A reference guide to disaster response assets available at the federal, national, regional, and state levels for responders and preparedness professionals across the WRAP-EM region. Produced by the WRAP-EM Deployable Assets focus group, the catalog covers federal teams and programs (DMAT, TCCT, DMORT, IMAT, US&R, and others), national and ..

What is Psychological First Aid (PFA)?Psychological First Aid is a concept thatcan be traced to an article published by theAmerican Psychiatric Association in 1954which acknowledged the need for an acuteintervention to alleviate human stress “of aseverity and quality not generally encountered… due to the ‘forces of nature or from ..

Mass casualty incidents involving children create high-pressure conditions that demand rapid triage, coordinated patient movement, and adaptation by teams who may not routinely care for pediatric patients. This WRAP-EM guide curates practical, ready-to-use tools to support just-in-time response, strengthen planning and exercises, and guide teams through pediatric-specific challenges—each link ..

This document provides a high-level summary of a discussion-based exercise and aggregated participant feedback. It is intended to highlight collaboration, capacity-building, and Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management (WRAP-EM) technical assistance. It is not an after-action report and does not include jurisdiction-specific operational details, sensitive procedures, or improvement-plan content.

Active shooter and active threat incidents create sudden, high-consequence environments that overwhelm normal operations, place children and adults at immediate risk, and demand rapid, coordinated clinical and operational action.

This updated guidance is designed to support emergency departments and non-pediatric clinicians caring for children with respiratory illness during periods of pediatric surge, limited specialty access, or while awaiting transfer to higher levels of care. The document serves as a concise, evidence-based reference to assist with rapid clinical decision-making ..

Use the curated resources in this Guide for Just-in-Time (JIT) clinical care, strengthening planning and exercises, and promoting staff resilience. The Guide offers links directly to an operationally useful tool — no searching required.

Curated list of resources to support Just-in-Time clinical decision-making, improve burn surge planning and exercises, and enhance response coordination across the healthcare system.

An overview of countermeasures for adults following a radiological and nuclear incident. The second in a series of publications that can also be used as just-in-time references.

Evidence-based guide providing pediatric-specific checklists, tools, and HICS integration for safe hospital evacuation, transport, reunification, and regional coordination.

Pediatric High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) Protocols Pearls & Pitfalls of HFNC and Patient Placement during Pediatric Bronchiolitis Surge. HFNC Protocol Details are IMPORTANT to know when placing pediatric bronchiolitis patients!

This document provides guidance for physicians caring for pediatric patients with respiratory illness in emergency departments while awaiting transfer or the opening of more high-level pediatric beds. It provides basic clinical guidance for respiratory care for children to help in these circumstances.

A introduction to building a Community Engagement Network between healthcare and community organizations, agencies, and partners. Also includes a list of examples and a sheet to be used by planners to identify and list Network partners.

The Pediatric Patient Evacuation Tool is a Microsoft Excel-based resource designed to quickly capture and categorize the care requirements of neonatal and pediatric patients during emergency evacuations. It integrates with TRAIN® Tool levels and pediatric levels of care, enabling clinical care providers to input patient details in under one ..

A guide outlining legal and policy issues related to public health emergency declarations and healthcare response to disaster. Included are legal considerations from the recent disasters, licensing, credentialing, and privileging, telehealth, idemnification, family reunification, data, etc.

An FAQ sheet describing the Burn Mass Casualty Incident (BMCI) MedPic App. This app is for physicians who receive burn patients in a mass casualty scenario to confer with burn providers at a Burn Center within the American Burn Association (ABA) Western Region Burn Disaster Consortium (WRBDC) utilizing images.

Our Mission WRAP-EM develops regional pediatric disaster planning and response capabilities that effectively match resources to needs for a catastrophic incident. What We Do WRAP-EM establishes regional partnerships to enhance capability and capacity to provide highly specialized care to pediatric patients. Identify challenges, gaps, and needs for children in ..

Children are particularly vulnerable in radiological and nuclear incidents and may need pharmaceutical countermeasures, including antidotes and cytokines. This study addresses the gap of pediatric countermeasures in research. It outlines pediatric indications and dosing of medical countermeasures for radiation exposure and internal contamination with radioactive materials: Advanced Hazmat Life ..

This checklist is designed as a reminder of what issues need to be addressed prior to a Tele critical care engagement between hospitals for COVID-19 coverage. It can also be referenced for other telemedicine inititatives.

Printable burn treatment card intended to be worn with provider badges.

A list of answered questions realted to burns and the burn treatment guidelines.

A poster demonstrating how to treat burns.

The Telehealth Focus Group of WRAP-EM has developed an initial set of planning considerations and response for pediatric incidents. Although this list is not comprehensive of all considerations for preparedness and response activities, it does provide a primer for planners and response teams.

This document provides guidance for healthcare coalitions, burn centers, state public health preparedness professionals, healthcare entities, and other stakeholders planning for a burn mass casualty incident (BMCI). A BMCI is defined as any burn incident where capacity and capability significantly compromises patient care. This plan identifies the experts and ..

The purpose of this document is to guide patient care and resources for single or multiple burn patients. Application of these guidelines will require and depend on clinician judgment at the point of patient care. This document is specifically written to ensure non-burn facilities are able to provide acute ..