Airport, Academia, Industry, Military, State (AAIMS) Consortium to Test Military/Civilian Communications and FDDMTF Deployment for OCONUS Mass Casualties.

摘要

Military/Civilian Medical Mutual Agreements are rarely tested but would be needed for outside Continental US (OCONUS) Mass Casualty (MASCAL) events when military bed capacity was exceeded. This AAIMS project trained Civilian and Military emergency response personnel in NDMS and NIMS for MASCAL during 3 Table top Exercises (TTX) and a Functional Exercise (FX) which: (a) Tested implementation of Mutual Aid Agreement between WPAMC NDMS and Maryland EMS for MASCAL reception at BWI airport and access to civilian surge capacity bed in NDMS Hospitals; (b) Assessed field deployment of the FDDMTF for MASCAL triage; (c) Evaluated military/civilian communications; (d) Tested the usefulness of wireless video communications in promoting EOC Situational Awareness. AAIMS was the first Maryland NDMS exercises in more than 20 years. Significant levels of military-civilian collaboration were established and Inter Agency cooperation and planning optimized for activation of NDMS. AAIMS facilitated revisions of the Maryland Emergency Operations Plan to Include the NDMS activation plan across all key emergency response State Agencies. Maryland is now set to become the first state to have the NDMS plan incorporated into their Governor's Emergency Operations Plan. The FX After action Report made task specific recommendations and suggested three working groups to implement these recommendations. A future full scale NDMS exercise is planned centered in Maryland.