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It seems, from reading about the recent attacks in London and Manchester, that it's assumed for a major situation, that most of the staff will hear about the si
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
It seems, from reading about the recent attacks in London and Manchester, that it's assumed for a major situation, that most of the staff will hear about the situation through other channels, and make their way to the hospital on their own accord.
There's also a very interesting article from Stanford about how they handled their response to the Asiana Airlines crash a few years ago: http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/07/this-is-not-a-test-in-caring-for-airplane-crash-victims-training-and-teamwork-prevailed.html http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/07/this-is-not-a-...
Basically, they paged everyone to come in, and roped in everyone who was in the hospital to help out.
- gist 9y ago"Pagers" (if you mean that literally) aren't used anymore. The difference between pagers and cell phones is that pagers work practically everywhere and cell phones as you know are spotty. That said I think it depends on the crisis and the community size. Not everyone is even watching the news during the day I remember I heard about 911 as a result of someone making a comment on a group that I followed that was almost quite accidental. Part of the problem with any of this is that disasters aren't that frequent so not much thought is given to a host of 'what if's'.