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Other Resources for Hospitals/Poison Centers
- Procedures
- Surge Capacity
- Preparations and Plans
- Triage
- Hospital Incident Command System
- Poison Centers
Procedures
- Best Practices for Hospital-based First Receivers of Victims from Mass Casualty Incidents Involving Release of Hazardous Substances (OSHA)
- Patient Decontamination: Recommendations for Hospitals (PDF - 124 K) (The Hospital and Healthcare System Disaster Interest Group and the California Emergency Medical Services Authority, July 2005, EMSA #233, Radiological Contamination, pages 11-16)
Surge Capacity
- Medical Surge Capacity and Capability: The Healthcare Coalition in Emergency Response and Recovery (PDF - 2.10 MB) (HHS/ASPR, May 2009)
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness - Surge Capacity (HHS/AHRQ)
- Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: The Essentials (HHS/AHRQ, September 2009)
- Pediatric Hospital Surge Capacity in Public Health Emergencies (HHS/AHRQ, January 2009)
- AHRQ Hospital Surge Model (HHS/AHRQ, September 2008)
- Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide (HHS/AHRQ, February 2007)
- Predicting Health Care Use Resulting From Terrorism: Tools To Aid State Planning: Summary (HHS/AHRQ, January 2005)
- Training of Hospital Staff to Respond to a Mass Casualty Incident (AHRQ, Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 95, April 2004)
- In a Moment's Notice: Surge Capacity in Terrorist Bombings (HHS/CDC)
- Emergency Preparedness - States Are Planning for Medical Surge, but Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources (PDF - 1.06 MB) (GAO, June 2008)
- Hick JL, Barbera JA, Kelen GD. Refining surge capacity: conventional, contingency, and crisis capacity. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2009 Jun;3(2 Suppl):S59-67. [PubMed Citation]
- Medical Surge Capacity, Workshop Summary, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2010).
- Bayram JD, Zuabi S, Subbarao I. Disaster metrics: quantitative benchmarking of hospital surge capacity in trauma-related multiple casualty events. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2011 Jun;5(2):117-24. [PubMed Citation]
Preparations and Plans
- Proceedings for the National Symposium on Hospital Disaster Readiness (American Hospital Association, February 2002)
- Training of Hospital Staff to Respond to a Mass Casualty Incident (PDF - 511 KB) (Evidence report/technical assessment number 95, AHRQ Publication No. 04-E015-2, July 2004)
- Patient Decontamination: Recommendations for Hospitals (PDF - 124 K) (The Hospital and Healthcare System Disaster Interest Group and the California Emergency Medical Services Authority, July 2005, EMSA #233, Chemical Contamination, pages 5-10)
- Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Events: Questionnaire for Health Care Facilities (HHS/AHRQ, 2007)
- Burda AM, Sigg T. Pharmacy preparedness for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2001 Dec 1:58(23):2274-84. [PubMed Citation]
- Macintyre AG, Christopher GW, Eitzen E Jr, Gum R, Weir S, DeAtley C, Tonat K, Barbera JA. Weapons of mass destruction events with contaminated casualties: effective planning for health care facilities. JAMA. 2000 Jan 12;283(2):242-9. [PubMed Citation]
Triage
- Triage of Chemical Casualties, Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Chapter 14 (PDF - 110 KB) (U.S. Army, 1997)
Hospital Incident Command System
- Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) (California Emergency Medical Services Authority)
- National Incident Management System (NIMS) (DHS/FEMA)
Poison Centers
- Martin-Gill C, Baer AB, Holstege CP, Eldridge DL, Pines JM, Kirk MA. Poison centers as information resources for volunteer EMS in a suspected chemical exposure. J Emerg Med. 2007 May;32(4):397-403. [PubMed Citation]
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