Disaster Triage
Simple triage and rapid transport is used by many systems and can be adapted to use in pediatrics.
What is the START Triage System?
True/False: When it comes to disaster medicine, kids are basically small adults.
What is FALSE?
Kids are NOT small adults. They vary in anatomy, physiology, behavioral, etc. aspects.
Define the Acronym: MCI
What is Mass Casualty Incident?
The # of days worth of non-perishable food you should have at home.
What is 3?
Acronym: HPP
Hospital Preparedness Program
States are divided into regional healthcare planning groups (coalitions) under the HPP
The “Walking Well” or “Walking Wounded” represent this disaster triage color.
What is green?
True/False: In active shooter drills, kids should be told to hide under their desk.
What is False?
This Simple triage and rapid treatment is a triage method used by first responders to quickly classify victims during a mass casualty incident based on the severity of their injury.
What is START Triage?
The # of gallons of water/day you should have for each person for 3 days
What is 1 gallon/person/day?
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians have these types of involvement generally.
What is State and Federal?
True/False: A Disaster Triage team must consist of a Doctor and a Nurse
What is false?
True/False: Respirators are not made to fit children.
What is True?
After Inspire, a magazine produced by Al-Qaeda, published the 2010 article “The Ultimate Mowing Machine” an increase in this type of attack was and is being seen
What is driving a truck into a large crowd?
With family preparedness, this type of plan establishes an out-of-state point of contact and meeting locations both in your neighborhood and town
What is a Communications Plan?
True/False: Hospitals do not need Departmental Emergency Plans if there are solid Hospital wide Emergency plans in place
What is false?
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With the START Triage system, this respiratory rate keeps a person “yellow” vs “red”
What is a RR < 30?
True/False: Mental stress from a disaster can be harder on children
What is True?
Mental stress from a disaster can be harder on children because they: understand less about the situation, feel less able to control events, and have less experience coping with difficult situations.
Continual assessment of a suspected terrorism scene is necessary because of this
What is the potential for a second device?
Monitor more than 35 different types of severe weather and emergency alerts on this organization’s free app
What is the Red Cross
This state led program works in communities around the country to improve the quality of pediatric medical care, with the goal of reducing childhood morbidity and mortality that results from severe illness, trauma or disaters.
What is EMSC?
This system includes life-saving interventions during the initial assessment.
What is SALT?
The percent of the population that children make up.
20 - 25% depending on the source
The largest active shooter mass casualty incident in the United States.
What is the Las Vegas/Mandalay Bay shooting?
(58 killed, 500+ injured)
This website houses a multitude of resources for emergency household and family planning.
What is Ready.gov?
EMS agencies are recommended to have this per the Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Program.
Pediatric Disaster Plan
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