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Proper Preparation for Mass Casualty Incidents

Northwestern EM Blog

However, the ability of a hospital to handle a mass casualty incident (MCI) requires a completely different approach and, most importantly, adequate triage and pre-planning. Other things listed on tags can be a patient’s name, bar code, MRN or other tracking criteria. Proper Preparation for Mass Casualty Incidents.

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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

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Our nurse did not study Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System for Action Units to code “fear” in the patient’s face. Examples would be as below: The “walking wounded” triage heuristic in mass casualty incidents—patient able to walk to you can be initially triaged as “green” or “minimal”. 1999;21(10):974.