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Here in our county (that includes Tampa), we have an annual mass casualty drill. The larger hospitals actually get mock patients (high school students, some in
by ja27 9y ago
Here in our county (that includes Tampa), we have an annual mass casualty drill. The larger hospitals actually get mock patients (high school students, some in makeup) transported and practice triage. Every capable facility in the county, even little surgical centers in strip malls, practice communicating with emergency dispatch and "tabletop" how they would handle trauma patient overflow. Fire rescue practices coordinating patient transport to send more minor cases to the more remote facilities. They rotate where they actually do the drill so they get experience working in the different sports arenas, airport, etc.
- bbarn 9y agoWhen I was in the military, between boot camp and going to our first school, we were en masse "volunteered" to be patients in a mass casualty drill at a hospital in Chicago. I'm not sure if it was really worth the trouble. Most of the triage staff rolled their eyes and looked annoyed when we showed up. It was a lot of effort - probably 20 busses full of 19-25 year olds staged in McCormick place all day, trained, made up to look wounded - I can't imagine what it cost to put on, and it seemed to only piss off the staff.
- arthur_pryor 9y agocould've still been helpful training, even if they didn't want to be doing it.