- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The trauma epidemic
- Pre-hospital emergency care
- Initial assessment
- The trauma team
- Airway management in trauma
- Assessment of breathing—thoracic injuries
- Circulatory assessment
- Head injuries
- Radiology in trauma
- Tertiary survey
- Spinal injury
- Abdominal trauma
- Pelvic injuries
- Limb injuries
- Crush injury
- Vascular trauma
- Eye trauma
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Damage control
- Paediatric trauma
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Burn injuries
- Penetrating torso injury
- Ballistic and blast injuries
- Chemical, biological, and radiation injuries
- Critical care issues in trauma
- Trauma retrieval
- Psychological aspects of trauma
- Rehabilitation after trauma
- Commonly missed injuries
- Research in trauma
- Bariatric trauma
- Major incidents
- Table 33.4. 2 × 2 Triage Table
(p. 547) Major incidents
- Chapter:
- (p. 547) Major incidents
- Author(s):
Jason Smith
, Ian Greaves
, and Keith M Porter
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199543328.003.0033
Definitions and context 548
Command and control 552
Safety 556
Communication 558
Assessment 559
Triage 560
Treatment 564
Transport 566
Further reading 569
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 defines a major incident in the United Kingdom as:
An event or a situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the UK, the environment of a place in the UK, or war or terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security of the UK....
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- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The trauma epidemic
- Pre-hospital emergency care
- Initial assessment
- The trauma team
- Airway management in trauma
- Assessment of breathing—thoracic injuries
- Circulatory assessment
- Head injuries
- Radiology in trauma
- Tertiary survey
- Spinal injury
- Abdominal trauma
- Pelvic injuries
- Limb injuries
- Crush injury
- Vascular trauma
- Eye trauma
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Damage control
- Paediatric trauma
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Burn injuries
- Penetrating torso injury
- Ballistic and blast injuries
- Chemical, biological, and radiation injuries
- Critical care issues in trauma
- Trauma retrieval
- Psychological aspects of trauma
- Rehabilitation after trauma
- Commonly missed injuries
- Research in trauma
- Bariatric trauma
- Major incidents
- Table 33.4. 2 × 2 Triage Table
