| Mass Casualty Ambulances |
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| Medical Emergency |
| After disasters with large numbers of injured victims, the immediate ability of government and allied stakeholders to react in an efficient way with an appropriate amount of rescue forces determines the survival and long-term outcome of the patients. The special challenge in those disastrous events is to overcome the natural imbalance of available resources and victims seeking help. In addition, the rescue process presents a tremendous logistic problem; treating and transporting numerous patients to admitting hospitals, despite the usual collapse of traffic around a disaster area. |
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| Mass Casualty Ambulances | State-of-the-art solutions from Morrow Suss |
| The Mass Casualty Ambulance Bus presents a unique solution to employ a fully equipped mobile clinic with intensive care units and an operating theatre. It makes optimal use of the human resources of Emergency Medical Services and ambulance vehicle capacities. |
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| Deployment Scenarios for Ambulance Bus |
• Disaster Response Unit
• Mass Casualty Transport & Treatment Unit
• Intensive Care Patient Transport Vehicle
• Mobile Operating Theater
• Hospital Evacuation Vehicle
• Emergency Capacity for Hospital ICU
• Isolation / Quarantine Ward
• Mobile Hospital / ER |
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| Mass Casualty Capacities |
• For mass casualty treatment and transportation of medium and slightly injured patients
• In combination with inflatable tents and additional equipment, a rapid deployable hospital
can be installed to increase the number of patients |
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| Mobile Medical Centers for Mass Gatherings |
Effective emergency and trauma care systems – from on-the-spot first aid to operating theatre trauma surgery – are key factors to health care facilities’ success in preventing avoidable mortality and morbidity during mass casualty incidents. Building up both their everyday capacity and their ability to cope with surge must therefore be a priority.
During large scale events, the number of potential victims raises tremendously. At the same time a large number of people create new risks like panic reactions, stampedes or terrorist attacks.
Increasing the treatment facilities during such events by using mobile solutions reduces additional risks for victims caused by a lack of treatment facilities or transportation problems. Existing health care facilities with benefit of additional resources can focus on their in-house work. |
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| Cost –Benefit |
| Costs can be reduced by using mobile solutions instead of rising treatment facilities in permanent health care facilities that will not be used after the event. Mobile solutions can be easily integrated in existing disaster response units or used as EMS response vehicles for larger incidents. |
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| Features : |
• Mobile ICU with an Operating Theater
• Medical Equipment
• Central Oxygen Supply System
• Technical Equipment |
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| Definition - Mass Casualty Management System |
| A coherent and interrelated set of established procedures, policies, and plans that contribute to the shared objectives of optimizing the baseline capacity to deal with patient populations expected in a mass casualty incident, and efficiently increasing this capacity during the response to a mass casualty incident. |
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| Mass Casualty Management Systems and Solutions |
In addition to special ambulance solutions - Morrow Suss provides Mass Casualty Management Systems and solutions as below :
• Each health care facility must plan to build its own capacity to deal with mass casualty incidents, based on a detailed plan of training and continuing education for all staff. This plan must be based on an initial analysis of existing capacity, and adequately funded to ensure its sustainability over time. While identified gaps in knowledge may need to be filled with help from outside trainers. This should also help ensure that the training will correspond to the needs and condition in the facility. Although existing training materials (manuals and audio-visual materials) can be purchased or borrowed, and should be consulted in the planning process, whenever possible training materials specific to the facility should be developed, preferably with the participation of key staff.
• In addition to enhancing skills in clinical management, training should aim to maintain the integrity of the organizational structure against the panic that may ensue when an incident first arises. As with preparedness at other levels, drills and exercises are the most effective means of capacity building, and should be built into the plan. Finally, training should be evaluated at regular intervals, both to ensure its quality and to adjust the curriculum as necessary. |
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