Major Incident Triage; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

So this month we’re looking at major incidents and specifically the triage process that is now coming into play in the UK and further afield that you need to know about!

We normally stick pretty strongly to clinical topics; they’re pretty easy to focus on because you can imagine how extra knowledge in a certain clinical area could make a difference to presentations that we see pretty commonly. And being brutally honest, making the effort to prepare and rehearse what we might do, on the off chance that we ever come across a major incident, can be difficult to motivate yourself to do.

But this is probably an area that investing a bit of time in, really thinking about how you would act in a major incident, could make a phenomenal difference to what may be one of the most, if not the most challenging clinical days of your career.

In the episode we run through Ten Second Triage (TST) and the Major Incident Triage Tool (MITT). They replace the previous triage methodologies and are to be implemented by the end of this month. We also cover some other aspects of planning and approach for being the first responder at a major incident, and we were lucky enough to gain some insights to the new triage process from Phil Cowburn, an EM & PHEM consultant who was involved in their development.

Once again we’d love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via X @TheResusRoom!

Simon, Rob & James

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:03.5	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:12.4	So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:15.7	I'm Simon Lang.
0:17.1	I'm Rob Fenwick.
0:18.0	And I'm James Haynes.
0:19.2	And we're back all together.
0:22.4	Rob has escaped Scotland. He's come back. he's done a bit of work and we're gonna record our next roadside to recess episode
0:28.0	Yeah, I'm sorry boys I am well I had other things planned to be honest with you that's the only reason I've got
0:34.0	But I have I have in all fairness I did listen and I've got some feedback
0:38.7	if you want it now or I can just put it online. But anyway, we'll probably just push on,
0:43.2	push on with the episode. Great job though, great job. No, it's all right, mate. We've got some
0:46.9	really nice feedback online, so we don't really need to hear anything that you've got to say
0:50.2	about the topic. We'll just... Sur surplus to requirements is the summary, I think.
0:55.9	Indeed, that's going on your headstone.
0:56.8	Right.
1:01.0	Well, before we get into it, and we're going to be talking about major incidents in this episode, a huge thanks to Zol Medical Corporation for partnering with us on the podcast
1:06.1	and making this all free, open access and available to you in their pursuit of excellent patient care.
1:14.3	I want you for listening to the podcast, make sure you go on to our CPD portal, either on the app or on the website.
1:19.8	Get a certificate for listening to this and pop it into your free CPD portfolio.
1:24.7	So enough of that.
1:26.2	Let's crack on with the episode. So here we go. As mentioned,
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