Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
Mass casualty management
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The case of Belgium<br />
• Threshold for activation of the disaster plan<br />
– 5 seriously injured<br />
– 10 or more injured of unknown severity<br />
– possibility or necessity of people evacuation<br />
• Automatic response of the rescue-centre ‘100’<br />
– 5 ambulances<br />
– 3 medical teams (SMUR = MUG)<br />
– warning of<br />
• Director of medical rescue on duty (=medical incident officer)<br />
• Red-cross<br />
• Provincial Medical Inspector