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Parent topics
- Emergency management [r]: Preparation and response to natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate violence at both the routine local level and when local resources are overwhelmed [e]
- Emergency medical services [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. [e]
Subtopics
- Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources [e]
- Mass casualty incident [r]: A medical emergency where the number and severity of victims is expected to overwhelm available resources, requiring a decision to defer treatment and provide comfort care only to those who have no realistic chance of survival [e]
- Field medicine [r]: Planning, managing and performing medical services in the pre-hospital or non-hospital context, variously by emergency medical technician under medical control or directly by physicians (e.g., field amputation and other management of crush injury) [e]
- ICS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Incident command system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space Shuttle Challenger disaster [r]: The disintegration of the Challenger shortly after takeoff on January 28, 1986. [e]
- Sterilization (human, elective procedures) [r]: Procedure performed to stop fertility permanently, in either the male or the female. [e]