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    "pk": 61782,
    "title": "Mass Casualty Management in the Emergency Department – Lessons Learned in Beirut, Lebanon - Part II",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The first article in this series (Part I) discussed the abundant exposure of our emergency department (ED) to mass casualty incidents (MCIs), particularly over the past 14 years. This experience led us to define practical strategies that emergency departments can use to develop their own MCI response plans. In the first part, our main focus was to highlight the abrupt nature of MCIs and the subsequent need to use disaster drills. Additionally, we discussed the importance of having a tiered response and activation as well as other lessons learned from our experience to maximize the preparedness of the emergency department to receive mass casualty.In this article, we discuss the optimal way to triage patients. In addition, we will tackle the best methods for documentation and communication, which are vital yet overlooked during mass casualty incidents. We will also elaborate on what we learned from dealing with outbursts of anger and violence in the ED during MCIs and how to ensure the safety of the ED staff.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "disaster"
        },
        {
            "word": "disaster management"
        },
        {
            "word": "emergency department"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emergency management"
        },
        {
            "word": "Mass Casualty Incident"
        },
        {
            "word": "triage"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Special Contribution",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mazen",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "El Sayed",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eveline",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Hitti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mohamad Ali",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cheaito",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tim",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Davis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Amin",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Kazzi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-12-12T08:22:34Z",
    "date_accepted": "2019-12-12T08:22:34Z",
    "date_published": "2020-04-20T08:00:00+01:00",
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