NASHVILLE -- Disaster Management Systems, Inc., the nation’s leading supplier of disaster preparedness solutions, announced the availability of a new e-learning course for S.T.A.R.T. triage. The ...

The emergence of a new infectious disease that rapidly spreads around the world, like Covid-19, makes disaster planning experts move into overdrive. Lessons learned over the last decade can help cope ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the selection of 205 applicants to participate in the new Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model. A final list of ET3 Model ...

Dennis and Ken Ortiz are in the business of disaster. The Ortiz brothers, both captains for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, run a small business that provides tools emergency crews can use to ...

Strong evidence-based emergency triage education is essential to a robust ED, says this nurse leader. For many patients, the emergency department (ED) is the first point of contact they will have with ...

The Queen’s Medical Center opened two “disaster tents” outside in its ambulance bay today to evaluate and test patients for the novel coronavirus while keeping them separated from Queen’s emergency ...

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A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

As the entry point for a hospital’s response to many types of crisis scenarios, emergency departments must develop disaster preparedness plans that go beyond natural disasters and utility failures to ...