109: You can’t save them all: Dealing with mass casualty incidents
Tactical Tangents
English - March 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Government debrief discussion fire interview publicsafety storytelling afteractionreview armedforces ems firefighter Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The medical treatment for trauma patients doesn’t change just because there are a lot of them. Managing large scenes is fundamentally a logistics problem and requires leadership, teamwork, and communication. We discuss ways you can learn to deal with triage, incident command, and scene management that doesn’t involve fancy medicine or bigger kits.
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