EMT Lesson Plans

Chapter 38: Mass Casualty Incidents

National EMS Education Standard Competencies

EMS Operations Knowledge of operational roles and responsibilities to ensure patient, public, and personnel safety.

Multiple Casualty Incidents*

 Triage principles (pp 1394–1400)  Resource management (p 1388)  Triage (pp 1396–1400)  Performing (pp 1396–1399)  Retriage (p 1396)  Destination decisions (pp 1399–1400)  Posttraumatic and cumulative stress (p 1394)

*This text uses the term mass-casualty incident.

Knowledge Objectives 1. Describe the specific conditions that would define a situation as a mass-casualty incident (MCI) and give some examples. (pp 1394–1396) 2. Describe what occurs during primary and secondary triage, how the four triage categories are assigned to patients on the scene, and how destination decisions regarding triaged patients are made. (pp 1396–1400) 3. Describe how the START and JumpSTART triage methods are performed. (pp 1398–1399) 4. Explain how a disaster differs from a mass-casualty incident and describe the role of the EMT during a disaster operation. (p 1400)