Summary: Disaster medicine, which can be viewed as a combination of emergency medicine and public health, covers a broad range of topics including blast/penetrating injuries, CBRNE, operational medicine, disaster psychology, event medicine, and humanitarian medicine. This presentation will highlight: 1. The definition of a disaster and common factors in all disasters. 2. The phases and goals of emergency management. 3. Common areas of focus in healthcare emergency management (e.g., surge capacity, security, decontamination, education/training, drills/exercises). 4. The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and Cooper University Health Care’s modified HICS structure. 5. The hazard vulnerability analysis, emergency operations plan, continuity of operations plan, and 96-hour plan. 6. Surge capacity and how it relates to conventional, contingency, and crisis modes of care. 7. Exercise design and drills.
Simon Sarkisian (Sun,) studied this question.