In Tampa, we run annual mass casualty drills. One part is a field exercise where fire rescue practice triage and transportation of a large number of patients. T

In Tampa, we run annual mass casualty drills. One part is a field exercise where fire rescue practice triage and transportation of a large number of patients. They usually use high school students, often with makeup for their injuries. I've been at a few of those and it's pretty creepy to see a mock disaster like that at the airport or in a sports arena. They also simultaneously have an exercises with all of the local hospitals and other medical facilities. They all run their disaster plans and practice triage, reporting available surgical beds / trauma units, etc. The bigger hospitals actually handle some of the mock patients from the scene, but even small day surgery facilities take part in at least a paper exercise, since they could be tremendously useful in a real event. Here's a decent news report about last year's drill here: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/hospital-staff-prepares-for-worst-case-scenario-during-republican-national-convention-rnc http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/hospital-staff-...