Implementation of the Hospital Incident Command System in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: A systematic review.

Introduction: At the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many healthcare institutions activated the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) to manage their pandemic response. The current literature includes numerous case reports describing individual institutional responses. This paper serves to synthesize the various lessons learned published in the current literature.

Multiple Hospital In-Situ Mass Casualty Incident Training Simulation for Emergency Medicine Residents: A Sarin Bomb Scenario.

Introduction: We simulated an on-site, multi-hospital mass casualty incident (MCI) to educate emergency medicine providers in the principles of trauma resuscitation and collaboration with administration and staff during an MCI.

Methods: We implemented high-fidelity manikins, inflatable manikins, and actors to simulate a sarin gas bombing. Learners triaged patients at a decontamination tent using the simple triage and rapid treatment (START) tool, or they participated in a simulation in a resuscitation bay.

Search and Rescue in California: The Need for a Centralized Reporting System.

Introduction: There is no published information on the epidemiology of wilderness rescues in California outside of national parks. The objective of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of wilderness search and rescue (SAR) missions in California and identify risk factors for individuals requiring rescue due to accidental injury, illness, or navigation errors in the California wilderness.

Methods: A retrospective review of SAR missions in California from 2018 to 2020 was conducted.

Accidental Hypothermia: 'You're Not Dead Until You're Warm and Dead'.

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Assessing the impact of an emergency trauma course for senior medical students in Kenya.

Introduction: Ninety percent of all injury-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The WHO recommends short, resource-specific trauma courses for healthcare providers. Studies show that teaching trauma courses to medical students in developed countries leads to significant increases in knowledge and skill.

Comparison of sudden cardiac arrest resuscitation performance data obtained from in-hospital incident chart review and in situ high-fidelity medical simulation.

Introduction: High-fidelity medical simulation of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) presents an opportunity for systematic probing of in-hospital resuscitation systems. Investigators developed and implemented the SimCode program to evaluate simulation's ability to generate meaningful data for system safety analysis and determine concordance of observed results with institutional quality data.

Methods: Resuscitation response performance data were collected during in situ SCA simulations on hospital medical floors.