Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist. Bringing calm to chaos. Tweets mine, not advice. I speak & teach about #SpontaneousResponder & #DisasterGap.
Apr 15, 2023 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
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.