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UMC, LCMC officials describe emergency response after New Year's Day mass casualty
Summary
LCMC Health and University Medical Center officials described treating about 26 patients after a New Year's Day incident on Bourbon Street, detailing surge protocols, family reunification efforts and longer-term care provided to critically injured patients.
University Medical Center and LCMC Health officials told the LSU Board of Supervisors that their staff responded to a large-scale mass casualty incident in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, treating about 26 patients in the first two hours and standing up rapid surge and family-reunification operations.
The presentation, given to the Board during its meeting, outlined clinical, security and family-support steps taken after the hospital received an early-morning call about a large incident. Greg Fearn, chief executive officer of LCMC Health, said his system quickly escalated staffing and resources: “Pretty quickly, they realized that there were gonna be a number of patients coming into the hospital, and that’s when our emergency department went through a process of notifying what we call a small scale mass casualty incident,” he said. “Within the next roughly 30 to 45 minutes, we then activated a large scale MCI.”
Why it matters: University Medical Center (UMC) is the region’s safety-net trauma center and was the primary receiving hospital for…
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