Background Disasters—ranging from natural, such as environmental events and pandemics,
to accidental and intentional—have significantly increased in recent decades. 1 To …

Based on input from its members, the SAC mission evolved from purely addressing the
needs of the ICT to developing and updating clinical guidance for COVID-19 evaluation …

Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has underscored how ill-prepared
healthcare systems are for mass casualty events (MCEs,) especially as MCEs increase …

Background and Significance When hospitals are subject to prolonged surges in patients,
such as during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, additional clinicians …

The mass casualty incident (MCI) has been defined as “an event that overwhelms the local
healthcare system, where the number of casualties vastly exceeds the local resources and …

Emergency medicine (EM) is the youngest medical specialty, but its scope and position in
the health care system has allowed it to play a critical role in the early management of …

In 2019, the virus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
spread across the world causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). On March 11, 2020 …

The United Nations predicts that, despite a rise in urbanisation, by the year 2050 there will
be up to 3.1 billion people living in a remote environment. All of these people will have …

Disasters are becoming increasingly prevalent across the world with the increased amount
of damage that human beings have imposed on the nature or potential threats of emerging …

Objective: All communities around the world can face a devastating disaster at any time.
Therefore, it is of great importance for hospitals to maintain their medical care functions in …