Advanced search
Publication Cover
Prehospital Emergency Care Volume 18, 2014 - Issue 3
Submit an article Journal homepage
1,049
Views
51
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Focus on Mass Casualty Incidents

Epidemiology of Mass Casualty Incidents in the United States

Ellen SchenkCorrespondence[email protected]
, MPH, ASPPH/NHTSA,
Gamunu Wijetunge
, MPM, NRP,
N. Clay Mann
, PhD, MS,
E. Brooke Lerner
, PhD,
Anders Longthorne
&
Drew Dawson
Pages 408-416 | Published online: 27 Mar 2014

Citations (51)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (2)

E. Brooke Lerner, Lorin R. Browne, Jonathan R. Studnek, N. Clay Mann, Mengtao Dai, Christopher K. Hoffman, Diane Pilkey, Kathleen M. Adelgais, Kathleen M. Brown, Joshua B. Gaither, Julie C. Leonard, Christian Martin-Gill, Daniel K. Nishijima, Sylvia Owusu Ansah, Zaeem S. Shah & Manish I. Shah. (2022) A Novel Use of NEMSIS to Create a PECARN-Specific EMS Patient Registry. Prehospital Emergency Care 26:4, pages 484-491.
Read now
N. Clay Mann, Lauren Kane, Mengtao Dai & Karen Jacobson. (2015) Description of the 2012 NEMSIS Public-Release Research Dataset. Prehospital Emergency Care 19:2, pages 232-240.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (49)

Cynthia J. Susai, Nathan J. Alcasid, Kian C. Banks & Gregory P. Victorino. (2024) Multiple Casualty Incidents at a Level I Trauma Center: A 15-year Analysis. Journal of Surgical Research 295, pages 487-492.
Crossref
Shayne Gue, Stephanie Cohen, Maria Tassone, Ayanna Walker, Andy Little, Martin Morales-Cruz, Casey McGillicuddy, David Lebowitz, Robert Pell, Ariel Vera, Steven Nazario, Darielys Mejias, Andrew Bobbett, Drake Dixon, Anines Quinones & Latha Ganti. (2023) Disaster day: a simulation-based competition for educating emergency medicine residents and medical students on disaster medicine. International Journal of Emergency Medicine 16:1.
Crossref
Helal Uddin, Md Khalid Hasan & Rafael Castro-Delgado. (2023) Effects of mass casualty incidents on anxiety, depression and PTSD among doctors and nurses: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open 13:9, pages e075478.
Crossref
Aditya C. Shekhar, Michael McCartin & Ira J. Blumen. (2023) Frequency of Mass Casualty Incidents (MCIs) Responded to by Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS). Air Medical Journal 42:5, pages 384-386.
Crossref
Fayez Alruqi, Elom K. Aglago, Elaine Cole & Karim Brohi. (2023) Factors Associated With Delayed Pre-Hospital Times During Trauma-Related Mass Casualty Incidents: A Systematic Review. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 17.
Crossref
Johan L. Heemskerk, Kingsley O. Abode-Iyamah, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa & Eric S. Weinstein. (2021) Prehospital Response Time of the Emergency Medical Service during Mass Casualty Incidents and the Effect of Triage: A Retrospective Study. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 16:3, pages 1091-1098.
Crossref
Anip Joshi, Jad Abdelsattar, Alejandra Castro-Varela, Chase J. Wehrle, Christian Cullen, Kevin Pei, Tania K. Arora, Tracey A. Dechert & Rondi Kauffmann. (2022) Incorporating mass casualty incidents training in surgical education program. Global Surgical Education - Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 1:1.
Crossref
Jana M. Binkley & Kevin M. Kemp. (2022) Mobilization of Resources and Emergency Response on the National Scale. Surgical Clinics of North America 102:1, pages 169-180.
Crossref
James Tankel & Sharon Einav. (2022) Preparing for mass casualty events despite COVID-19. British Journal of Anaesthesia 128:2, pages e104-e108.
Crossref
Edward Chu, Nurhayati Lubis & Roger Alcock. (2022) Improving mass casualty planning in low resource settings: Médecins Sans Frontières and International Committee of the Red Cross perspective. British Journal of Anaesthesia 128:2, pages e92-e96.
Crossref
Patrick Drews, Maximilian Berger, Johannes Sautter & Annika Rohde. (2021) Lernen und üben wir das Richtige?Do we train the right things right?. Notfall + Rettungsmedizin 25:1, pages 19-29.
Crossref
ChittaRanjan Mohanty, RakeshVadakkethil Radhakrishnan, Shine Stephen, Mantu Jain, AshaP Shetty, Alwin Issac, IjasMuhammed Shaji & Sebastian Chakola. (2022) Epidemiology of mass casualty incidents in a tertiary care trauma center in eastern India: A retrospective observational study. Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine 22:2, pages 96.
Crossref
Ludovica Viola, Emanuele Lagazzi, Giulia Ballardini, Alberto Drogo, Michele Bonetti, Eva Marrone, Marco Chirico & Serena Ricci. (2021) Design of a system to detect the force applied by tourniquets in a manikin’s limb. Design of a system to detect the force applied by tourniquets in a manikin’s limb.
Edward Carlton & Ellen J Weber. (2021) Lessons learnt in ethical publishing from mass casualty events: the Manchester bombing experience. Emergency Medicine Journal 38:10, pages 744-745.
Crossref
Kaitlin Woods, J.W. Awori Hayanga, Jeffrey Cannon, Wesley Lemons, Michael Philips, Ashley Schmidt, Roosevelt Boh, Kinza Noor, Lisa Fornaresio, Dylan Thibault, PS Martin, Alison Wilson & Heather K. Hayanga. (2021) Staffing in a Level 1 Trauma Center: Quantifying Capacity for Preparedness. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, pages 1-7.
Crossref
Carsten Lott, Anatolij Truhlář, Anette Alfonzo, Alessandro Barelli, Violeta González-Salvado, Jochen Hinkelbein, Jerry P. Nolan, Peter Paal, Gavin D. Perkins, Karl-Christian Thies, Joyce Yeung, David A. Zideman & Jasmeet Soar. (2021) Kreislaufstillstand unter besonderen UmständenCardiac arrest under special circumstances. Notfall + Rettungsmedizin 24:4, pages 447-523.
Crossref
Anne Siri Johnsen. 2021. Helicopter emergency medical services in sudden-onset major incidents ; Patterns of use. Helicopter emergency medical services in sudden-onset major incidents ; Patterns of use.
Carsten Lott, Anatolij Truhlář, Annette Alfonzo, Alessandro Barelli, Violeta González-Salvado, Jochen Hinkelbein, Jerry P. Nolan, Peter Paal, Gavin D. Perkins, Karl-Christian Thies, Joyce Yeung, David A. Zideman, Jasmeet Soar, Gamal Eldin Abbas Khalifa, Efrén Álvarez, Roberta Barelli, Joost J.L.M. Bierens, Bernd Boettiger, Guttorm Brattebø, Douglas Browne, Hermann Brugger, Tomasz Darocha, Charles D. Deakin, Joel Dunning, Silvija Hunyadi-Anticevic, Rudolph W. Koster, David J. Lockey, Mathieu Pasquier & Jan Schmitz. (2021) European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Cardiac arrest in special circumstances. Resuscitation 161, pages 152-219.
Crossref
George Koutitas, Scott Smith & Grayson Lawrence. (2020) Performance evaluation of AR/VR training technologies for EMS first responders. Virtual Reality 25:1, pages 83-94.
Crossref
Bruria Adini & Kobi Peleg. 2021. Handbook Integrated Care. Handbook Integrated Care 1065 1074 .
Abigail W. Cheng, Patrick McCreesh, Seth Moffatt, Ryan Maziarz, Duncan Vos & Joshua Mastenbrook. (2020) Going vertical: triage flags improve extraction times for priority patients. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open 1:6, pages 1185-1193.
Crossref
Lujia Tang, Shuming Pan, Ying Chen, Hongmei Tang & Xuejing Li. (2019) Research on National Disaster Life Support Course in China. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 14:5, pages 577-584.
Crossref
S. V. Garian. (2020) Стан системи антиоксидантного захисту в піддослідних тварин внаслідок модельованої поєднаної абдоміно-скелетної травми та ішемії-реперфузії нижніх кінцівок. Шпитальна хірургія. Журнал імені Л. Я. Ковальчука:4, pages 42-49.
Crossref
Roni Gagin, Neta HaGani & David Ratner. 2020. WSES Handbook of Mass Casualties Incidents Management. WSES Handbook of Mass Casualties Incidents Management 67 77 .
David W. Callaway, Reed Smith & Sean M. Fox. 2020. Damage Control Resuscitation. Damage Control Resuscitation 303 319 .
George Koutitas, Scott Smith, Grayson Lawrence & Keith Noble. 2020. Smart Cities in Application. Smart Cities in Application 49 66 .
Sara B Donevant, Erik R Svendsen, Jane V Richter, Abbas S Tavakoli, Jean B r Craig, Nicholas D Boltin, Homayoun Valafar, Salvatore Robert DiNardi & Joan M Culley. (2019) Designing and executing a functional exercise to test a novel informatics tool for mass casualty triage. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 26:10, pages 1091-1098.
Crossref
Adelle Dora Monteblanco & Ophra Leyser-Whalen. (2023) Thinking outside of the Hospital and Nurse-Midwife Paradigms: A Qualitative Examination of Midwifery in Times of Natural Disasters. International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters 37:2, pages 138-173.
Crossref
George Koutitas, Kenneth Scott Smith, Grayson Lawrence, Vangelis Metsis, Clayton Stamper, Mark Trahan & Ted Lehr. (2019) A virtual and augmented reality platform for the training of first responders of the ambulance bus. A virtual and augmented reality platform for the training of first responders of the ambulance bus.
Eric McCoy, Rola Alrabah, Warren Weichmann, Mark Langdorf, Cameron Ricks, Bharath Chakravarthy, Craig Anderson & Shahram Lotfipour. (2019) Feasibility of Telesimulation and Google Glass for Mass Casualty Triage Education and Training. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 20:3, pages 512-519.
Crossref
Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Justin McCarty, Samir Shah, Zain Hashmi, Edward Caterson, Scott Goldberg, Craig Goolsby, Adil Haider & Eric Goralnick. (2019) Building community resilience: A scalable model for hemorrhage-control training at a mass gathering site, using the RE-AIM framework. Surgery 165:4, pages 795-801.
Crossref
Roy Lei, Michael D. Swartz, John A. Harvin, Bryan A. Cotton, John B. Holcomb, Charles E. Wade & Sasha D. Adams. (2019) Stop the Bleed Training empowers learners to act to prevent unnecessary hemorrhagic death. The American Journal of Surgery 217:2, pages 368-372.
Crossref
Eric Goralnick, Muhammad A. Chaudhary, Justin C. McCarty, Edward J. Caterson, Scott A. Goldberg, Juan P. Herrera-Escobar, Meghan McDonald, Stuart Lipsitz & Adil H. Haider. (2018) Effectiveness of Instructional Interventions for Hemorrhage Control Readiness for Laypersons in the Public Access and Tourniquet Training Study (PATTS). JAMA Surgery 153:9, pages 791.
Crossref
Lauren Wiesner, Shane Kappler, Alex Shuster, Michael DeLuca, James Ott & Eric Glasser. (2018) Disaster Training in 24 Hours: Evaluation of a Novel Medical Student Curriculum in Disaster Medicine. The Journal of Emergency Medicine 54:3, pages 348-353.
Crossref
Jungeun Kim, Chu Hyun Kim, Sang Do Shin & Ju Ok Park. (2017) Prehospital Response Time Delays for Emergency Patients in Events of Concurrent Mass Casualty Incidents. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 12:1, pages 94-100.
Crossref
Samuel E. Shartar, Brooks L. Moore & Lori M. Wood. (2017) Developing a Mass Casualty Surge Capacity Protocol for Emergency Medical Services to Use for Patient Distribution. Southern Medical Journal 110:12, pages 792-795.
Crossref
Steven G. Schauer, Michael D. April, Erica Simon, Joseph K. Maddry, Robert CarterIIIIII & Robert A. Delorenzo. (2017) Prehospital Interventions During Mass-Casualty Events in Afghanistan: A Case Analysis. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 32:4, pages 465-468.
Crossref
Bruria Adini & Kobi Peleg. 2017. Handbook Integrated Care. Handbook Integrated Care 439 448 .
Rafael Castro Delgado, Cecilia Naves Gómez, Tatiana Cuartas Álvarez & Pedro Arcos González. (2016) An epidemiological approach to mass casualty incidents in the Principality of Asturias (Spain). Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 24:1.
Crossref
Spencer C. Kohn, Ewart de Visser, Gershon Weltman, Nichole Bosson, Marianne Gausche-Hill & Ross Donaldson. (2016) Emergency Medical Team Coordination in Mass Casualty Incidents: A study of the Los Angeles Emergency Medical System. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 60:1, pages 523-527.
Crossref
Mark X. Cicero, Frank Overly, Linda Brown, Jorge Yarzebski, Barbara Walsh, Veronika Shabanova, Marc Auerbach, Antonio Riera, Kathleen Adelgais, Garth Meckler, David C. Cone & Carl R. Baum. (2016) Comparing the Accuracy of Three Pediatric Disaster Triage Strategies: A Simulation-Based Investigation. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 10:2, pages 253-260.
Crossref
Mazen El Sayed, Hani Tamim & N. Clay Mann. (2016) Description of Medication Administration by Emergency Medical Services during Mass-casualty Incidents in the United States. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 31:2, pages 141-149.
Crossref
Ju Ok Park, Sang Do Shin, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong & Jungeun Kim. (2016) Epidemiology of Emergency Medical Services-Assessed Mass Casualty Incidents according to Causes. Journal of Korean Medical Science 31:3, pages 449.
Crossref
Abraham Nilsson, Kristian Åslund, Maria Lampi, Helene Nilsson & Carl-Oscar Jonson. (2015) Improved and sustained triage skills in firemen after a short training intervention. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 23:1.
Crossref
A. Truhlář, C.D. Deakin, J. Soar, G.E.A. Khalifa, A. Alfonzo, J.J.L.M. Bierens, G. Brattebø, H. Brugger, J. Dunning, S. Hunyadi-Antičević, R.W. Koster, D.J. Lockey, C. Lott, P. Paal, G.D. Perkins, C. Sandroni, K.-C. Thies, D.A. Zideman & J.P. Nolan. (2015) Kreislaufstillstand in besonderen SituationenCardiac arrest in special circumstances. Notfall + Rettungsmedizin 18:8, pages 833-903.
Crossref
Ashley J. Martin, Christine M. Lohse & Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer. (2015) A Descriptive Analysis of Prehospital Response to Hazardous Materials Events. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 30:5, pages 466-471.
Crossref
Anatolij Truhlář, Charles D. Deakin, Jasmeet Soar, Gamal Eldin Abbas Khalifa, Annette Alfonzo, Joost J.L.M. Bierens, Guttorm Brattebø, Hermann Brugger, Joel Dunning, Silvija Hunyadi-Antičević, Rudolph W. Koster, David J. Lockey, Carsten Lott, Peter Paal, Gavin D. Perkins, Claudio Sandroni, Karl-Christian Thies, David A. Zideman, Jerry P. Nolan, Alessandro Barelli, Bernd W. Böttiger, Marios Georgiou, Anthony J. Handley, Thomas Lindner, Mark J. Midwinter, Koenraad G. Monsieurs & Wolfgang A. Wetsch. (2015) European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015. Resuscitation 95, pages 148-201.
Crossref
Joshua J. Strommen, Scott M. Waterman, Christopher A. Mitchell & Brian F. Grogan. (2015) 2014 Fort Hood, Texas, mass casualty incident: reviews and perspectives. Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine 8:3, pages 298-303.
Crossref
Mazen El Sayed, Hani Tamim & N. Clay Mann. (2015) Description of procedures performed on patients by emergency medical services during mass casualty incidents in the United States. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 33:8, pages 1030-1036.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Aurora. Learn more.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.