Emergency Medical Task Force 6 (EMTF6)
EMTF Training
EMTF Components
When activated, each task force will be able to engage up to 25 ambulances (5 Strike Teams) for deployment either regionally or on a statewide mission.
Capabilities
- Each Strike Team has assigned Strike Team Leader
- Teams are pre-identified
- Ready for a No Notice Regional deployment
- Ready for a State-wide tasked mission assignment
- FEMA Typing vs. Texas Typing
- Common Communications
The primary mission is to provide advanced medical transport and evacuation services for large-scale disasters.
The MMU can provide acute or emergent care level of services and/or bed capacity for hospital relief. The staffing, supplies, and equipment of an MMU may be adjusted to provide appropriate levels of care. In some instances when staffing, supplies, and infrastructure permit, the MMU may be configured to provide emergency intervention. MMU staffing includes doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, logistics, comms/IT, techs and clerks. The scope of care for such a configuration includes:
- Nursing care for stabilized internal medicine, trauma, orthopedic, and obstetric patients
- Medical workups and examinations;
- Nursing care for special needs patients
- Ability to provide care for a variety of acuity levels while providing treatment, transfer or discharge
- Preparation for transport for patients who require transfer to hospitals
- Administration of intravenous medications and drips
- Minimal short-term cardiac monitoring
- Minimal short-term ventilator support
- The MMU does not provide surgical services
These groups of specialized nurses may be deployed during State tasked assignments to assist an over-taxed medical facility. These nurses will be deployed into hospitals to provide care as they would if they were at their sponsoring agency.
Capabilities
- 5 RN’s in each Strike Team (25 total RN’s)
- Each Team has pre-assigned Strike Team Leader
- ER Strike Teams
- 1 Specialty area (Burn, OB, ICU, Pedi, NICU, etc)
- Approx. 72 hr deployment
