Emergency & Disaster Response Plan Products & Tools - Casualty Care Coordinator, Volunteer Patient Tracking, Triage Evaluation & Radiation Assessment Tools

DPRO believes that first responders and first receivers should be afforded tools that are functional and adaptable to a variety of institutions tasked with responding to disaster medicine. These tools are best developed by those who actually do the work of patient care and are intimately familiar with the nuances associated with providing such care.

The following tools have been field tested and found to be adaptable and applicable and are provided to you for your review and use. Feedback on the tools is always welcomed and appreciated. Your input will help to develop a more robust tool over time and further testing.

This manual has been developed to guide exercise planners through the process of procuring, educating, orienting, and organizing volunteers for an exercise. The information is organized under quick access headings for informational content and also provides appendices with (downloadable) sample forms that will assist planners from their initial phases of planning through completion of the exercise event. This document promotes a successful exercise and enhances the likelihood that volunteers with return to meet your future exercise needs. Click here to go to Casualty Care Coordinator Manual.

2. Patient Tracking Tool

This tool has been developed to enhance a hospital’s ability to respond to disasters involving multiple casualties. The focus of this tool is on tracking solutions that do not require electronic technology and may be used with just in time training as either a primary patient tracking system, or a secondary (back up) to an electronic patient tracking system in the event of a power outage.

Click here to go to Simple Solutions to Hospital Patient Tracking Manual.

While hospitals have been tasked with providing mass casualty care, there has been very little feedback on their ability to provide such care. Over-triage and Under-triage have been widely described in EMS (Emergency Medical Services) and Hospital literature, but very little help has been offered to assist with accurate feedback. The concept of the triage tool has been developed and applied to the Dynamic Patient Scenario card sets in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of triage.

In the event of a radiation incident, it is highly unlikely that hospitals or other responders will know the degree of radiation exposure. Therefore the signs and symptoms at the onset of presentation for healthcare are essential. ARHQ has developed a functional tool that assists with an estimate of the amount of radiation exposure based upon signs symptoms in relationship to time of exposure. The tool is intuitive and applicable and can be found at website:

DPRO is aware that clinical time is valuable and that exercises provide the perfect training opportunity to teach the highlights of injury or illness patterns and treatment techniques associated with specific disasters. These manuals assume that the clinicians providing patient care have fundamental knowledge in the areas of advanced trauma (ATLS), burn (ABLS), Pediatric care (PALS) and cardiac life support (ACLS). The information contained in each manual is based upon the most recent literature review and is specific to the event. The manuals are designed to be a thirty minute teaching module that provides an opportunity for a pre- and post test assessment of knowledge and skills.