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Blast injuries resulting from explosions have the capacity to cause life-threatening multisystem injuries in multiple victims simultaneously. The biggest potential challenge in managing blast injuries is the creation of large numbers of simultaneous critically ill casualties. Once notified of a possible bombing or explosion, Emergency Physicians should immediately consider activatingRead More →

code orange

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In: Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Quality Improvement, Resuscitation, Trauma

A Code Orange is a hospital-scale response to any event or group of events that results in a patient influx that outstrips available hospital resources. It realigns the way the hospital functions to support the emergency department and rapidly increases the number of staff available to care for patients. ItRead More →

Mass Gathering Medicine

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Mass gathering medicine (MGM) is an exciting niche field of emergency medicine focused on providing emergency medical care at large events. Mass gatherings, as the name implies, are events in which “large numbers of people assemble in public or private spaces to celebrate or participate in musical, sporting, cultural, religious,Read More →

pre-hospital

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In: Mass Casualty / Disaster, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital

As dedicated in-hospital emergency providers, few of us truly understand or get to experience the difficulties and unique challenges facing our pre-hospital colleagues. Beyond the EMS handover and transfer of patient care, we seldom interact with this large and extremely important facet of our medical system. It is easy toRead More →

tactical

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TCCC (Tactical combat casualty care) outlines the priorities of care for casualties in combat applications Nearly 90% of combat fatalities occur before reaching a medical treatment facility Prehospital phase is the focus of efforts to reduce deaths in combat TCCC Working Group includes trauma surgeons, EM physicians, internists, family physicians,Read More →