Week 4 - What dictates how we respond? Flashcards
How is resilince built for emergency mangment of major incidents?
Giving each state government responsibility for their emergency response plans learning from mistakes empowering local governments/communities increasing public education assisting local planning
what laws govern emergency responses?
Emergency managment act 2013
What does the SHERP stand for?
State health emergency response plan
What is the basic role of the SHERP?
Coordinating health response to jobs that are above the level of normal capacity/bussiness
Describes the principals, command and coordination arrangments and roles/responsibilits for a health emergency response
What is SERP?
State emergency response plan
- SHERP is a sub plan under SERP
What are the aims of SHERP?
Reduce preventable death
reduce permanate diability
improve paitent outocmes- match pt injury level to treatment options in a safe and timley manner
What is the purpose of SHERP?
safe, effective and cordinated medical response
Clarifies acountability for command and coordination
outline arrangment for escalating health response
describes how avalible resources are allocated
describes how health and emergency response interconnecs with the state and national emergency response and recovery arrangments
What/who is directed but SHERP?
Community members, Ambulance, Non-emerge, Hospitals, GPs, event planner, medical first aid
What are the three Cs under SHERP?
Control- involves the overall direction of response activites in an emergency- legislated who is incontrol in EMMV
Coordination: involves bringing together agencies and recourses to ensure effective response and recovery
Command: relates to an agency and acts virtically within and agency
What is the role of ambualnce victoria within sherp?
Provide health command Provide appropriate skill and equipment triage casulties provide first aid/advanced treatment provide most effective transport assist with coordinating medical teams provide health support to other agencies provide medical support to casulties undergoing decontamination
What is the role of a health commander under SHERP?
reports to critical incident manager
responsible for directing operations at site
HC will be a senior ambulance manager
What is the tole of the ambulance commander under SHERP?
Initally most senior paramedic on scene
role later taken over by senior manager
responisble for managing ambualnce resources on scene
reports to the health commander
What is the role of the ambulance supervisor?
Report to and take direction from ambulance commader
will be appropitaly expirenced
may not always be neccisary
more than one may be required
what is the role of the duty manager?
coordinates inital response CIM and ambulance response
what is the role of the reginal CIM?
responsible for regional implemntation of ERP
is and operational member of the regional managment team
what is the role of the state CIM
Overall responsibility for ERP
Is and operational memeber of the emergency managment unit
What does AIIMS stand for?
Australasia inter-agency incident magment system
What is AIIMS?
Incident control systemt (ICS)
Scalable managment tool
What is the origin of AIIMS?
developed in mid-eighties from american
recognised needed due to rise in multi-agencie incidents
Need for conistant, universally understood and applied system
what does AIIMS provide?
Common managment framework for emergency managment roles to assist in providing effective and effiecnt control of icidents
What types of large scale emergenies toes AIIMS provied organised priniciapls for?
- mass casultie incidents
natural disaters
industry disaster
What are the three key prinicples of AIIMS?
Managment objectives as desired outcomes and implemented maagment plans
Funtional managment- control, planning, operations and logistices
Span of control
what does CIM stand for?
Critical incident manager
what are the attributes of AIIMS?
Defined functions uniform termonology adaptable and scalable approach defined incident managment structure clear;y defined roles and responsibilites
what is a high threat environment?
incident that involve potential or actual risk of physical harm to responders.
what is a paramedics role in a high threat scene?
remain safe
life saving interventions
reduce suffering
transport to definitive care
what is a hot zone in a high threat situation?
specalist police resources responding into where there is still an active threat
Activly dangerous environment
what is the warm zone in a high threat environment?
zone next to the warm zone where the injuered and unijured civilians are moved into so ambulances in the presence of police can collect paitents and move them out
what is the cold zone in a high threat environment?
a more safe zone where the access/egress can be though about, casultiy clearing and loading pints in this zone
what does PHEIC stand for?
Public health emergency of international concerns
what is the purpose of the International health regulations 2005?
Prevent, protect control; and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease and avoid unneccissary interference with internatinal traffic and trade
what is survalience that informs PHEIC?
continuous systamatic collection, analysis and interpretation of data so there can be planning, implemntation and eveluation of public health practice
what is the purpose of SHERP?
to describe the intergrated approach and shared responsibilities for health emergency managment between DHHS, ambulance victoria, the emergency managment sector and the community
what are the bojectives of sherp?
to reduce preventable dealth, perminate disability
maxamise health outcomes by providing timley and safe treatment
to provide timley talord and relevant warnings to the communits
and to provide clarity on roles and responsibilities, esclation of communicttion to enable and effective and effeicent emergency ehalth response.
what is the scope of sherp?
planning and preparenses for response in emergencies
public information and warning process
command, cordiantion and control arrangments at the state, reginal and incident teirs
control arragments with the DHHS
