87 The Decontamination of Contaminated Chemical Casualties

Decontamination of multiple casualties who are chemically contaminated: a challenge for acute hospitals.

Patients who have been contaminated by chemical compounds present a number of difficulties to emergency departments, in particular, the risk of secondary contamination of healthcare staff and facilities. The Department of Health in the United Kingdom has provided equipment to decontaminate chemically contaminated casualties who present at emergency departments. The capacity of this equipment is...

Decontamination of Mutually Contaminated Models

A variety of machine learning problems are characterized by data sets that are drawn from multiple different convex combinations of a fixed set of base distributions. We call this a mutual contamination model. In such problems, it is often of interest to recover these base distributions, or otherwise discern their properties. This work focuses on the problem of classification with multiclass la...

Triage of Chemical Casualties

Triage of Chemical Casualties

Decontamination of mass casualties--re-evaluating existing dogma.

The events of 11 September 2001 became the catalyst for many to shift their disaster preparedness efforts towards mass-casualty incidents. Emergency responders, healthcare workers, emergency managers, and public health officials worldwide are being tasked to improve their readiness by acquiring equipment, providing training and implementing policy, especially in the area of mass-casualty decont...