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CBRNE and HAZMAT: Be Prepared!

CBRNE and HAZMAT: Be Prepared!

by Patrick Fisk | Jan 19, 2023 | Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Resuscitation

This post seeks to provide some insights and discussion around CBRNE events (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive). We want to review procedures within a mass casualty CBRNE event, principles related to decontamination, PEE, and review the...
Is this the Era of Pandemics?

Is this the Era of Pandemics?

by Mark McKinney | Aug 11, 2022 | Commentary, COVID-19, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally disruptive event of a generation. But is COVID a once in a lifetime event, or just another in a long line of infectious threats? Human history has been marked by new and re-emerging illnesses often on a global scale....
Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

Code Orange: Lessons Learned from the Westboro Bus Collision

by Harrison Carmichael, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Jun 6, 2019 | 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...
Mass Gathering Medicine: The New Frontier

Mass Gathering Medicine: The New Frontier

by Jillian Coleby, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Feb 28, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, Mass Casualty / Disaster, Pre-Hospital

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...
EMS Bootcamp – An introduction to pre-hospital medicine

EMS Bootcamp – An introduction to pre-hospital medicine

by Richard Hoang | Nov 22, 2018 | 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...
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