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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969298003321

Autore

Hodgetts T. J

Titolo

Major incident management system : the scene aide memoire for major incident medical management and support / / Timothy J. Hodgetts, Crispin Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : BMJ Books, 2003

ISBN

9781118713488

1118713486

9781118713471

1118713478

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterCrispin

Disciplina

616/.025

Soggetti

Disaster medicine

Emergency transportation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 2002"--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Symbol key and terminology; First actions; METHANE report; Command; Safety; Communications; Triage; Treatment; Transport; Action Cards (ambulance personnel); Action Cards (medical personnel)

Sommario/riassunto

This highly practical aid to management of major incidents is the refined and improved new edition of Prehospital Emergency Management Master. Concentrating on the essential elements in treatment and transport of the wounded in a major incident this new system provides easily assimilable information on:symbols and terminology; first actions; METHANE report; command; safety; communications; triage; treament; transportthe system is produced on waterproof pages, and includes 12 separate action cards for use by auxiliary helpers, and a log for recording the facts. The