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Overview: Prepping communities Flashcards

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What is the NDLS concept?

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Critical to healthcare prep

Uniform, coordinated approached to mass casualty management from all hazards

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How is NDLS best accomplished?

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Standardized education and training

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What is the mission of NDLS?

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The implement and maintain a nationwide foundation in education and training resulting in a measurable impact in disaster prep to a critical mass of healthcare work force

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D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R.

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Detection, Incident management, Security and safety, Assess hazards, Support, Triage/Treatment, Evacuation, Recovery

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What is a disaster?

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When the need exceeds the resources

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What is a mass casualty incident?

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A healthcare disaster where the number of causalities is greater than the ability of the healthcare system to care for them
Healthcare need exceeds resources

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What is all-hazards preparedness?

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Plans and training for incidents regardless of the cause, man-made or naturally occuring

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What are some man-made hazards?

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Terrorism, Bioterrorism, Structural collapse, Fires, Explosions

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What are some natural hazards?

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Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Emerging Infectious Diseases

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What is terrorism?

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An act intended to inflict harm upon a civilian population to coerce or intimidate

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What is bioterrorism?

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An act of terrorism using biological agents (e.g. anthrax)

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What is WMD?

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

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What is WME?

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Weapons of Mass Effect

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What is CBRNE?

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Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive

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What are the parts of detection?

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Not all disasters are obvious, possible insidious onset, resources overwhelmed, detect event cause, communicate “disaster” status

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What are the parts of incident management?

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National incident management system, mandated by homeland security, incident command, provides orderly chain of command and control, clearly defined roles, “span of control”

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What are the basics of incident command?

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Unified command;

Planning, logistics, operations, finance

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What is Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HICS)?

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Incident command system specific for hospitals that meets JCAHO requirements for disaster management command and control

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What are the parts of security and safety?

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Secure ingress and egress (scene, hospital), prevent self transport, ID and mitigate obvious threats to secuirty

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What is priority one while assessing hazards?

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Protect self and team first, don’t become part of the problem, utilize personal protective equipment, medical decontamination methods

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After priority one has been satisfied in assessing hazards what happens next?

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Protect public, patients, and environment (in that order)

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What are the parts of support?

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What are the resources needed, who has them, when will they arrive

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What are the parts of triage?

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Sorting pts into severity of injury and likelihood of survival

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What does MASS mean as a triage system?

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Move, Assess, Sort, Send

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What are the triage categories of “ID-me”?

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Immediate, Delayed, Minimal, Expectant, Dead

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What are the parts of treatment?

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Treatment continues until all pts transported to healthcare areas, resources unavailable to provide treatment (comfort is care)
Treatment location and documentation

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What are the parts of evacuation?

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Pts to be removed from scene, public evac of elderly, poor, nursing homes, hospital evac in catastrophic event

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What is the recovery part?

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Long-term goal of event, minimize event impact

Begins when incident occurs, ends often years later

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What are the operational and logistic considerations of recovery?

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Personnel, vehicles, equipment

PCBM M1T3 (22 decks)

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