about the general overview of the intervention, like amplitude, knowing the incident and route beforehand, patient information transmission to the hospital or on arrival, debriefing.
Dear Adrian,
if they can be useful, I send You 2 files. The first is my presentation of the Linate air disaster in 2001, managed by myself as Chief Doctor, and the second is an outline (for evaluating any disaster) That I use for a drill or to evaluate a casualty. Sorry, they are in Italian but I think You'll have not difficulties to understand or to translate them. Best Wishes, GFV
You have raised an important question. One approach is to capture and align all the coordinating nodes necessary to respond effectively to a mass casualty event--care should be taken to distinguish a plane crash from a complex HAZMAT event and in turn recognize the complexities of pandemic response. They are not the same although their metrics are similar. Talk with experts and validate the nodes looking for evidence of basic communication requirements, typical requirements, crucial requirements and lapses which experts regard as contrary to, and often disruptively injected, into ongoing crisis communications. Look at time-sensitive issues, information sharing, and tracking of injured, DOA and juveniles. Getting the injured from the disaster site to the primary care facility is key--how that is done and under what priority procedures is also crucial.
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