The first time you are faced with a mass-casualty incident

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The first time you are faced with a mass-casualty incident

Jo Scott-Jones

Jo Scott-Jones

FIRST TIME
Car crash
Get everyone who is mobile to move to a separate, but defined area

Being first on the scene of a mass-casualty accident requires you to operate in a way that may go against your instincts and engrained practice as a doctor or nurse

What’s your worst nightmare? I have a recur­ring one of being chased around a maze by a massive steel ball – I wake just as it’s about to crush me. Wh, Triage algorithm