Major Incident Medical Management and Support

Carley, S. and Jones, K.M. Major Incident Medical Management and Support The Practical Approach in the Hospital by the Advanced Life Support Group. Malden, MA BMJ Books, 2005. 

TTie response should be consistent with the established approach as guided by the principles of major incident medical management and support (MIMMS). Figure 5.4 outlines the basic organisation of the command and control structure. Further information can be found in Chapter 2. 

MIMMS major incident medical management and support... 

Emergency operations center (EOC) physical location at which the coordination of information and resources to support incident management (on-scene operations) activities normally takes place an EOC may be a temporary facility or may be located in a more central or permanently established facility, perhaps at a higher level of organization within a jurisdiction, and may be organized by major functional disciplines (e.g fire, law enforcement, and medical services), by jurisdiction (e.g Federal, State, regional, tribal, city, county), or some combination thereof... 

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