Mass casualty incident
Pre-hospital
ICS
- Establish Incident Commander (IC)
- Request additional appropriate resources
- Additional ALS/BLS
- Fire resources (HAZMAT, heavy rescue, ect.)
- Medevac
- Establish landing zone
- Establish staging areas for resources
- No more than 8 people per supervisor
- 3-5 preferred
Differential Diagnosis
Mass casualty incident
- Radiation exposure (disaster)
- Dirty bomb
- Bioterrorism
- Chemical weapons
- Mass shooting
- Natural Disaster (e.g. Hurricane, Earthquake, Tornado, Tsunami, etc)
- Unintentional large-scale incident (e.g. building collapse, train derailment, etc)
- Major pandemic
- Explosions