MASS CASUALTY OPERATIONS

Part one of this three-hour session covers:

Mass casualty command structure
Detailed job descriptions
Scene layout
Mutual aid considerations
Dispatch pre-planning
Staging
Hospital communications

Part two covers basic MCI response equipment, including:

MCI bag
Triage bag
Trauma treatment bag
Command vests and status boards
Treatment area tarps
Patient forms

For more information, click here for a PDF of "Building MCI Capability"article from April 2003 JEMS Magazine (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software, a free downloadable software available at www.adobe.com/downloads/).