System and Method for Casualty Treatment and Evacuation in Response to an Emergency Situation

Abstract

A system and method for assisting casualties, categorizing survivors, and communicating pertinent casualty and survivor information to external emergency response teams during a crisis situation. A kit may be provided that comprises a variety of emergency medical supplies, instructional casualty treatment information, and a plurality of casualty placards. Able-bodied survivors with no medical training may use the kit and its contents to properly prioritize and provide basic emergency medical assistance to help reduce casualty mortality during a crisis situation. Instructions and method steps contained within each kit teach each user to first fortify a safe haven, attended to casualty bleeding issues, attend to casualty airway issues, place casualties in a recovery position while continually reassuring and reassessing the casualties, and finally notifying or otherwise communicating casualty number and status to emergency responders. Responders may utilize the casualty information to most appropriately formulate and implement their response strategy.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 360,549, filed with the USPTO on Jul. 1, 2010, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not applicable.INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED ON A COMPACT DISK[0003]Not applicable.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]1. Field of the Invention[0005]The present invention generally relates to treating casualties and communicating casualty information during an emergency situation, more specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method for assisting casualties, categorizing casualty status, and communicating pertinent casualty information to external emergency response teams during an emergency situation.[0006]2. Background Art[0007]In an emergency situation, access to information about the emergency location and the condition of survivors therein is crit...

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Problems solved by technology

The emergency may be a natural disaster, such as a flood, earthquake, tornado, and the like.

Response personnel at the scene may be unfamiliar with the emergency location and may have to question those familiar with the location, assuming they are available, to gain information necessary to appropriately respond to the emergency.

This may require delaying emergency response actions while information is gathered at the scene, or otherwise.

While locations are sometimes equipped with video surveillance systems for internal personnel, such as security guards, such systems are often monitored from a central monitoring position within the location and the scope of the system may not include areas having hidden or injured survivors and casualties.

These systems often times are useless to response personnel during an emergency unless the responding personnel are able to access the central monitoring position and the systems are set up to monitor specific locations of interest during the emergency.

Typically, such video surveillance information cannot be efficiently communicated to other response personnel or any such gathered information is either inadequate or insufficient.

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