This Friday my colleague and I will be holding a class for our trauma center. It will consist of the Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings (IRTB) awareness level class with some additional case studies, round tables, table top exercises and hospital specific information, considerations, and strategies to follow the 4 hour course. We are embarking on a series of courses aimed to raise the awareness levels and change the psychology (it can't or won't happen here) in the hospital. We will be bringing more healthcare/hospital specific structure to the areas of terror response (as well as the possibility of being targeted and not simply planning to be the receivers of event victims), homicide/suicide bombers, active shooters, and many other areas that are common areas of discussion in the LE, Fire, and EMS realms but still not adequately integrated into the healthcare arena. We hope to measure our initial successes, add to our repertoire, and take this show on the road (initially to other hospitals in California and eventually nationally).
I would love to hear your thoughts, lessons learned, or other input/feedback/critique. We are in this together...
I invite you to join the ongoing discussions at Hospital / Clinical Emergency Management
Also, join me at Linkedin and on Twitter (ClinicalEM)
As always, stay safe. dp
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I would love to hear your thoughts, lessons learned, or other input/feedback/critique. We are in this together...
I invite you to join the ongoing discussions at Hospital / Clinical Emergency Management
Also, join me at Linkedin and on Twitter (ClinicalEM)
As always, stay safe. dp
