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Register Now - Teaching Mass Casualty Triage: Implementing the new MUCC Instructional Guidelines
EMS Focus webinar hosted by NHTSA’s Office of EMS on February 7 at 1pm EST
Mass casualty incidents usually don't obey jurisdictional boundaries, with responses often involving multiple agencies, regions and even states. Several years ago, to help ensure consistency when responding to these incidents, a group of experts created the Model Uniform Core Criteria for Mass Casualty Incident Triage, or MUCC. While not a system of triage itself, MUCC created a standard set of guidelines that all mass casualty systems should follow. Upon the recommendations of the National EMS Advisory Council and the Federal Interagency Committee on EMS, instructional guidelines were then developed to help EMS educators teach the basics of MUCC during initial and continuing education for all levels of EMS personnel.
In this webinar, you'll hear from Dr. E. Brooke Learner, a former EMS field provider and researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin who served as lead investigator for the development of MUCC; Kandra Strauss-Riggs with the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, which partnered with NHTSA to develop the new instructional guidelines; and Leaugeay Barnes, an EMS educator who piloted the use of the instructional guidelines. EMS educators and training officers, state regulators and anyone interested in the medical response to major incidents won't want to miss this chance to learn more about improving coordination during these incidents.
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