A mass casualty drill was held Thursday at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital.
While mass casualty incidents are top of mind after Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas, the idea for the drill came about after the Pulse nightclub shooting and has been in the works for months.
Several departments within the hospital participated in the drill, the purpose of which was to train and educate staff on how to manage a large volume of patients and test the hospital’s response.
The scenario used in Thursday’s drill included victims with blunt and penetrating trauma.
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UPMC holds training like Thursday’s on a regular basis and has learned a number of things because of them.
“A lot of what we’ve learned in the past are specific to how we communicate throughout different parts of the hospital when there is a lot of stress on the system, what resources we need to bring to bear and how we coordinate all these different groups of providers,” Dr. Adam Tobias said.
Previous training has been done for natural disasters, industrial accidents and bioterrorism, among others.
In addition to UPMC Presbyterian, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC and UPMC Shadyside Hospital participated in Thursday’s drill.
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