Emergency Preparadness Flashcards
START
Simple triage and Rapid Treatment. The most commonly used adult mass casualty incident triage tool in the US. Patient categorized within 30 -60 seconds by RPM as Green (walk away) Yellow (urgent) Red (critical), Black (expectant death)
SAVE
Secondary Assessment of Vicim Endpoint. After START, patients are treated by priority if they have a 50% chance of survival
SALT
Sort Assess Lifesaving interventions and treatment/transport
a system, but not the most common.
Model uniform Core Criteria
Set of triage criteria developed by a consensus group of SME examining evidence supporting existing mass casualty systems.
What are the types of FEMA incidents
Type 1 : tornado with entire community damage, hurricane cat. 3, 4, 5. pandemic, railroad tank explosion; multilevel explosive device wide spread fire or flood.
STeps in investigating an outbreak
- verify diagnosis
- confirmation of epidemic
- Identify population at risk
- surveillance strategy
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contact hazard
What are the 4 stages in emergency management
Mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery