The ED Response to a No Notice Mass Casualty Event course focuses on educating Emergency Department staff how to triage
and treat an overwhelming number of patients in a short period of time. During this 4-hour course students are educated using a
combination of 2 lecture hours, followed by 2 hours of skill stations.
The classroom material presented is comprised of the following topics:
✓ The history of active violence situations as it pertains to hospital staff.
• Teaches the student what brought us to where we are today.
✓ Predicting locations of unintended patient access to your hospital.
• During an event patients will be delivered to any entrance of your hospital. Staff members need to understand
this and prepare for something outside of their comfort zone.
✓ Explaining and applying how to rapidly assess and treat life threatening injuries.
• MARCH Assessment – A fast paced assessment focusing on treating life threats from penetrating trauma.
• Tourniquet application – Providing the student with more experience applying these life saving devices.
• Wound Packing – Students will have a greater understanding of anatomical sites and why this skill is so
important.
• Chest Seals – How to quickly seal off penetrating trauma to the chest cavity.
• Needle Decompression – Educating students how to relieve a life-threatening tension pneumothorax.
✓ Identifying triage and transport methods of the injured.
• Moving a large number of patients using unconventional means.
✓ Discussing situational awareness and scene security of employees and patients.
• Educating the student how to break complacency and become more
situationally aware.
The 2-hour practical exercises are comprised of the following skills stations;
✓ MARCH Assessment
✓ Tourniquets and Wound Packing
✓ Needle Decompression and Chest Seals
✓ Triage and Transport
Details |
Date(s) |
Tue. Nov 05, 2024 0800-1200
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Location |
Emory Decatur Hospital 2701 North Decatur Road, Decatur GA 30033
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Building/Room |
EDH Keeton Auditorium |
Handicap Accessibility |
No
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WiFi Access |
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Offered By |
HPP Region D |
Primary Instructor |
Guck, Justin |
Course Length |
4 Hours |
Course Hours |
4 |
CEUs |
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Award Credentials |
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Prerequisites |
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Equivalent Prerequisites |
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Maximum Participants |
25 |
# Open Seats |
14 |
# on Wait List |
0 |