Texas Emergency Medical Task Force EMTF-5

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Texas Emergency Medical Task Force EMTF-7 An
Overview
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Texas Disaster Medical System
EMTF-7 focus
Acute Public Health
RAT Team
Amb trike Teams
Ambulance Strike Team
CAT Teams
Epi Team
Hospital
Medical Staffing Contracts
Nurse Strike Teams
Bus Staging Team
RN Strike Teams
Long Term Care
Regional MOC
CASPER Team
Food Safety Teams
ESRD
AMBUS
ROC
Enviro HealthTeam
MACC
Admin Teams
TSA
MIST
Mobile Medical Unit
Local MOC
TxMAT
Mortuary Team
MSN Shelters

Tx Military Force
D.B.H. Teams
MRC
TxMAT 1
L.P.H.
Red Cross
NOTE Federal and EMAC assets will augment these
teams and strategies
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EMTF-7 Region
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EMTF-7Integrated Medical Response Capability

• Goals
• Rapidly deployable for statewide incidents
• Builds upon regional capability
• Integrated command/control elements
• Self-sufficient for short periods of time
• NIMS compliant
• Modular deployment options

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NOTE Colors notated above and in the following
fourteen slides are utilized to separate the four
EMTF components in this power point
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EMTF Activation
100 Ambulances200 critical patients
4 MMUs 128 patient care beds
5 Ambulance Strike Teams
5 RN Strike Teams
2 Ambuses
Mobile Medical Unit
5 Ambulance Strike Teams
5 RN Strike Teams
2 Ambuses
Mobile Medical Unit
5 Ambulance Strike Teams
5 RN Strike Teams
2 Ambuses
Mobile Medical Unit
5 Ambulance Strike Teams
5 RN Strike Teams
2 Ambuses
Mobile Medical Unit
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Ambulance Strike Teams
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Ambulance Strike Team Purpose Mission

• To ensure uniform and orderly deployment of
  ambulance teams to serve the eight EMTF regions
  in Texas
• To provide supplemental emergency patient care
  and transport during large scale incidents
  requiring patient movement

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Ambulance Strike Team Composition

• 5- Ambulances per Strike Team
• 1- Strike Team Leader per Strike Team in a
  separate vehicle
• All components of the strike team will have
  common communications capability
• Ambulance Strike team will have common
  communications with other EMTF components, i.e.,
  MMU, AMBUS, etc.
• In pursuit

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RN Strike Teams
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RN Strike Team ComponentPurpose Mission

• The RN strike team component of EMTF-7 will
  be deployed to augment staffing of a hospital in
  a like-department of an affected jurisdiction.

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RN Strike Team Composition

• 5- RN teams per Strike Team of like
  specialization
• 1- Strike Team leader per team
• RN team will have common communication capability.

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Ambulance Bus (AMBUS)
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AMBUS Purpose Mission

• Planned and designed to ensure uniform and
  orderly deployment of our regional AMBUS
  component of EMTF-7 across the eight EMTF regions
  in Texas
• To provide the capability for mass patient care
  and transportation, as well as responders during
  incidents which threaten public health safety

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Mobile Medical Unit (MMU)Goals

• 16 32 bed capacity
• Provide emergency stabilizing care and transfer
• 6-12 hour launch time for 72-96 hour deployment
• Clinical and Facilities Groups
• Standardized minimal supplies, pharmaceuticals,
  and capabilities
• No x-ray capability

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Mobile Medical Unit
EMTF-7 Mobile Medical Units
Aerial picture of our Western Shelter
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EMTF-7 MMU Exterior
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EMTF-7MMU Recommended Staffing

• 4- Registered Nurses (RN)
• 1- Medical Doctor (MD or D.O.)
• 1- Technician/Clerk
• 1- Physician Assistant, or 1- Nurse Practitioner
• 2- Paramedics, or
• 2- Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN)

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MMU - The Interior
Pictures inside of the Zumro Shelter
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For More Information or to Join EMTF-7

• Contacts
• EMTF-7 Coordinator Cindy Riggan
  emtf_at_tsa-l.com
• RAC Executive Directors
• TSA-L Melanie Tucker director_at_tsa-l.com
• TSA-M Christine Reeves creeves_at_hotrac.org
• TSA-N David Rogers david.bvrac_at_gmail.com
• TSA-O Dave Reimer executivedirector_at_catrac.or
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• Note TSA-L (Central Texas Regional Advisory
  Council) is the lead RAC for EMTF-7.