Dr. Bryan Beaver is an Emergency Department physician and EMS and Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program Director at The University of Kansas Health System. With the potential for severe and damaging weather Tuesday evening, he has advice on both preparing for and surviving a storm that damages your home.
In the video, he offers the following suggestions (time code for each sound clip is in parentheses.) Also included is Emergency Department video.
(0:00) The most important thing is to have a plan
(0:32) Why having the right footwear is so vital
(1:08) The most common kinds of injures from storms
(1:31) Have a plan for medical equipment, such as oxygen machines, which need power
(1:53) Plan for a way to store medication that needs refrigeration, perhaps with a cooler
(2:23) Don’t go back into a collapsed structure
(2:47-5:13) Emergency department video
