mass casualty
Disaster with fatalities
Mass casualty describes an incident producing more victims than local emergency services can handle with normal resources.
The term appears in disaster planning and emergency medicine: mass casualty event, mass casualty incident.
It doesn't specify a number—what overwhelms a rural clinic differs from what overwhelms a major trauma center.
The hospital activated its mass casualty protocol after the explosion.
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- active shooterArmed person attacking people
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- victimsThose who suffer harm
tragedy · wounded · fatalities · body count · explosion · attack · terrorist attack · school shooting · bombing · response · search and rescue · evacuation · survivors · carnage · paramedics · ambulance · chaos · sirens
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, floods
- Emergency MedicineEMT, emergency medicine, EMS, paramedic, paramedics
- air rescuemedevac, air ambulance, helicopter rescue, airlift, life flight
- EMS TrainingEMT certification, EMT training, CPR certification, CPR training, EMT
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- Triagetriage nurse, triage area, field triage, battlefield triage, telephone triage