id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-265633-s3kbdxdu Tušer, Irena Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care 2020-10-01 .txt text/plain 4381 202 40 The resolution of mass-casualty incidents demands of medical personnel not merely a change of attitudes, approaches and thinking and targeted lifelong education in the area of catastrophe medicine, but also the need to increase the standard of emergency preparedness in individual segments (Šín et al. The number of training exercises implemented is one of the factors that influences the state of preparedness of the emergency medical service, though the qualification, competence and level of engagement of all persons contributing to the handling of mass-casualty incidents and the quality of crisis planning documentation is a no less important factor (Šín et al. In the first direction the preparedness of the emergency medical service is assessed in individual segments of its activity following mass-casualty incidents (Tušer and Navrátil 2020; Svarcova et al. The methodological procedure described here can also be used in internal audits performed by emergency managers, who can thus assess for themselves the fulfilment of preparedness criteria for mass casualty incidents. ./cache/cord-265633-s3kbdxdu.txt ./txt/cord-265633-s3kbdxdu.txt