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3106.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session involves presentations from a variety of projects all focusing on aiding local planners and emergency managers to prepare for natural or man-made disasters. These projects include: assessment of shuttered (closed) hospitals for use as surge capacity expansion facilities; a planning model that estimates the number of casualties from various bioterrorism and disaster scenarios and the medical resources they will require; a mass casualty evacuation model that estimates the medical and transportation needs of victims being removed from a disaster scene; and a thorough assessment of methods for engaging community organizations of many types in the disaster planning process | |||
| Learning Objectives: The presentations are intended to provide practical guidance and hands-on tools; these tools will be presented, along with the most important issue planners will face in using these tools. The tools are intended for immediate use by emergency planners, to meet the following objectives: 1-assess closed hospitals and other candidate facilities to serve as “surge” facilities to expand hospital capacity, 2-undertake all the advance planning to staff and stock such a surge facility, 3-review and revise state laws and regulations that may impede the use of such a surge facility, 4-understand the medical resources that will be needed to respond to each of a dozen specific threats/disasters, ranging from natural disasters to terrorism and bioterrorism events, 5-prepare to evacuate (and track) victims who require relocation to safe and appropriate care settings, and 6-integrate local communities and providers into comprehensive planning. | |||
| Andrea Hassol, MSPH | |||
| Sally J. Phillips, RN, PhD | |||
| Surge Model: A web-based planning tool for estimating medical resources needed to treat casualties of WMD attacks Thomas F. Rich | |||
| National Mass Patient and Evacuee Movement, Regulating, and Tracking System: An Overview Richard Zane, MD, Thomas F. Rich | |||
Expanding Hospital Capacity Following Mass Casualty Events: Use of Shuttered (closed) Hospitals ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Andrea Hassol, MSPH, Richard Zane, MD | |||
| Emergency Preparedness Planning and Exercises: Comparing Hospital and Health Center Community Integration Jerod M. Loeb, PhD, Barbara I. Braun, PhD, Nicole V. Wineman, MA, MPH, MBA, Nicole Finn, MA, Stephen Schmaltz, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA