TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Disaster and Mass Casualty A1 - Briggs, Susan M. A2 - Moore, Ernest E. A2 - Feliciano, David V. A2 - Mattox, Kenneth L. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Trauma, 8e AB - No one can predict the time, location, or complexity of the next disaster. The management of the medical effects of contemporary disasters, whether natural or man-made, is one of the most significant challenges facing medical providers today. Disaster medical care, including trauma care, is not the same as conventional medical care. Disaster medical care requires a fundamental change (“crisis management care”) in the care of disaster victims in order to achieve the objective of providing the “greatest good for the greatest number of individuals.”1,2,3,4,5 The demands of disaster medical care have changed over the past decade, both in the scope of medical care, the type of threats, and the field of operations (Fig. 8-1). Mass casualty incidents (MCI) are events causing numbers of casualties large enough to disrupt the health care services of the affected region. This is in contrast to multiple casualty events in which medical resources are strained (prehospital and/or hospital resources) but not overwhelmed. Demand for resources always exceeds the Supply of available resources in a disaster. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1147414213 ER -