Major incident medical management and support : the practical approach to pre-hospital incident command - Wieteska, Susan; Mackway-Jones, Kevin; Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England) (Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
The structured approach to major incidents -- Health service structure and roles -- Emergency service organisation and roles -- Support service organisation and roles -- Planning -- Personal equipment -- Medical equipment -- Training -- Command and control -- Health service scene layout -- Safety at the scene -- Communications -- Triage -- Treatment -- Transport -- Hazardous materials (HAZMAT), chemical, biological, radiological & nuclear (CBRN) -- Incidents involving large numbers of children -- Management of a major incident with multiple burn casualties -- Mass gatherings -- Natural disasters -- Uncompensated major incidents.
Revised edition of: Major incident medical management and support / Advanced Life Support Goup ; by Simon Carley, Kevin Mackway-Jones. 2nd ed. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Keywords: Disaster medicine; Hospitals; Disaster hospitals; Disaster Planning -- organization & administration; Emergency Medical Services -- organization & administration; Emergency Medicine -- methods; Disaster hospitals; Disaster medicine; Hospitals; Electronic books