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| 2750007680 | cold zone | area where the Incident Command post and support functions are located. | 0 | |
| 2750007681 | command | the first on the scene to establish order and initiate the Incident Command System. | 1 | |
| 2750007682 | decontamination | the removal or cleansing of dangerous chemicals and other dangerous or infectious materials. | 2 | |
| 2750007900 | disaster plan | a predefined set of instructions for a community's emergency responders. | 3 | |
| 2750007901 | hazardous material | any substance or material in a form that poses an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce or kept in storage at a warehouse, port, depot, or railroad facility. | 4 | |
| 2750008232 | hot zone | area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough to prevent adverse effects outside the zone. | 5 | |
| 2750008233 | incident command | the person or persons who assume overall direction of a large-scale incident. | 6 | |
| 2750008467 | incident command system | a subset of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) designed specifically for management of multiple-casualty incidents. | 7 | |
| 2750008661 | multiple-casualty incident | any medical or trauma incident involving multiple patients. | 8 | |
| 2750008962 | national incident management system | the management system used by federal, state, and local governments to manage emergencies in the United States. | 9 | |
| 2750009215 | single incident command | command organization in which a single agency controls all resources and operations. | 10 | |
| 2750009216 | staging area | the area where ambulances are parked and other resources are held until needed. | 11 | |
| 2750009533 | staging supervisor | person responsible for overseeing ambulances and ambulance personnel at a multiple-casualty incident. | 12 | |
| 2750009534 | surge capacity | a measurable representation of ability to manage a sudden influx of patients. It is dependent on a well functioning incident management system and the variables of space, supplies, staff, and any special considerations (contaminated or contagious patients, for example). (Source: ACEP, 2011). | 13 | |
| 2750012157 | transportation supervisor | person responsible for communicating with sector officers and hospitals to manage transportation of patients to hospitals from a multiple-casualty incident. | 14 | |
| 2750009718 | treatment area | the area in which patients are treated at a multiple-casualty incident. | 15 | |
| 2750009719 | treatment supervisor | person responsible for overseeing treatment of patients who have been triaged at a multiple-casualty incident. | 16 | |
| 2750009720 | triage | the process of quickly assessing patients at a multiple-casualty incident and assigning each a priority for receiving treatment; from a French word meaning "to sort." | 17 | |
| 2750009953 | triage area | the area where secondary triage takes place at a multiple-casualty incident. | 18 | |
| 2750009954 | triage supervisor | the person responsible for overseeing triage at a multiple-casualty incident. | 19 | |
| 2750010247 | triage tag | color-coded tag indicating the priority group to which a patient has been assigned. | 20 | |
| 2750010248 | unified command | command organization in which several agencies work independently but cooperatively. | 21 | |
| 2750010249 | warm zone | area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and thus assists in reducing the spread of contamination. | 22 |
