About the course
Whether due to violence, accidents, or epidemics, most contexts where MSF operates have the potential to result in a mass casualty event. Mass Casualty Planning is how facilities prepare for and establish order out of chaos. Mass Casualty Triage is one of the first and most critical steps in re-establishing this order.
In this course, you will learn to triage patients in a mass casualty scenario.
Attention! This training is an introduction to mass casualty triage. Learning to effectively perform mass casualty triage requires expert instruction and hands-on practice. You will find that the training raises questions that you will want to discuss with someone experienced in the practice of mass casualty triage. This is expected and appropriate.Managing the complexity of a mass casualty event requires theoretical knowledge as well as practice and experience.
Target audience
Medical doctors, nurses, nurse assistants
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course you will be able to:
Explain what Mass Casualty Triage is and how it is different from triage under routine conditions.
Categorize patients according to their severity using the Mass Casualty Triage Tool.Explain key components of triage during a mass casualty incident such as: scene safety, life-saving interventions and continuously re-evaluating patients.
List of Contents
1. What is Mass Casualty Triage?
2. Mass Casualty Triage Structure: The characters
3. Mass Casualty Triage in Action: The five steps
4. The Reference Card
Methodology
This course is primarily designed for staff who may be called to participate in the triage of patients resulting from a mass casualty event (frontline doctors and nurses, medical activity managers, hospital clinical lead, nursing activity managers).
It will also be useful for:
1) Staff who may be called upon to participate in a mass casualty response in order to gain an awareness of some of the key clinical activities involved in mass casualty preparedness (logisticians in a health facility, PC/FieldCo, MedCo, Health Advisor/RMP).
2) Staff who may be required to identify training needs for mass casualty management (Health Advisor/Référent Medical Polyvalent, MedCo, MTL/PMR).
Evaluation
The post test is composed by 10 multiple choice questions.
Certification
You will receive a badge and certificate of completion if:
1) you go through all the activities of the course and
2) your score is ≥80% in the post test.