Terms From Chapter 41
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| Multiple Casualty Incident | Also known as a Mass Casualty Incident, an MCI is any event that places excessive demands on personnel and equipment. Usually involves Three or more patients.
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| Incident Commander | The individual who commands the aspects of the incident.
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| Incident Command System | A concept that has become standard for on-scene management of disasters and MCI's
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| National Incident Management System | Provides a consistent approach to managing disasters by all responders, Local, state and federal.
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| Primary Triage | Occurs immediately after the first EMS unit arrives.
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| Secondary Triage | Patients are reevaluated here and, if necessary re-categorized.
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| Staging Unit | Where Ambulances, helicopters and additional equipment are held until assigned to a task.
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| Transport Unit | Where patients are loaded and transported by ambulances or helicopters.
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| Treatment Unit | Where less serious patients are treated before transport.
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| Triage | The system used for determining the order patients will be treated.
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| Triage Unit | Sorts patients by level of Criticality, and assigns priorities for transport and care.
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