EM Cases · Disaster and mass casualty
Train derailment MCI — triage and command station
Resus/systems station testing START/SALT, ICS and population ethics.
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Target exams
ACEMFRCEMABEMFRCPCCCFPEMEBEEM
Prompt
Notification of 30 casualties; walking wounded filling the waiting room; critically injured still en route.
Station brief
Format. Systems/resus leadership station, 11 minutes. You are the ED consultant on the floor when Code Disaster is declared.
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