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.