EM · Disaster preparedness and hospital incident command

Disaster preparedness — hospital incident command, surge capacity, MCI triage, decontamination and the PICE classification

Also known as Hospital Incident Command System · HICS · Mass casualty incident preparedness · Surge capacity · SALT triage · START triage · PICE nomenclature · CBRNE preparedness · Crisis standards of care

Disaster preparedness in the emergency department — the systems and planning layer the consultant is accountable for, distinct from the bedside MCI response: the PICE nomenclature that classifies the event, the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) that commands the response, the surge continuum from conventional to contingency to crisis and the crisis standards of care it invokes, the SALT and START mass-casualty triage tools and the shift to a population standard of care, the decontamination procedure and PPE for the CBRNE event, the specific antidotes with their doses, and the planning of mutual aid, redundant communication and staged evacuation. ACEM-primary, globally tagged.