FORECASTING / MANAGEMENT OF

CASUALITIES
 WHAT IS MANAGEMENT OF
CAUSALITIES?

 The word casualties is most often

used by the news media to describe
deaths and injuries resulting
from wars or disasters.
 FORECASTING OF CASUALITIES

 Forecasting of disasters is not possible but

awareness of calamity (earthquake / flood /
cyclones) prone areas is also crucial.
 FORECASTING

 ANY EVENT RESULTING IN NUMBER OF

VICTIMS LARGE ENOUGH TO DISRUPT THE
NORMAL COURSE OF EMERGENCY AND
HEALTH CARE SERVICES.
 HANDLING OF CASUALTIES
Triage
Definitive
Search Triage Regulation
Rescue Stabilization Evacuation

Advanced
Disaster Area Medical Transport Hospitalization
Post
 MANAGEMENT OF CASUALITIES
 Two phases of casualty management

 Pre-disaster phase
 Post-disaster phase
 Pre-disaster phase
 Understanding the epidemiology of disasters
 Understanding the population health demographics
and critical care infrastructure in place.
 Undertaking risk and hazard assessments Capacity
development to ensure acute event can be
appropriately managed by the affected nation
 Post-disaster phase
 Ensuring timely response and appropriate response
 Logistics
 The “field hospital”
 Needs assessment
 Communication and co-ordination, through
incident management team
 Transportation of casualities
 When the situation is urgent you may have to transport the
casualty. For this reason, you must know how to transport
him without increasing the seriousness of his condition.

 Transporting a casualty by litter is safer and more

comfortable for him than by manual means; it is also easier
for you.

 Manual transportation, however, may be the only feasible

method because of the terrain or the combat situation.
 Management of fire disaster
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE RESCUERS:
• Self-control
• Self-protection
• Reduction of the fire
• Extraction and transfer of victims to the open air
• Appropriate action when clothing is on tire
• Removal of burning clothing
• Emergency treatment of burned areas
• Knowledgeable action pending more complete relief
• Dealing with chemical burns
• Dealing with electrical burns
 Casualty Evacuation TTPs

•USE SPECIALIZED
EQUIPMENT

•POLELESS LITTER

•SKED LITTER

•DESIGNATE AND
TRAIN
AID AND LITTER TMS
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