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10 years ago today, I experienced a bomb scene. I discovered every first aid & disaster course is incomplete. I am committed to amplifying the most-overlooked, most-important interval that could improve patient care. It is time to optimize improvised care in the #disastergap. 
Also called #caregap, the care within is initiated by #spontaneousresponders. Whether trained or untrained, spontaneous responders step up from within a scene itself, doing the best they can, with whatever they have available, to care for others, while experiencing scene hazards.
#SpontaneousResponders are not #firstresponders. They will not be invited to a debriefing. They also are not bystanders and may go home with scene trauma or blood on their clothes. The most overlooked group of rescuers in the most overlooked disaster interval, the #caregap.
Practical thoughts on #SpontaneousResponders
It's important to acknowledge that the first people to respond to any incident will often be the lay person who uses their initiative; the relative, the work colleague, the fellow commuter
Day to day, this can be the difference
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It's important to acknowledge that the first people to respond to any incident will often be the lay person who uses their initiative; the relative, the work colleague, the fellow commuter
Day to day, this can be the difference
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We will all meet / have met a patient who was saved by a non-uniformed #SpontaneousResponder
Perhaps via public access defibrillation or good first aid
This is the system working! Amazing projects like @GoodSamApp/@ThecitizenAID show us how
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Perhaps via public access defibrillation or good first aid
This is the system working! Amazing projects like @GoodSamApp/@ThecitizenAID show us how
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But what about when the incident is less 'routine'
Think big
Explosions, terrorist attacks & major incidents all come with a #TherapeuticVacuum. A clinical void where formal incident response is delayed by ongoing threat / due to the demands of co-ordination prior to access
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Think big
Explosions, terrorist attacks & major incidents all come with a #TherapeuticVacuum. A clinical void where formal incident response is delayed by ongoing threat / due to the demands of co-ordination prior to access
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