Disaster Triage
Pediatrics
MCI
Home Planning
Levels of Involvement
100

Simple triage and rapid transport is used by many systems and can be adapted to use in pediatrics.

What is the START Triage System?

100

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.

100

Define the Acronym: MCI

What is Mass Casualty Incident?

100

The # of days worth of non-perishable food you should have at home.

What is 3?

100

Acronym: HPP

Hospital Preparedness Program

States are divided into regional healthcare planning groups (coalitions) under the HPP

200

The “Walking Well” or “Walking Wounded” represent this disaster triage color.

What is green?

200

True/False: In active shooter drills, kids should be told to hide under their desk.

What is False?

200

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?

200

The # of gallons of water/day you should have for each person for 3 days

What is 1 gallon/person/day?

200

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians have these types of involvement generally.

What is State and Federal?

300

True/False: A Disaster Triage team must consist of a Doctor and a Nurse

What is false?

300

True/False: Respirators are not made to fit children.

What is True?

300

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?

300

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?

300

True/False: Hospitals do not need Departmental Emergency Plans if there are solid Hospital wide Emergency plans in place

What is false?

Need help reviewing pediatric involvement of your hospital plans? Ask the PPN how we can help!

400

With the START Triage system, this respiratory rate keeps a person “yellow” vs “red”

What is a RR < 30?

400

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.

400

Continual assessment of a suspected terrorism scene is necessary because of this

What is the potential for  a second device?

400

Monitor more than 35 different types of severe weather and emergency alerts on this organization’s free app

What is the Red Cross

400

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?

500

This system includes life-saving interventions during the initial assessment.

What is SALT?

500

The percent of the population that children make up.

20 - 25% depending on the source

500

The largest active shooter mass casualty incident in the United States.

What is the Las Vegas/Mandalay Bay shooting?

(58 killed, 500+ injured)

500

This website houses a multitude of resources for emergency household and family planning.

What is Ready.gov?

500

EMS agencies are recommended to have this per the Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Program.

Pediatric Disaster Plan

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