EM Cases · Disaster preparedness
Hospital preparedness drill — HICS and surge continuum
Systems station on HICS, surge capacity and decontamination planning.
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Target exams
ACEMFRCEMABEM
Prompt
You are ED director reviewing readiness before a declared industrial CBRNE exercise.
Stem
All persons, presentations and observations in this station are fictional and invented for teaching assessment; they do not describe a real person.
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