CERT Roundtable Emergency Response: The Medical Perspective

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CERT RoundtableEmergency ResponseThe Medical
Perspective

• Carl H. Schultz, MD
• Professor of Emergency Medicine
• Director, Disaster Medical Services

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Major Challenges

• Medical surge capacity
• Credentialing of volunteers
• Resource allocation strategies
• Patient identification and tracking
• Family reunification
• Hospital evacuations
• Communication
• Within response system
• With general public

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Major Challenges

• Tools for rapid assessment disaster assessment
• Casualty estimation
• Damage assessment
• Response management tools (decision support)

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IT Contributions

• Credentialing of volunteers
• Patient tracking
• Communication
• Modeling for casualty and damage assessments
• Management decision support

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IT Mitigation Efforts

• Volunteer credentialing
• ESAR-VHP (web based)
• Hospital based system (proposed combining
  hospital databases using excel or similar)
• Patient tracking
• RFID, bar coding, other systems
• Communication
• WIISARD, WSF? (cell phone prioritizer)
• Earthquake casualty estimate model

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Top Priorities

• Communication solutions
• Volunteer credentialing
• Patient tracking