Luca Ragazzoni

TL;DR: It is suggested that teams often are not competent during the response phase because of education and training deficiencies and foreign medical teams and medically related nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) do not always provide expected capabilities and services.

TL;DR: Virtual reality simulation proved to be a valuable tool, equivalent to live simulation, to test medical students’ abilities to perform mass casualty triage and to detect improvement in such skills after a teaching session.

TL;DR: A three-step operational learning framework is proposed that could be used for EMTs globally to ensure professional competence and license to practice, support adaptation of technical and non-technical professional capacities into the low-resource and emergency context and prepare for an effective team performance in the field.

TL;DR: This study reviewed the available surge science literature specifically to guide an emergency department’s surge structural response using a translational science approach to answer the question: How does the concept of sudden onset mass casualty incident surge capability apply to the process to expand COVID-19 pandemic surge structure response.

TL;DR: Participation in an electronic disaster simulation using the disastermed.ca software package appears to increase the speed at which medical students triage simulated patients and increase their score on a structured command-and-control performance indicator instrument.