1 / 5

Disaster Medical Response: Minor Treatment Unit Best Practices

Learn how to effectively manage minor non-life threatening conditions during disasters. Explore essential actions, care provider roles, limitations, and preparation strategies. Enhance your readiness through training and active participation in drills. Improve your skill sets and prepare for various scenarios to maximize your response capabilities.

mya
Download Presentation

Disaster Medical Response: Minor Treatment Unit Best Practices

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ICS and the Response Areas HARRT 2004

  2. Minor Treatment Unit • Purpose • To provide for the necessary DISASTER MEDICAL evaluation, stabilization, and disposition of victims who have conditions which ARE NOT LIFE or LIMB-THREATENING

  3. Minor Treatment Unit • Actions • Identification of Minor Treatment Unit Leader • Assignment of roles and responsibilities • Increased responsibilities of care providers • Disaster Medical Care • A, B, C’s • Pain management • Greatest limitations on resource utilization

  4. What you can do to be better prepared? • Know what your role is in a the disaster plan • Participate in your facility’s drills • Volunteer to participate in community drills • Actively seek HEICS training • Consider how you would respond in a variety of scenarios

  5. What can you do to be better prepared? • Assist with disaster and large scale event planning in your department and in your institution • Practice HEICS • What skill sets do you offer? Have you made these skill sets known? • Maximize these skill sets • Seek additional skills

More Related