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Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) is an event that overwhelm the local healthcare system with a number of casualties that vastly exceed the local resources and capabilities in a short period of time. This definition puts an emphasis on the local resources of a particular hospital, as the affirmation of an ongoing MCI is different from one hospital to another, meaning that an MCI for one hospital is only a relatively busy day for another.
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Ben-Ishay, O. (2020). Definitive Care Phase of a Mass Casualty Incident. In: Kluger, Y., Coccolini, F., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L. (eds) WSES Handbook of Mass Casualties Incidents Management. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92345-1_13
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