“One, two, three!”: Coordinating and projecting simultaneous start and end of joint actions in drills of rescue activities in mass casualty incidents

Social interaction in high stakes crisis communication

“…Indeed, even with training and simulations, a practitioner may never actually attend a live event during their career but must be prepared to do so with little warning. In Krug and Pitsch's (2022) paper, they examine talk and interactions that comprise training for a mass casualty incident in Germany and in German. Coordinating actions and tasks between members of emergency and rescue teams when moving injured people, and working under time pressure, requires the careful coordination of embodied actions.…”