Burn Surge Blitz TTX
On August 14, 2024, the Region VII Disaster Health Response Ecosystem held a tabletop exercise with its partner organizations. The purpose of this exercise was to review and validate the new regional burn plan currently under development.
Threat or Hazard Exercised:
Burn Mass Casualty Incident
Key Capabilities Exercised:
Improve Statewide and regional situational awareness
Develop metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities
Build a partnership for disaster health response
Align plans, policies, procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters
Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity
Objectives Exercised:
Identify the communication, coordination, and transfer process of burn patients (primary and secondary transfer) within the Midwest Burn Region during a large-scale burn event.
Discuss and define the plan and/or process for acquiring additional supplies for burn patients at frontline facilities during a prolonged delay to a burn center (> 72 hours).
Review existing burn care assets and identify gaps that may occur in a burn-related mass-casualty incident.
Structured triage from a transport perspective.
Telehealth support from a primary burn center and/or burn coordinating center.
Discuss alignment of HHS Region VII, American Burn Association (ABA), and R7DHRE during a large-scale burn event.