[Organization of emergency medical care in mass disasters]

Mass casualty incident is event with several injured or acutely ill persons, which is impossible to manage with available resources bit it can be managed after activation of special plan and spare resources. Every day at least one mass casualty incident happens in the world and that varies from Ljubljana Ambulance Service coverage area where 11 such incidents happened in the last 40 years. Success of intervention at mass casualty incident depends on quality of preparation for such event. In the pre hospital environment the medical treatment area is established at the incident site or in the neighborhood area, which presents the place where all key elements, vital for successful intervention, are developed. In general one person can manage only one key element or in the case of smaller mass casualty incident one person can manage few key elements. But in the case of large scale mass casualty event more than one person is needed to successfully manage certain key element. It is very important that all potential providers at mass casualty incident are well informed of functioning and establishing of all possible key elements and that they play all kind of key roles in advance at mass casualty drills.