Fire, EMS, EMT and Law Enforcement program as well as
hospital personnel: Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists,
hospital administrators and emergency managers.
Operational Response to Mass Casualties (The ORMAC course)
Learning about terror and being determined to prevent
it is a supremely important goal. However, without a sound,
coordinated and well-drilled approach to an incident of Mass
Casualties, we will never be able to confront acts of terror
or natural disasters. This highly acclaimed program, given
by one of the world's experts on MCI's, uses the Israeli
approach in a US context to effect a real change in your
community.
The mass casualty incident is an organizational challenge
for Firemen, Law enforcement, EMT's EMS who are as important
in saving lives as doctors and nurses are in an MCI. The
presenter shows why an MCI is less about medical response
and more about organizational response - the very
organization you need in the field to make a difference.
The course can easily be customized for hospital staff or
for medical personnel and deal with specific aspects of
treating MCI patients. The program is given over one or
two days and has been designed to do nothing less than get
your community ready.
Using principles learned as Medical Commander for some of
the worst MCI's in Israel and all over the world, Associate
Professor, Dr. Mauricio Lynn, is a trauma surgeon and the
head of Mass Casualty Preparedness and Response at
University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Medical Center.
Dr. Lynn presents an exciting and vital view of the Israeli
approach to Mass Casualties. His insider knowledge of how
US communities work puts this program in the ideal US
context. Many of the lessons learned from the Israeli
experience were used to better prepare Jackson Memorial
Hospital to respond to MCI's after September 11th.
Having been on the scene of some of the world's worst
tragedies (Earthquake in Turkey, US Embassy bombings,
Airplane crashes and more) Dr.Lynn understands MCI's and
gives participants the benefit of years of experience as
an Israel Defenses Forces Lt. Colonel (ret.) and Flight
Surgeon for the Israeli Air Force.
Program
Principles for Management of Mass Casualty Incidents:
- Adapting the Israeli approach to the American medical response
- Welcome, course overview and objectives
- Definition and characteristics of mass casualty incidents
- Community Preparedness and experience from Disaster and Mass casualty incident preparedness
- Lessons learned from deployment to remote disaster areas
- Conventional Mass Casualty incidents
- Blast Injuries
- Medical management of conventional injuries
- Hospital triage: site organization and principles
- Chemical / Toxicological mass casualties
- Epidemiology - What to expect
- Decontamination for chemical/toxicological events: in the field or at the hospital
Principles of triage and decontamination for chemical/toxicological mass casualties
- Management of common chemical/toxicological agents
- Decontamination for Chemical warfare - Video
- Biological events
- Epidemiology - What to expect
- Preparing the hospital for biological incidents
- "Bug Hospitals"
- Radiation/Nuclear events
- Epidemiology - What to expect
- Field management
- Preparing the hospital for radiation/nuclear events
- Hospital and Community Preparedness
- The Ten Commandments for Sudden mass casualties
- Organization of drills
- Summary of course
