Which unit's responsibilities include triage of victims at a disaster site, medical care at the site, and staging locations outside the disaster site for transportation of patients to alternative health care facilities?
a. Emergency System for Advance Registra-tion of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP)
b. Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)
c. Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT)
d. NIMS National Incident Management System (NIMS)
C
DMAT units are composed of teams of various clinical health specialties that include, but may not be limited to, communications, logistics, maintenance, and security. These teams are locally based but can be deployed federally on request. ESAR-VHP is a registry of health professionals that can be accessed and executed to recruit medical and clinical professionals (e.g., retired, non-licensed) during an emergency response. START is a form of triage care used during a mass ca-sualty event. MRC is a registry of medical reserve corps persons who can be recruited for overall assistance with a health or hospital facility during an emergency response. NIMS is the national framework developed by the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to standardize emergency response from a local through federal level.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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