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CERT Roundtable Emergency Response: The Medical Perspective

CERT Roundtable Emergency Response: The Medical Perspective. Carl H. Schultz, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine Director, Disaster Medical Services. Major Challenges. Medical surge capacity Credentialing of volunteers Resource allocation strategies Patient identification and tracking

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CERT Roundtable Emergency Response: The Medical Perspective

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  1. CERT RoundtableEmergency Response:The Medical Perspective Carl H. Schultz, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine Director, Disaster Medical Services

  2. Major Challenges • Medical surge capacity • Credentialing of volunteers • Resource allocation strategies • Patient identification and tracking • Family reunification • Hospital evacuations • Communication • Within response system • With general public

  3. Major Challenges • Tools for rapid assessment disaster assessment • Casualty estimation • Damage assessment • Response management tools (decision support)

  4. IT Contributions • Credentialing of volunteers • Patient tracking • Communication • Modeling for casualty and damage assessments • Management decision support

  5. IT Mitigation Efforts • Volunteer credentialing • ESAR-VHP (web based) • Hospital based system (proposed – combining hospital databases using excel or similar) • Patient tracking • RFID, bar coding, other systems • Communication • WIISARD, WSF? (cell phone prioritizer) • Earthquake casualty estimate model

  6. Top Priorities • Communication solutions • Volunteer credentialing • Patient tracking

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