MCI Action List
STAGE 1 GOALS
- Needs Assessment
- -estimated time-line
- -injury types
- -incoming # patients
- Incident situation
- ED/OR/Hosp capacity assessment
- Asset Assignment
- -Staff - communicate
- -Stuff - secure
- -Space - assign
- Activate Response (local)
- (understand base concepts of code yellow ED vs. code yellow Hospital)
- Declare code yellow ED
- Activate local incident command (administration)
- Notify clinical departments: ED, trauma for Peds & Adults, radiology & shift coordinators
- Partial mobilization of staff: ED trauma nurses, radiology, public affairs, EVS, security, public affairs
- Activate local reverse triage
- Decide/Assess:
- Define staff, space, stuff needs
- Acquire/Prepare additional supplies
- [partial] mobilization of hospital incident command
Activate concepts of Triage
STAGE 2 GOALS
1. Needs Assessment ⁃ situation/incoming patients needs assessment/estimated ongoing time-line ⁃ Hospital capacity needs assessment
2. Activate Hospital Response ⁃ (understand base concepts of code yellow ED vs. code yellow Hospital) ⁃ Declare code yellow HOSPITAL ⁃ Activate Hospital incident command (HICS) ⁃ Notify clinical departments: wards, trauma for Peds & Adults, radiology & shift coordinators ⁃ Stop elective operations (ORs/Clinics) ⁃ Mobilization of staff: Hospital nursing, blood bank, EVS, radiology, public affairs, security, public affairs, facilities ⁃ Call in additional staff ⁃ Activate hospital-wide reverse triage
3. Decide/Assess: ⁃ [partial] mobilization of hospital incident command ⁃ Define staff, space, stuff needs ⁃ Acquire/Prepare additional supplies ⁃ Establish contact with other hospitals ⁃ Go on ED diversion ⁃ Contact materials management for more supplies (eg, PPE)
4. Activate concepts of Re-Triage
STAGE 3 GOALS
1. Triage + Treat Patients 2. Move Patients Around 3. Expand available space to accommodate more patients 4. Secure perimeter/crowd control 5. Attempt to Resupply
STAGE 4 GOALS
1. maintain contact with other hospitals 2. needs assessment: open ICU/OR beds check 3. borrow supplies 4. re-supply 5. media/crowd management 6. Triage
STAGE 5 GOALS
1. Staff management – getting more fatigue mitigation; food 2. Family management 3. Advanced triage 4. Definitive Treatment - ICU, OR, Home, Psych Liaison, Morgue 5. Ongoing security
STAGE 6 GOALS
1. Send excess staff home 2. Begin elective procedures again 3. Bring in new staff 4. De-escalate security 5. Restock supplies 6. Laundry/Room Flips