[Scan-DC] MedAmBus 726

[Doug Kitchener]

All of that occurred to me as well... I suspect that for a real disaster with many trauma patients, there is probably a plan for triage that includes figuring which hospitals can take what and how many, and probably setting up field hospitals as well... ie, the most severely injured would be taken to Suburban, etc, etc... with the MedAmBus taking either multiple casualties there, or taking the largest number of mixed patients to whatever location would accommodate that mix... something along those lines.  Obviously in a large mass casualty situation there would be some amount of time when the EMS system would be overloaded to some extent, catching up as time passed.  bleah, what thoughts.

I wasn't listening to Golf but thought that the EMS duty officer(s) and/or command officers would have talked with the hospitals and/or EMRC and had all that figured out...

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I got a kick out of the idea of the MedAmBus running from GEC to Shady Grove to MGH to Holy Cross to WAH to Suburban like a regular bus route, dropping off patients along the way:  "Your next station-stop is Montgomery General, transfer point to Shock-Trauma, doors opening on the right, thank you for riding the MedAmBus and have a nice day!"

Ralph Kramden

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> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:34:25 -0500
> To: oldsdoug at hotmail.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MedAmBus 726
> From: cathy at drzyzgula.org
>
> I didn't hear the end of that incident, but I did find it interesting that
> dispatch seemed a little uncertain on where to send the bus after the
> patients were loaded. Clearly it is good to have an on the scene vehicle
> that can handle numerous patients (20 I think) but then there is the
> question of do you send them all to one hospital? I can't imagine the bus
> would travel from hospital to hospital, dropping off a few at each, but if
> they were mostly trauma patients what hospital could take them all?
>
> Cathy


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