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Forecasting Management of Casualities

This document discusses forecasting and management of casualties from disasters. It defines casualties as deaths and injuries large enough to disrupt emergency services. Casualty management has two phases - pre-disaster planning including risk assessments and capacity building, and post-disaster response including logistics, needs assessment, and coordination. The document provides guidance on casualty triage, transportation using litters, and evacuation as well as managing fire disasters and treating different types of burns.
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Forecasting Management of Casualities

This document discusses forecasting and management of casualties from disasters. It defines casualties as deaths and injuries large enough to disrupt emergency services. Casualty management has two phases - pre-disaster planning including risk assessments and capacity building, and post-disaster response including logistics, needs assessment, and coordination. The document provides guidance on casualty triage, transportation using litters, and evacuation as well as managing fire disasters and treating different types of burns.
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FORECASTING / MANAGEMENT OF

CASUALITIES
WHAT IS MANAGEMENT OF
CAUSALITIES?

 The word casualties is most often


used by the news media to describe
deaths and injuries resulting
from wars or disasters.
FORECASTING OF CASUALITIES

 Forecasting of disasters is not possible but


awareness of calamity (earthquake / flood /
cyclones) prone areas is also crucial.
FORECASTING

 ANY EVENT RESULTING IN NUMBER OF


VICTIMS LARGE ENOUGH TO DISRUPT THE
NORMAL COURSE OF EMERGENCY AND
HEALTH CARE SERVICES.
HANDLING OF CASUALTIES
Triage
Definitive
Search Triage Regulation
Rescue Stabilization Evacuation

Advanced
Disaster Area Medical Transport Hospitalization
Post
MANAGEMENT OF CASUALITIES
 Two phases of casualty management

 Pre-disaster phase
 Post-disaster phase
Pre-disaster phase
 Understanding the epidemiology of disasters
 Understanding the population health demographics
and critical care infrastructure in place.
 Undertaking risk and hazard assessments Capacity
development to ensure acute event can be
appropriately managed by the affected nation
Post-disaster phase
 Ensuring timely response and appropriate response
 Logistics
 The “field hospital”
 Needs assessment
 Communication and co-ordination, through
incident management team
Transportation of casualities
 When the situation is urgent you may have to transport the
casualty. For this reason, you must know how to transport
him without increasing the seriousness of his condition.

 Transporting a casualty by litter is safer and more


comfortable for him than by manual means; it is also easier
for you.

 Manual transportation, however, may be the only feasible


method because of the terrain or the combat situation.
Management of fire disaster
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE RESCUERS:
• Self-control
• Self-protection
• Reduction of the fire
• Extraction and transfer of victims to the open air
• Appropriate action when clothing is on tire
• Removal of burning clothing
• Emergency treatment of burned areas
• Knowledgeable action pending more complete relief
• Dealing with chemical burns
• Dealing with electrical burns
Casualty Evacuation TTPs

•USE SPECIALIZED
EQUIPMENT

•POLELESS LITTER

•SKED LITTER

•DESIGNATE AND
TRAIN
AID AND LITTER TMS
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