Emergency departments will have a mass casualty incident agreement which they initiate as soon as they are notified of a Mass Casualty Incident in their community. They will have preparations in place to receive a massive number of casualties, like calling in more staff, pulling extra and spare equipment out of storage, and clearing non-acute patients out of the hospital. Trauma centres have a horde of levels pasturing from starting stage all the way to ending stage. Each level varying in different responsibilities and resources provided. One of the most critical practices in mass casualty incident management is vacating the victims from scene of the incident and transporting them to proper healthcare facilities. Decision on distribution of casualties needs to be taken on pre-developed policies and structured decision support mechanisms. While many studies tried to present models for the distribution of casualties,...
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