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WSES Handbook of Mass Casualties Incidents Management

Part of the Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma Book Series

Editors: Kluger, Yoram; Coccolini, Federico; Catena, Fausto; Ansaloni, Luca

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92345-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-92344-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 12, 2019

1 - 10 of 18 Chapters

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Mass Casualty Incident: Definitions and Current Reality

Lomaglio, Laura; Ansaloni, Luca; Catena, Fausto; Sartelli, Massimo; Coccolini, Federico

Pages: 1 –10

[A Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) is an overwhelming event, which generates more patients at a time than locally available resources can manage using routine procedures. It requires exceptional emergency arrangements and additional or extraordinary assistance. MCIs can occur as a consequence of a...
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Managing a Medical Surge

Kearns, Randy D.

Pages: 11 –29

[This chapter briefly discusses the background of surge capacity and explores where the science is today. There are three key principles that are the focus of this chapter; rapidly triage and moving patients to where they can best be managed for their specific injuries, moving equipment and...
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Common Wounding Mechanisms and Injury Patterns

Bala, Miklosh; Kashuk, Jeffry

Pages: 31 –46

[Terrorist attacks, as a mechanism of injury, continue to be a worldwide challenge to trauma centers, resulting in tremendous and varied injury patterns often in large numbers of victims. While terrorists may use many different approaches to inflict injury, explosive devices, often homemade, have...
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The Emergency Room During Mass Casualty Incidents

Bahouth, Hany

Pages: 47 –59

[Mass casualty incidents (MCIs), man-made or natural, have increased in recent years. In the 1970s, man-made events accounted for 16.5% of disasters and 4.3% of related deaths; in the 1990s, the number rose to 42.0% and 9.5%, respectively (not including “complex emergencies” involving armed...
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Triage and Clinical Evaluation in MCI

Klein, Yoram

Pages: 61 –65

[Clinical evaluation is one of the fundamental elements of medicine. There are several factors in mass casualty incident (MCI) that make clinical evaluation more challenging. In the first phase of the management of the patient in MCI, all clinical evaluations should be done in a triage mode. That...
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Providing Information During Mass Casualty Incidents: Information Center, Family-Centered Care and Media Coverage

Gagin, Roni; HaGani, Neta; Ratner, David

Pages: 67 –77

[Mass casualty incidences (MCIs) expose the general public to injuries, death, and feelings of helplessness and lack of control. During MCIs, medical centers operate an information center that provides the public information regarding the whereabouts of their loved ones who are missing. Medical...
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Nurses and Nursing in Mass Casualties Incidents

Rozenblit, Ben

Pages: 79 –89

[Mass Casualties Incidents are, and will continue to be, a huge challenge to every hospital and health care system.]
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Auxiliary Clinical Diagnostics

Bala, Miklosh; Catena, Fausto

Pages: 91 –99

[In disasters and conventional mass casualty incidents (MCI), a large number of trauma patients need to be screened for traumatic injuries and treated within a relatively short time span in restricted resource circumstances. Guidelines and protocols have been developed to enhance decision-making...
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Conventional and Interventional Radiology in Mass Casualty Incidents

Ofer, Amos; Leiderman, Maxim; Beck-Razi, Nira

Pages: 101 –115

[Dealing with MCI has become an increasingly important aspect of modern medicine due to the increase in terrorist and other mass casualty acts. Thus, almost every hospital is expected to be prepared for such incidents [1] which are usually caused by motor vehicle accidents, explosions, shootings,...
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Operating Room (OR) Setup, Resource, and Demands

Fugazzola, Paola; Tomasoni, Matteo; Kluger, Yoram; Ansaloni, Luca; Coccolini, Federico

Pages: 117 –120

[During mass casualty events, a larger portion of victims need emergency surgery compared with victims of conventional trauma. For example, bombing resulted in significantly enhanced use of intensive care, prolonged hospital stay, more surgical interventions, and increased hospital mortality...

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