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Rabies PEP Demand is Rising | Put Color to Work in Your Workflow | Burn Supplies Where the Team Expects Them

Loading vaccine into a cool cube IN THIS BI-WEEKLY ISSUE 🏥 Rabies PEP Demand is Rising 🆒 Put Color to Work in Your Workflow ⌛ Burn Supplies Where the Team Expects Them 🦺 Expand Emergency Care Capability with Structure NEWS • RESOURCES • TIPS RABIES PEP DEMAND IS RISING Cold Chain Readiness Belongs in the Response Plan CDC issued a nationwide Read More
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Start with the Capability, Not the Equipment | When Staff Changes, the Pack-Out Shouldn’t | Expand Care Without Rebuilding the Response

Moving patients in a mass casualty response training IN THIS BI-WEEKLY ISSUE 🏥 Start with the Capability, Not the Equipment🆒 When Staff Changes, the Pack-Out Shouldn't⌛ Expand Care Without Rebuilding the Response🦺 Put the Right Supplies Together Before Deployment NEWS • RESOURCES • TIPS START WITH THE CAPABILITY, NOT THE EQUIPMENT Build the Case Before You Buy A surge exercise exposes a gap: Read More
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What HPP Funding Will Actually Cover for Equipment

Moving patients in a mass casualty response training What HPP Funding Will Actually Cover for Equipment The surge exercise ended with a clear problem. The hospital could expand patient care beyond its normal footprint, but the team had to pull supplies from several storage areas, rebuild treatment stations, and lean on the few people who knew where everything was kept. The obvious question Read More
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Why Resource Accountability Breaks Down | The High-Tech Insulation Behind That Silver Panel | Expand Patient Capacity with Structure

Emergency preparedness team member taking inventory during a preparedness exercise IN THIS BI-WEEKLY ISSUE 🏥 Why Resource Accountability Breaks Down🆒 The High-Tech Insulation Behind That Silver Panel⌛ Expand Patient Capacity with Structure🦺 Familiarity Matters Before Deployment NEWS • RESOURCES • TIPS WHY RESOURCE ACCOUNTABILITY BREAKS DOWN Knowing What You Own Is Not Enough Emergency operations move quickly. Resources change location, personnel check equipment in and Read More
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Why Resource Accountability Breaks Down During Emergencies

Incident Command center in use in a mobile response scenario Why Resource Accountability Breaks Down During Emergencies It’s an hour into a mass-casualty response. Patients are moving through triage, treatment areas are filling, and supplies that were neatly staged at the start of the day have already shifted several times. A child arrives with a compromised airway. The question comes… "Where's the pediatric airway kit?" Read More