Clinical

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Risk Management

Hope is Not A Strategy: Mass Casualty Response in the OR #5051 (1.50 CH)

5051 - Hope is Not A Strategy: Mass Casualty Response in the OR #5051 (1.50 CH)

Speaker(s)

• JK

  Jeffrey Keane, Jr., BSN, RN, CNOR

  Unit Based Educator
  Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr West
  Boston, MA

Mass casualty incidents do not occur frequently but when they do staff will outstrip their resources quickly. Developing this plan ahead of time will allow teams to practice the plan so it will be muscle memory in the case of an event. These low frequency events develop very quickly and teams need to be prepared to go into action. This session will demonstrate the effectiveness of having an OR specific plan and utilizing the plan during an event.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how preplanning is critical for an effective response.
• Develop an OR specific multidisciplinary mass casualty incident plan.
• Describe the utilization of an OR Mass Casualty Plan during an exercise involving a mass shooting.