CRACKCast E190 – Disaster Preparedness

Core questions

 

 

Define a disaster Describe PICE nomenclature List 6  potentially paralytic PICE List 6 critical substrates for hospital operations Describe START triage and SAVE List the 5 functional elements of an incident command system Describe the 4 stages comprehensive emergency management Describe the 5 elements of a hospital disaster response plan List the 8 basic components of a hospital comprehensive disaster response planning process

 

 

Wisecracks:

 

Describe the SALT triage approach Describe TTDAD SAD approach (see EM Cases Episode 100 on disaster medicine) What is “surge capacity”?