Disaster Medicine and Mass Casualty Incident Management: Lessons and Advances

This chapter synthesises evidence and operational lessons from major mass casualty incidents, natural disasters, and public health emergencies of the past decade to outline current best practice in disaster medicine planning, triage, and medical surge response. It reviews advances in austere environment trauma care, mass gathering medicine, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) preparedness, and the integration of telemedicine and mobile health technologies into disaster response frameworks, with a focus on translatable systems improvements for emergency healthcare institutions.