Week 4 - What dictates how we respond?

Question 1

How is resilince built for emergency mangment of major incidents?

Answer 1

Giving each state government responsibility for their emergency response plans
learning from mistakes
empowering local governments/communities
increasing public education
assisting local planning

Question 2

what laws govern emergency responses?

Answer 2

Emergency managment act 2013

Question 3

What does the SHERP stand for?

Answer 3

State health emergency response plan

Question 4

What is the basic role of the SHERP?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is SERP?

Answer 5

State emergency response plan

- SHERP is a sub plan under SERP

Question 6

What are the aims of SHERP?

Answer 6

Reduce preventable death
reduce permanate diability
improve paitent outocmes- match pt injury level to treatment options in a safe and timley manner

Question 7

What is the purpose of SHERP?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What/who is directed but SHERP?

Answer 8

Community members, Ambulance, Non-emerge, Hospitals, GPs, event planner, medical first aid

Question 9

What are the three Cs under SHERP?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What is the role of ambualnce victoria within sherp?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is the role of a health commander under SHERP?

Answer 11

reports to critical incident manager
responsible for directing operations at site
HC will be a senior ambulance manager

Question 12

What is the tole of the ambulance commander under SHERP?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is the role of the ambulance supervisor?

Answer 13

Report to and take direction from ambulance commader
will be appropitaly expirenced
may not always be neccisary
more than one may be required

Question 14

what is the role of the duty manager?

Answer 14

coordinates inital response CIM and ambulance response

Question 15

what is the role of the reginal CIM?

Answer 15

responsible for regional implemntation of ERP

is and operational member of the regional managment team

Question 16

what is the role of the state CIM

Answer 16

Overall responsibility for ERP

Is and operational memeber of the emergency managment unit

Question 17

What does AIIMS stand for?

Answer 17

Australasia inter-agency incident magment system

Question 18

What is AIIMS?

Answer 18

Incident control systemt (ICS)

Scalable managment tool

Question 19

What is the origin of AIIMS?

Answer 19

developed in mid-eighties from american
recognised needed due to rise in multi-agencie incidents
Need for conistant, universally understood and applied system

Question 20

what does AIIMS provide?

Answer 20

Common managment framework for emergency managment roles to assist in providing effective and effiecnt control of icidents

Question 21

What types of large scale emergenies toes AIIMS provied organised priniciapls for?

Answer 21

• mass casultie incidents
  natural disaters
  industry disaster

Question 22

What are the three key prinicples of AIIMS?

Answer 22

Managment objectives as desired outcomes and implemented maagment plans

Funtional managment- control, planning, operations and logistices

Span of control

Question 23

what does CIM stand for?

Answer 23

Critical incident manager

Question 24

what are the attributes of AIIMS?

Answer 24

Defined functions
uniform termonology
adaptable and scalable approach
defined incident managment structure
clear;y defined roles and responsibilites

Question 25

what is a high threat environment?

Answer 25

incident that involve potential or actual risk of physical harm to responders.

Question 26

what is a paramedics role in a high threat scene?

Answer 26

remain safe
life saving interventions
reduce suffering
transport to definitive care

Question 27

what is a hot zone in a high threat situation?

Answer 27

specalist police resources responding into where there is still an active threat
Activly dangerous environment

Question 28

what is the warm zone in a high threat environment?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

what is the cold zone in a high threat environment?

Answer 29

a more safe zone where the access/egress can be though about, casultiy clearing and loading pints in this zone

Question 30

what does PHEIC stand for?

Answer 30

Public health emergency of international concerns

Question 31

what is the purpose of the International health regulations 2005?

Answer 31

Prevent, protect control; and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease and avoid unneccissary interference with internatinal traffic and trade

Question 32

what is survalience that informs PHEIC?

Answer 32

continuous systamatic collection, analysis and interpretation of data so there can be planning, implemntation and eveluation of public health practice

Question 33

what is the purpose of SHERP?

Answer 33

to describe the intergrated approach and shared responsibilities for health emergency managment between DHHS, ambulance victoria, the emergency managment sector and the community

Question 34

what are the bojectives of sherp?

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

what is the scope of sherp?

Answer 35

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