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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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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
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What is a Digital Data Logger? | Temperature Control Beyond the Refrigerator | Know When Temperatures Change

Nurse using cool cube medical cooler for vaccine transport IN THIS BI-WEEKLY ISSUE 🏥 What is a Digital Data Logger?🆒 Temperature Control Beyond the Refrigerator⌛ Know When Temperatures Change🦺 Organize Care Under Pressure NEWS • RESOURCES • TIPS WHAT IS A DIGITAL DATA LOGGER? What Happens Between Temperature Checks A current temperature reading tells you what is happening now. A digital data logger records Read More