MESH Grand Rounds | May 4, 2021
“Breaking the Great Myths of Managing Mass Casualty Incidents” by Mauricio Lynn, MD, FACS, FSCCM
Dr. Lynn finished his Medical School at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained in General Surgery at Tel Aviv University/Sheba Medical Center in Israel and did Trauma/Critical Care fellowship at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Lynn is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Israeli Military where he served for 18 years. His main positions were as Flight Surgeon with the Israeli Air Force Special Forces, Medical Commander of the Israeli Air Rescue and Medical Evacuation Unit (Unit 669) and Head of Trauma Branch for the Israeli Armed Forces. Dr. Lynn was the Medical Commander of Operation Solomon, the largest airborne humanitarian rescue mission in history, Commander of the Israeli medical team deployed to Nairobi in the aftermath of the bombings of the American embassy, team Commander and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of 2 Israeli field hospitals deployed to Turkey in the aftermath of the1999 earthquakes and was deployed to Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake as the CMO of the University of Miami field hospital in Port Au Prince.
Dr. Lynn was in charge of policy making for field trauma care for the military and in charge of disaster preparedness of all Israeli hospitals, working in conjunction with the Ministry of Health.
Currently, Dr. Lynn is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami and practices as a Trauma Surgeon and Critical Care Specialist at the Ryder Trauma Center. Dr. Lynn served as disaster consultant for the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Denver Health Medical Center in preparation for the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and consultant for the Republican National Convention, in Tampa, FL, in 2012. Dr. Lynn was the chair of the Trauma Disaster Committee for the Florida Department of Health.
Dr. Lynn is the ATLS pillar of Florida Committee of Trauma, member of the American College of Surgeons, Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Pan American Trauma Society and the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM), serving on the Board of Directors until recently.
Dr. Lynn is the author of the disaster training course “Operational Response to Mass Casualties – ORMAC”, the only medical disaster course approved by the Department of Homeland Security in the USA. He is also the author of the new PRIDE course (Planning and Response Integration for Disaster and Emergencies).
During this presentation, attendees will learn to:
Review epidemiology of mass casualty incidents;
Discuss the relevant triage criteria;
Learn the management principles of multiple simultaneous injuries.
CME/CEU credits are available.
All events in the MESH GrandRounds Series are FREE and open to the public.