mass casualty incident
1Mass-casualty incident — A mass casualty incident (often shortened to MCI and sometimes called a multiple casualty incident or multiple casualty situation) is any incident in which emergency medical services resources, such as personnel and equipment, are overwhelmed by… …
2Mass fatality incident — (abbreviated MFI) is an emergency management term used to identify an incident involving more dead bodies and/or body parts than can be located, identified, and processed for final disposition by available response resources. Although it is a… …
3mass casualty — Any large number of casualties produced in a relatively short period of time, usually as the result of a single incident such as a military aircraft accident, hurricane, flood, earthquake, or armed attack that exceeds local logistic support… …
4Mass psychogenic illness — (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness,[1] is “the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby… …
5Triage — This article is about the concept of triage as it occurs in medical emergencies and disasters. For other uses, see Triage (disambiguation). Typical triage tag, with tear off sections for decontamination and patient tracking …
6Disaster Preparedness and Response Team — The Disaster Preparedness and Response Team is a non governmental organisation (NGO) established in Pakistan in November 2005 following the Pakistan Quake. However it was not registered as a voluntary agency until 2006[1]. It is composed of… …
7Glossary of firefighting — Note: This list does not include firefighting equipment, i.e., tools and apparatus used by firefighters. Please refer to Glossary of firefighting equipment for such terms. : Note: This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by… …
8Hospital emergency codes — For the computer virus, see Code Red (computer worm). For the Portall Album, see Code Black (album). For the Iceahouse Album, see Code Blue (album). For the practice of corruption among U.S. law enforcement, see Blue Code of Silence. Hospital… …
9Ambulance bus — An ambulance bus is a mass casualty, mass evacuation, mass decontamination, or mass quarantine vehicle for transporting large numbers of patients from a mass casualty incident. A typical ambulance bus transports 20 to 24 patients on… …
102008 Chatsworth train collision — This article is about the 2008 Metrolink train collision in Los Angeles. For the 1887 train collision at Great Chatsworth, Illinois, see 1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck. Chatsworth train collision Resc …
