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CAPT Alvin Lee
Concept of Forward Movement of Patients
CAPT Alvin Lee, USPHS
National Disaster Medical System
CAPT Alvin Lee
Cascadia Subduction Zone• Every 500 years, 200-1000• 9.0 plus after shocks• Brooks Penninsula to Cape Mendocino
– 800 mi
• Tsunami 30 ft. high within minutes– 10-12 hr sequence
• 101 impassible-roads, railways, runways• Tall bldgs, bridges susceptible to long waves• Landslides isolate coastal communities for
weeks
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Major Components of NDMS
• Medical Response-Teams
• Definitive Medical Care
• Patient Evacuation-FCC’s
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Cascadia TTX forecast needs• Priorities for the first 72 hours
– Lifesaving, communication, utilities– Roads, bridges– Debris removal for responders
• Priorities for the first 30 days– Temp shelter, food, water, medical care– Repair transportation routes
• Priorities for 30 days to 6 months– Continue support and infrastructure recovery
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“If you don’t have a plan, that’s one less thing to go wrong”.
-S. Benson NYC OEM
–
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Search and Rescue
Base of Operations(SARBOO)
TemporaryMedical Staging and
Operations Area(TMOSA)
New OrleansHospital
Shelter
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
New OrleansCatastrophic Response Plan
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Search and Rescue
Base of Operations(SARBOO)
TemporaryMedical Staging and
Operations Area(TMOSA)
New OrleansHospitals
Shelter
FULL
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
Lilly Pad
SpontaneousTMOSA
(Causeway)
SpontaneousTMOSA
(Superdome)
Self Referrals
Self Referrals
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Initial Response is Local?
• 911
• Hospital Control
• National Guard assets
• EMAC
• Private sector
• Who ya gonna call??
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CatastrophicIncident Supplement
to the National Response Plan
• Mission-evac ill or injured to reception facilities
• Assumptions: limited evac within 96 hours
• State/local transport to pt collection pt
• Various pt tracking systems need coord.
• GPMRC single pt movement mgr
• No preferred mode
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Catastrophic Incident Supplementto the National Response Plan
• FEMA establishes Fed mob ctr
• State and local collect and transport to hubs
• NDMS Med. Inter-agency coord gp
• TRANSCOM coord movement from collection points to airfields, etc
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Catastrophic Incident Supplementto the National Response Plan
Response limitations
• Federal capability limited with non-amb pt
• Contaminated/contagious pts
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DoD Responsibilities• Alert GPMRC• Activate FCC’s• Manage and evacuate to NDMS pt
reception areas• In coord with DOT transport support
agencies, personnel, equipment/supplies• Logistical support• Provide active duty medical and other
missions including aeromedical evac.
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Common thoughts
• Command and Control
• Communication
• Special needs
• Security
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Who needs to go?
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CAPT Alvin Lee
What do you have to work with?
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CAPT Alvin Lee
CAPT Alvin Lee
Questions ?Questions ?
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From the Audience
• Tribal issues?– Colville, Warm Springs
• Rural Wyoming?
• East Coast– KY, SC
• Public Health
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CAPT Alvin Lee, USPHS
Emergency Coordinator, Region X
National Disaster Medical System
130 228th St SW
Bothell, WA 98021
(425) 482-3708