Book 70 MCI Flashcards
_______ structure is designed to provide the Incident Commander with an organizational system for handling any number of patients or an unusual geographic separation of a multi-casualty incident.
The Medical Branch
____________ is reserved for incidents with a medical component that includes an unusually large number of victims, where patients are spread over a large area, or access to patients is separated by a great distance.
The Medical Branch
The following examples are of incident types where the Medical Branch may be implemented:
• Metro Rail Incident: separation of access and egress by as much as ____ feet.
800
______ are the basic level established at an LAFD incident when the number of resources exceed the span of control of the Incident Commander or Operations Chief.
Medical Groups
_________ is responsible for the implementation of the Incident Action Plan within the Branch.
The Medical Branch Director
Who establishes command and control of the activities within a Medical Group, in order to assure the best possible emergency medical care to patients during a multi-casualty incident.
Medical Group Supervisor
Assume responsibility for providing triage management and movement of patients from the triage area. When triage has been completed.
Triage Unit Leader
Who assume responsibility for treatment, coordination of patient treatment, and preparation for transport, in the treatment areas. Direct movement of patients to loading location(s)
Treatment Unit Leader
Who is responsible for coordinating with Transportation Unit/Group or Medical Group Supervisor, the transportation of patients out of the treatment area.
Treatment Dispatch Manager
Who maintains communications with the Medical Alert Center (MAC) to assure proper patient transportation and destination. Coordinate information through Transportation Unit Leader/Group Supervisor and Transportation Recorder.
Medical Communications Coordinator
The Ambulance Staging Manager requests additional transportation resources as appropriate through the ?
Transportation Unit Leader/Group Supervisor.
What is a communications system between medical facilities and on incident Department personnel, which provides available hospital patient receiving capability and/or medical control.
HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE RADIO (HEAR):
Definition:
Hospital teams that respond to the incident upon request.
HOSPITAL TEAMS/HOSPITAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS (HERT)
Definition:
Located at Los Angeles County USC Medical Center, MAC coordinates 11 blanket-standing orders” and patient destinations for multi-casualty incidents occurring within Los Angeles County.
MEDICAL ALERT CENTER (MAC)
The _________ Leader has the responsibility to communicate patient readiness for transport.
Treatment Unit
