Disaster Response Practices: Guide to Mass Casualty/Mass Fatality Management Planning

This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan. It identifies a need for a stronger and more global management structure for MC/MF events that includes standardized practices of identification, disposition, and possible repatriation to restore the situation to pre-event levels. This book covers this comprehensive process including disaster mortuary operational response teams (DMORTs), simple triage and rapid treatment (START) and national nurse response teams. It also demonstrates leadership in MC/MF events within government agencies, the public sector and international organizations featuring case studies, scenario questions and summaries of lessons learned.

Michael L. Madigan is a Master Instructor and Supervisor for the Department of Homeland Security Civil Support Office at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, USA. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Central Texas College at Fort Leonard Wood Campus in Missouri, USA. Mr. Madigan is the author and master trainer for the Mass Casualty Decontamination Course for the Department of Defense.