Dead or Alive Managing Both in Mass Fatality Incidents

This Wyoming lecture is intended for local and state public health practitioners, public health nurses, local and state emergency management staff, medicolegal death investigators, and funeral professionals. The speaker discusses the importance of local jurisdictions developing a fatality management infrastructure to include a multi-disciplinary approach including rural environments. Also addressed is the importance of identifying and returning the dead to their families, and using the best practices to protect workers in the aftermath of such an event.