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Bus Collision Response: What You Need To Know
Every day in your community, vehicles travel the road carrying large numbers of potential victims; some children, some elderly, some with special medical issues, and all your responsibility. Every year 63,000 inter-city, transit, and school buses crashes result in over 14,000 injuries and hundreds of fatalities. This program will help make you ready when it happens in your area. Presenting lessons learned from around the world along with personal experience managing school bus and inter-city tour bus incidents Rom Duckworth lays out what you need to know to manage major (and minor) motor coach collisions in your response area.
Lots of patients, lots of problems, lots of partners. How do you manage it all?
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EMS Response to Bus Collisions, the MCI Perspective
MCI On Wheels: Bus Collisions Response
How to use SALT to triage MCI patients
How to practice EMS Response to Multi-Casualty Incidents
EMS Response to Bus Accidents: Simulations and Preparation
Virtual reality technology used to teach MCI scene command
Fire Engineering Simulation: Bus Accident Mass Casualty Incident (MCI)
Quiz: How accurately can you triage 10 MCI patients?
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