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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. ImageImageImage
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.
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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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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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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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