The Altered Standards of Care & Surge Capacity in a Mass Casualty Event will bring together an influential gathering of medical and public health leaders to teach preparedness planners at the Federal, State, regional, community, and health systems levels how to plan and support surge capacity in healthcare systems and develop altered standards of care to meet mass casualty needs during natural or manmade disasters.
Registration includes a guided tour of the CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and CDC Museum
What You Will Learn
- What is being done in planning for altered standards of care at the state and local levels
- How to develop altered standards of care in the context of planning for a mass casualty event (including guidelines and tools)
- Characteristics of medical surge capacity demand for sudden-impact disasters
- How to assess the capacity of health care facilities and systems in your region
- CDC’s surge capacity priorities, activities, and initiatives
- How EMS operations are affected in times of crisis
- Allocating scarce resources to save as many lives as possible
- Who is in charge and for how long?
- Utilization of the Strategic National Stockpile in the field
- Effective utilization of other resources (MRC, DMAT, Sheriff's Auxiliary, etc)
- Funding sources / grants
- Legal issues to consider during disasters
- And more!
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