Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
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Specificities of a mass emergency<br />
Different from day-to-day practice<br />
Difference of kind and not only of size<br />
Routine emergency<br />
• Well-understood event<br />
• Limited scale<br />
• Easily manageable<br />
• Quickly under control<br />
• Rescuers familiar with<br />
each other<br />
• Well-accepted authority<br />
• Clear-cut roles and<br />
responsibilities<br />
<strong>Mass</strong> emergency<br />
• Enormous problems<br />
• Breakdown of normal<br />
arrangements<br />
• Multiple procedures<br />
• Large number of rescuers<br />
• Unfamiliarity of the agencies<br />
with each other<br />
• Inadequate initiatives<br />
• Conflicting roles and<br />
responsibilities
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