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H T Christen

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PubMed1999

Terrorism. Part III--Response procedures for terrorist/tactical violence incidents.

A safe and effective response to a terrorist/tactical violence incident involves the following critical factors: Identify and train all potential convergent responders. 2-in/2-out--your partner is your life; have a plan to rescue the rescuers. Orient all responders to LACES. Search your command, staging and treatment areas for a secondary device. Restrict media coverage. Control the scene and relocate/evacuate if necessary. Alert medical receiving facilities early in the event chain to enable them to prepare for a patient onslaught.

Awareness↗
PubMed1999

EMS incident management: emergency medical logistics.

If you had to get x amount of supplies to point A or point B, or both, in 10 minutes, how would you do it? The answer lies in the following steps: 1. Develop a logistics plan. 2. Use emergency management as a partner agency for developing your logistics plan. 3. Implement a push logistics system by determining what supplies/medications and equipment are important. 4. Place mass casualty/disaster caches at key locations for rapid deployment. Have medication/fluid caches available at local hospitals. 5. Develop and implement command caches for key supervisors and managers. 6. Anticipate the logistics requirements of a terrorism/tactical violence event based on a community threat assessment. 7. Educate the public about preparing a BLS family disaster kit. 8. Test logistics capabilities at disaster exercises. 9. Budget for logistics needs. 10. Never underestimate the importance of logistics. When logistics support fails, the EMS system fails.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
PubMed1998

Terrorism. Part 1: Calibrating your risks and response.

Emergency service organizations are "in combat" every day. Yet with the experience and education we have amassed over the years, we remain ill-prepared to deal with the full effects of a terrorist attack. Terrorism has many definitions. For this article we choose this one: Terrorism: The use of violence, threats, intimidation or information manipulation for revenge, politics, support of a cause or the furthering of a criminal enterprise.

Biological Warfare↗