Associate Professor, Military and Emergency Medicine Uniformed Services University Rockville, Maryland
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Disclosure(s):
Melissa Myers, MD, FAAEM: No financial relationships to disclose
It’s an Emergency Physician's worst nightmare. A mass shooting or a natural disaster near your hospital results in an incoming flood of casualties you can’t possibly care for. How do you triage patients so that you can care for the most people? Are there guidelines or frameworks, best practice that could guide you? Using lessons learned from military experience and doctrine, this lecture will discuss how to triage casualties so that limited resources can care for the largest number of people.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, the learner will be able to describe key principles of mass casualty triage used in military and civilian settings.
After this session, the learner will be able to apply triage strategies that optimize resource allocation during large-scale emergency incidents.
After this session, the learner will be able to explain the ethical principles underlying resource allocation during mass casualty triage.
