title: [Models of management in mass disasters and critical situations].
abstract: Good organization and coordination of emergency services are one of the most crucial factors, which influences the number of survivors and severity of incident overall health and structural long-term damages. Different studies showed that poor leadership is the main cause for poor intervention results at mass casualty incidents. This article briefly presents French, American, and English incident command systems at mass casualty incident and other crisis. If the incident command want to achieve the best intervention results then they, independently from command level and formal system, should establish a proper level of flexibility, controllable span of command, use of common terminology, effective use and accountability of resources, integrated and available telecommunications with profound exchange of information and intelligence.
authors.affiliation: Klinicni center Ljubljana, Resevalna postaja.
authors.forename: Andrej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fink
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans