You are the emergency physician in charge of a regional hospital emergency department at 1600 on a weekday. Rural emergency services notify you that 10 people are involved in a major road traffic crash, with further details to follow.
Current ED status: two resus cubicles are occupied by a 19-year-old woman with polypharmacy overdose and altered conscious state, and a 65-year-old man with AMI who completed thrombolysis 1 hour ago without complications and is awaiting tertiary transfer. In the 10 general cubicles, eight patients are waiting to be seen and two cubicles are vacant.
State three (3) specific preparations you would make for this incident.
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/ 3
State six (6) steps in preparing your department before patient arrival.
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/ 6
You are asked to review the department's disaster management guidelines. State three (3) important steps in this process.
(Marked out of 3.0)
/ 3
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