The following links are for free training materials produced by the California Hospital Association. HICS Basic HICS IAP HICS Forms Incident Planning Guides Incident Response Guides For those organizations desiring [...]
My first thought after I saw Why Would You Build a Hospital in a Tsunami Zone was "who would knowingly build a critical facility in a inundation zone?" As I [...]
When people are put under stress they fall back on one of two things; experience or training. Make 2015 the year that your organization offers current, relevant and engaging training [...]
In a perfect world police are there to handle criminal acts, fire fighters available to perform rescues, and EMS personnel close at hand to apply life-saving interventions. Unfortunately, that is [...]
Both the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and a Myocardial Infarction (MI) are managed by addressing key objectives. In fact I think they use the same prioritize activities identically. Read [...]
The reaction to the Ebola outbreak reminds me of the response to HIV when it first presented. In my early days of working on the ambulance, blood was not viewed [...]
Viruses are feared because of high case-fatality rates, no treatment, and communicability from person to person. Infectious doses are often very small. While we have experience with outbreaks, it does [...]
A recently published paper claims that the gender of the name given to individual hurricanes is linked to the public's perception of the risk posed by that storm. In short, [...]
I once thought that a disturbed ants nest was a great example of high entropy. It's not. Don't believe me? Go kick a fire ant nest and stand there. A [...]
A mud slide in Washington State kills 30. A plane disappears with 239 people on board. At Fort Hood, a disturbed man kills 3 people and injures 16 before taking [...]
