Mci ?

[Chimpie]

Tigger, the way it would work around here (with your scenario) is that the person with the most seniority on your ambulance would take command and the other would start triage. As command you would start looking at the scene at what I call the "30,000 foot level" to see what is going to be needed right away. Extracation, number of ambulances, what level of MCI is it, etc.

When fire arrives and you hand over command to them, you join your partner with triage duties.

Here, the first ambulance stays on scene to set up triage. They will not be transporting.

 

[AnthonyM83]

Whats the question here?

Did a plane crash once, crashed out in thick swamp land. 6 or so pts from the plane and a few emergency services types who done got bit by the fuel and the cold.

A couple of car accidents and so forth.

Are you after something in particular OP?

I get the feeling he didn't have an exact question formulated...after the drill was probably just thinking about MCI's and wondering how they would go in general / people's experiences...?

 

[EMSANTHEM]

That's correct & how they managed the resources,dispatch & all the things that go with a MCI .

 

[johnrsemt]

Worked many, been first on scene on a few.

Couple of interesting ones: Nursing homes hit by tornadoes (no real injuries), but what do you do with 100 patients in a ECF with no roof?

Was last transporting truck on a MCI with 13 patients on the freeway, all walking with minor injuries, but we were the only ambulance that told the hospital that they all walked through 6-10" of diesel fuel to get off the freeway. That caused problems with the other crews and the hospital.

 

[mycrofft]

Single two man crew in a Cadillac ambulance, six occupants of two cars; family of five, mostly grown farm boys, mostly bumps and bruises, one fx forearm, and the drunk in the other car with facial lacs, unconscious, possible abdominal injury (turned out not to be).
We're all crowded into the Caddy, when 1/2 way to hosp, one of the family headed into by the Honda says "I'd like to find the S..O.A B.... who did this", then his brother points to the other driver and says "Hey, who's HE?".

No other resources, no streetlights, only two EMT's and made it in OK.