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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. It is well known that most hospitals in large population centers already operate at or near full capacity [4]. EPM , 5 Apr. Institute of Medicine.

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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. 4 However, emergency physicians rely on gestalt to predict outcomes well. Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Kwong K, Wells GA, et al. The “bundling” heuristic—if I send a troponin, then an ECG is needed.