Major Incident Management Part 2 – At the Hospital

Major Incident Management Part 2 – At the Hospital

May 10, 2022 | 2 comments

In Part 1 of our review of major incident management, we focused on management at the disaster scene. In Part 2, we will focus on how hospitals respond to the declaration of a major incident and manage the potentially large number of casualties that can arrive in the...
Major Incident Management Part 1 – At the Scene

Major Incident Management Part 1 – At the Scene

Apr 10, 2022 | 0 comments

A major incident is an incident (or series of incidents) causing casualties on a scale beyond the normal resources of the emergency and healthcare services’ ability to manage. The Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) manual states that a major...