Who Wants to Be the Incident Commander?

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• Nathan Timm

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This 44-minute presentation discusses the scope of disaster management, critical areas of disaster incident command, communication strategies, patient care areas that need attention, and what is necessary to keep a facility running. It covers hazard vulnerability analysis and the need to make children the highest priority.

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Hazards: CBRNE; Everyday Emergency; Infectious Disease; Infrastructure Failure; Natural Disasters; Severe Weather; Trauma; Violence

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Emergency Managers; EMS Clinicians; Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stages: Mitigation; Response; Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Disaster Planning; Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; Emergency Service, Hospital; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Disaster Medicine; Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine

Institutions: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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