title: Exercise London: a disaster exercise involving numerous casualties.
abstract: A large-scale disaster exercise was conducted to assess how one large community would handle such a situation - particularly, how it would deal with 150 casualties. The planning, undertaken by a subcommittee composed of representatives of all resource groups in the city, took more than a year. The deficiencies of the disaster plan detected during the exercise, which included a lack of trained personnel and various problems of communication, are now being corrected.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005392:First Aid; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012066:Relief Work; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014218:Triage; D014838:Volunteers; D000078329:Workforce