Wednesday, December 8, 2010

First Responders - Vital Task in Multi Casualty Incidents


During the past month, MDA has been forced to deal with and give treatment in two different incidents of buses overturning with a large number of injured passengers.

MDA First Responders took part in these incidents and proved the importance of the First Responder system to reinforce the teams and to turn a multi casualty incident into an incident in which the number of people giving first aid matches the number of injured within a very short period of time.

In the road traffic accident which at the Gilon junction in the direction of Karmiel, 13 First Responders took part.

2 First Responders arrived with motor-bicycles (1068 and 1080) on the scene.  11 First Responders arrived on the scene in their own private cars.
In addition, many First Responders came to the MDA stations and manned ambulances for routine work

At the incident of the overturned bus at the Beit Ha'arava junction, the first person to arrive on the scene arrived within only 4 minutes from the moment that the call of a multi casualty incident went out.  The First Responder reported, using his Mirs machine, that about 30 injured people were lying on the ground and he began life saving treatment.  In fact, the report of the First Responder was the first professional report received by the MDA Dispatching centre and enabled them to understand what type of incident it was, the exact location and extent of the injuries.  3 MP3 motor-bicycles arrived at the scene (1108, 1107 and 1072) and a white motor-bicycle (1030).

50 First Responders took part in the incident carrying out a variety of tasks as listed below:

Task                                                 Number

Medic                                                      5
Arrival at the scene of the incident           25
Ambulance driver                                   11
Multi casualty ambulance driver               1
Hospital representatives                          4
Reinforcement teams                              4

Total                                                      50

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