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Triage for Optimal Disaster Response
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By
Jan Glarum, Emergency Response Consultant, Alcoa, TN, USA
Don Birou
Ed Cetaruk
Description
A hospital can continue to function during a disaster or terrorist attack if a Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT) protects the
facility by the establishing and staffing of an Emergency Treatment Area. For the first time, here is an entire text dedicated to
developing a free-standing operational team capable of protecting the healthcare center and its employees. This unit, if properly
designed, is mobile enough to operate at a remote site, offering services to less prepared facilities. Not only does the hospital
gain operational capacity by creating such a team, it also goes a long way toward meeting JCAHO's accreditation requirements.
This
book covers information that in an emergency is crucial to emergency medical service personnel and hospital staff in the emergency department,
nursing, clinician, and other technical or support positions. It is also required reading for community public safety personnel and those
charged with community-level planning, allowing them to better understand hospital capabilities and needs in times of disaster.
Audience
Emergency medicine professionals and first responders; hospital security staff; community-level disaster planners. Researchers in public health and disaster management.
Contents
Chapter 1: Command and Control
Chapter 2: Assessment of Likely Mass Casualty Events and Potential Hospital Impact
Planning
Chapter 3: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Chapter 4: Emergency Treatment Area
Chapter 5: Triage Principles
Chapter 6: Decontamination
Chapter 7: Special Circumstances
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Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: DEC-2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-85617-701-6
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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