As announced in multiple regional meetings, the region’s next Quarterly Triage Day (QTD) Drill will begin at 8:00 PM (2000 Hours) on May 9^th, and continue until 8 PM (2000 Hours) the next day, May 10^th.

·         Hospitals will monitor MCI radios from 8:00 pm to Midnight (2000-2400) on the first day and from 8 AM to Noon (0800-1200) the next day.  

·        EMS crews transporting patients to a hospital during these times should provide a brief message to the hospital via the MCI radio talk groups.

 

During this exercise every patient should receive a triage ribbon and a GREEN triage tag.  Hospitals will update their GDAHA Surgenet MCI page at least once every 8 hours, and practice entering patients into the OhTrac incident, which will be created by GDAHA for the drill.

·        We encourage every EMS agency to take a look at GDAHA Surgenet MCI page.  During an MCI, it’s a potentially invaluable tool to help your Transport Officer avoid overloading individual hospitals. 

·        You can view it at https://gdaha.surgenet.org, the same place you go to for Hospital Reroute information. 

·        If you don’t have a login (EMS agencies can use generic apparatus logins), or if your login doesn’t show the MCI section pictured on the attached QTD Flyer, just click the Request Access button.

 

There is more information in the attachments, including a review of the full QTD process, an MCI Communications Drill Job Aid, and a QTD flyer.  PLEASE POST THE FLYERS and help us get the word out to all line personnel, both in EMS and in EDs.

We updated the training materials in February.  If you haven’t seen them yet, go to http://gmvemsc.org/training-mcicomm.html, watch the video (the top video is for EMS, bottom video is for hospital personnel), then, regardless of which you watch, take the quiz at the bottom of the page to receive 1.5 Hours of Con Ed.

If you need additional GREEN triage tags or triage ribbons, contact GDAHA or Dayton MMRS. 

At the conclusion of your shift or the end of the drill, please take a couple of minutes to complete a feedback form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QTDFeb2019 or by scanning

 

Thank you for participating in QTD drills to help our region be better prepared for mass casualty incidents of all types.

 

 

 

                           David N. Gerstner

                           MMRS/RMRS/EP Coordinator

                           Department of Fire  I  City of Dayton

                           300 N. Main St.  I  Dayton, Ohio 45402

       Office 937.333.4551  I  Fax 937.333.4561  I  www.daytonohio.gov

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       Cell  937.776.4410 
                           david.gerstner@daytonohio.gov  I  http://DaytonMMRS.org