Incident Management
A system implemented to manage disasters and mass-casualty incidents in which section chiefs, including finance/administration, logistics, operations, and planning report to the incident commander.
What is the incident command system?
A command system used in larger incidents in which there is a multiagency response or multiple jurisdictions are involved
What is a unified command system?
In incident command, the position that carries out the orders of the commander to help resolve the incident.
What is the operations section?
In incident command, the person who keeps the public informed and relates any information to the media.
Who is the public information officer (PIO)?
An incident that is not yet contained; there may be patients to be located and the situation may be ongoing, producing more patients.
What is an open incident?
In incident command, the person in charge of the transportation sector in an MCI who assigns patients from the treatment area to waiting ambulances in the transportation area.
Who is the transportation supervisor?
A type of patient sorting used in the treatment area that involves re-triage of patients.
What is secondary triage?
An incident in which hazardous material is no longer properly contained and isolated.
What is a hazardous materials incident?
Any vessel or receptacle that holds material, including storage vessels, pipelines, and packaging.
What is a container?
An agreement between neighboring EMS systems to respond to mass-casualty incidents or disasters in each other's region when local resources are insufficient to handle the response.
What is mutual aid response?
The position that oversees the incident; establishes the objectives and priorities, and develops a response plan.
What is command?
In incident command, the position in an incident responsible for accounting of all expenditures.
What is finance/administration?
An area designated by the incident commander in which public information officers from multiple agencies distribute information about the incident.
What is the joint information center(JIC)?
This involves the decisions made and basic planning done before an incident occurs.
What is preparedness?
Who is the triage supervisor?
A patient sorting process that stands for Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment and uses a limited assessment of the patient's ability to walk, respiratory status, hemodynamic status, and neurologic status.
What is START triage?
A widespread event that disrupts community resources and functions, in turn threatening public safety, citizens lives, and property.
What is a disaster?
An engineered method to control a spilled or released product if the main containment vessel fails.
What is secondary containment?
When individual units or different organizations make independent and often inefficient decisions about the next appropriate action.
What is freelancing?
The end of the incident command structure when an incident draws to a close.
What is termination of command?
An oral or written plan stating general objectives reflecting the overall strategy for managing an incident.
What is an incident action plan?
In incident command, the person who monitors the scene for conditions or operations that may present a hazard to responders and patients.
Who is the safety officer?
This is often the key problem at an MCI or a disaster.
What is communication?
In incident command, the person appointed to determine the type of equipment and resources needed for a situation involving extrication or special rescue; also called the rescue officer.
Who is the extrication supervisor?
The process of establishing treatment and transportation priorities according to severity of injury and medical need.
What is triage?
Any container other than bulk storage containers, such as drums, bags, compressed gas cylinders, and cryogenic containers.
Any container other than non-bulk storage containers, such as fixed tanks, highway cargo tanks, rail tank cars, totes, and intermodal tanks. These are typically found in manufacturing facilities and are often surrounded by a secondary containment.
What are bulk storage containers?
A department of Homeland Security system designed to enable federal, state, and local governments and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to effectively and efficiently prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
The individual who has overall command of the incident in the field.
Who is the Incident commander?
In incident command, the position that helps procure and stockpile equipment and supplies during an incident.
What is the logistics section?
Besides the incident commander, this officer has the authority to stop an emergency operation whenever a rescuer is in danger.
Who is the safety officer?
What do I have, what resources do I need, and what do I need to do, are all questions you must ask your self during this part of an incident.
What is the scene size-up?
In incident command, the person, usually a physician, who is in charge of and directs EMS providers at the treatment area in a mass-casualty incident.
Who is the treatment supervisor?
A sorting system for pediatric patients younger than 8 years or weighing less than 100 pounds. There is a minor adaptation for infants because they cannot ambulate on their own.
What is Jump START triage?
An area set up by physicians, nurses, and other hospital staff near a major disaster scene where patients can receive further triage and medical care.
What is a casualty collection area?
Shipping and storage vessels that can be either pressurized or nonpressurized.
What are intermodal tanks?
In incident command, the subordinate positions under the commander's direction to which the workload is distributed
The process of directing responders to return to their facilities when work at a disaster or MCI has finished, at least for those particular responders.
What is demobiliztion?
In incident command, the position that ultimately produces a plan to resolve any incident.
What is the planning section?
In incident command, the person who relays information, concerns, and requests among responding agencies.
Who is the liaison officer?
An incident is contained; all casualties are accounted for.
What is a closed incident?
In incident command, the person who locates an area to stage equipment and personnel and tracks unit arrival and deployment from the staging area.
Who is the staging supervisor?
A type of patient sorting used to rapidly categorize patients; the focus is on speed in locating all patients and determining an initial priority as warranted by their conditions.
What is primary triage?
ERG
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
Any substance that is toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and causes injury or death with exposures.
What is a hazardous material?