ICS and the Response Areas

1. ICS and the Response Areas HARRT 2004

2. Minor Treatment Unit • Purpose • To provide for the necessary DISASTER MEDICAL evaluation, stabilization, and disposition of victims who have conditions which ARE NOT LIFE or LIMB-THREATENING

3. Minor Treatment Unit • Actions • Identification of Minor Treatment Unit Leader • Assignment of roles and responsibilities • Increased responsibilities of care providers • Disaster Medical Care • A, B, C’s • Pain management • Greatest limitations on resource utilization

4. What you can do to be better prepared? • Know what your role is in a the disaster plan • Participate in your facility’s drills • Volunteer to participate in community drills • Actively seek HEICS training • Consider how you would respond in a variety of scenarios

5. What can you do to be better prepared? • Assist with disaster and large scale event planning in your department and in your institution • Practice HEICS • What skill sets do you offer? Have you made these skill sets known? • Maximize these skill sets • Seek additional skills