TY  - BOOK
AU  - Valenta, Andrea L
TI  - District of Columbia Emergency Healthcare Coalition Burn Mass Casualty Plan: Development to Exercise Date
SN  - 1559-047X
PY  - 2017///
KW  - *Burns/th [Therapy]
KW  - *Disaster Planning/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - *Health Care Coalitions/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - *Mass Casualty Incidents/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]
KW  - *Trauma Centers/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - Advisory Committees
KW  - Burn Units/og [Organization & Administration]
KW  - Burns/ep [Epidemiology]
KW  - District of Columbia
KW  - Female
KW  - Health Resources
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
KW  - Program Evaluation
KW  - Triage
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online through MWHC library: 2006 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 2006 - present
N2  - The District of Columbia Emergency Healthcare Coalition (DC EHC) brought together a Burn Task Force to tackle the issue of mass burn care in a metropolitan area in light of limited local burn center resources. This article outlines the development of the mass burn care plan. Using a tiered treatment approach, mass burn victims would be transported first to burn centers within the area, followed by nonburn center trauma centers, and finally to nonburn and nontrauma center acute care facilities. Once activated the Burn Task Force would triage and coordinate transfer of mass burn patients within the District for further care at burn centers using a strong link with the Eastern Regional Burn Disaster Consortium. This plan was exercised in the spring of 2014 to test all of the components. To strengthen mass burn care, this plan, put in place for the District of Columbia, has been expanded to include the National Capital Region as well
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/BCR.0000000000000375
ER  -