TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Mass Casualty Management A1 - Redlener, Michael A. A1 - Kaufman, Bradley A2 - Cooney, Derek R. PY - 2016 T2 - Cooney's EMS Medicine AB - A mass casualty incident (MCI) is an event that produces or has the potential to produce multiple casualties requiring medical care. The goal of prehospital care is to provide the optimal level of care to save the most lives and minimize the morbidity of this type of event. For the purposes of this chapter, we will further define the term mass casualty as an event that challenges the everyday response capacity of a local response system requiring a change in mode of operation. This chapter will attempt to distill the essential elements of prehospital mass casualty management and planning. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2022/06/27 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126794830 ER -