"Mass Casualty Incidents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Events that overwhelm the resources of local HOSPITALS and health care providers. They are likely to impose a sustained demand for HEALTH SERVICES rather than the short, intense peak customary with smaller scale disasters.
| Descriptor ID |
D054527
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.198.240.856.800.537 I01.880.735.900.800.575 N06.230.100.160
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| Concept/Terms |
Mass Casualty Incidents- Mass Casualty Incidents
- Casualty Incident, Mass
- Casualty Incidents, Mass
- Incident, Mass Casualty
- Incidents, Mass Casualty
- Mass Casualty Incident
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| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mass Casualty Incidents" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound on Secondary Triage: A Pilot Study. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 04 01; 17:e194.
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Assessing Hospital Adaptive Resource Allocation Strategies in Responding to Mass Casualty Incidents. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 06; 16(3):1105-1115.
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Students Experience Mass Casualty Nursing From the Patient Perspective in a Simulated Mass Casualty Exercise. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2021 May-Jun 01; 42(3):174-176.
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Prehospital Response Time of the Emergency Medical Service during Mass Casualty Incidents and the Effect of Triage: A Retrospective Study. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 06; 16(3):1091-1098.
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Mass Casualty Incident Simulation for a Small Space With Limited Resources. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2020 Sep/Oct; 41(5):E52-E53.
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Spinal Immobilization in Disasters: A Systematic Review. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2020 Aug; 35(4):406-411.
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Designing and executing a functional exercise to test a novel informatics tool for mass casualty triage. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 10 01; 26(10):1091-1098.
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Enough. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2018 Nov; 85(5):1027.
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Validating Signs and Symptoms From An Actual Mass Casualty Incident to Characterize An Irritant Gas Syndrome Agent (IGSA) Exposure: A First Step in The Development of a Novel IGSA Triage Algorithm. J Emerg Nurs. 2017 Jul; 43(4):333-338.
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A review of the literature on the validity of mass casualty triage systems with a focus on chemical exposures. Am J Disaster Med. 2014; 9(2):137-50.