UCSD Disaster Exercise - Golden Guardian - May 18, 2010

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, UC San Diego Health System participates in Golden Guardian 2010, a statewide exercise with area hospitals, clinics and San Diego response agencies. The exercise is conducted as a CODE TRIAGE at UC San Diego Medical Center- Hillcrest, as well as Thornton Hospital and Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla.

CODE TRIAGE is initiated when the Emergency Department Attending Physician determines that a community event requires activation of the Medical Centers Emergency Operation Plans. CODE TRIAGE is announced on all Medical Center pagers and the overhead paging system. The Hospital Command Center (HCC) is opened to manage the hospital and clinics response to the emergency.

Golden Guardian 2010, enables the Medical Centers faculty and staffs to practice the response to multiple-casualty incidents involving trauma, burns and possible radiation exposures and contamination from a bomb scenario. A conventional bomb containing radioactive material is called a dirty bomb. Contamination requires the use of radiation survey meters and activation of the Medical Centers Decontamination Team. UC Campus radiation specialists come to the Medical Center to participate in this important exercise.