Can Live-Actor Patients in a Mass Casualty Incident Exercise Benefit as Exercise Players?

Objectives: In a mass casualty incident (MCI) exercise, live-actor patients (LAPs) simulated different scenarios in the exercise. This study compared the benefit to LAPs with that to exercise players (EPs) and nonparticipants (NPs).

Methods: An MCI exercise was conducted in 2018.

Preparation of Medical Supply for Prehospital Emergencies and Disasters: An Internet-Based Simulation Drill.

Background: Mass casualties caused by natural disasters and man-made events may overwhelm local emergency medical services and healthcare systems. Logistics is essential to a successful emergency medical response. Drills have been used in disaster preparedness to validate plans, policies, procedures, and agreements, and identify resource gaps.

Who Can Be the Standardized Patient in Disaster Medical Full-Scale Exercise, Freshman, or Professional?

Background: Disasters cannot be predicted, so being well-prepared is important before a disaster strike. Good preparation needs constant practice and improvement, and full-scale exercise can provide both. The standardized patients (SPs) in a full-scale exercise to simulate patients are vital because they can provide realistic effects to exercise participants.

The Effectiveness of Functional Exercises for Teaching Method Disaster Medicine to Medical Students.

Introduction Functional exercises are effective for testing disaster management training. Previously, we found that functional exercises promote student engagement and improve the perception of learning after exercise. Objective The study objective is to investigate whether functional exercise is effective for teaching disaster medicine.

Review of Medical Response in 2015 TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Aircraft Crash.

TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was a domestic flight that crashed into the Keelung River on February 4, 2015, about several minutes after take-off from Taipei Songshan Airport. There were 53 passengers and five crew members on board, however, only 15 of them survived. Twenty-seven casualties were sent to eight nearby hospitals.

The Value of Functional Exercise in Pediatric Mass- Casualty Incident Training.

Background: Hospital staff in Taiwan practice mass casualty incident (MCI) management through full-scale exercise (FSE). However, FSE is generally resource-intensive and time-consuming. As an alternative, functional exercise (FE) may be more cost-effective with a similar effect in certain aspects.