CMLP 2.14_English: Serious Injuries and Mass Casualty Events

Natural disasters, industrial and transportation accidents, disease outbreaks, building fires or deliberate hostile human acts such as terror attacks all have the potential to cause mass casualties. Where these occur in less-developed or disaster-struck international locations, complexity can be very significant, as inadequate or overwhelmed local emergency medical services, remoteness of the scene and insecurity compound the challenges of response and management. Mass Casualty Events present a significant challenge to an organization’s fundamental resilience, requiring the activation of the full scope of crisis response personnel and resources, the close coordination of organizational and local incident management teams, accurate and timely passage of information and interaction with emergency responders who, at a point in time, will assume primacy in the local response. All of this must be achieved in the face of an event that will place individuals and teams under acute emotional st