ABDOMINAL INJURIES IN A CASUALTY CLEARING STATION

The Evolution of a Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front

Volleyball injuries presenting in casualty: a prospective study.

During 1986, all sports injuries (n = 5222) were prospectively recorded at the two casualty departments in Arhus, Denmark. Volleyball injuries (n = 278) accounted for 5.3% of all sports injuries. An evaluation of the rehabilitation period and the consequences of the injuries was undertaken by questionnaire three years after the injury. The injury incidence was 1.9 injuries/1000 inhabitants/year...

Outcome of sports injuries treated in a casualty department.

The present investigation analyses 2493 patients with a sports injury treated in a casualty department during a one-year period. Of the patients 73% were men, the age of the patients averaging 26 years and the mean follow-up time was 24 months. Soccer and indoor ball games caused 24% and 23% of the injuries respectively, these being followed by injuries in ice hockey in 14%. Track and field inj...

Abdominal injuries.

hospitals realized which cases they should transfer immediately. In most cases it takes no more than two hours to move a patient from any hospital to a major centre, and it is in this area of improved transport of a patient to the major centres that the greatest improvement in our treatment could be achieved. A railway ambulance car would help more than any other single thing in an island such ...

Scheduling Impatient Jobs in a Clearing System with Insights on Patient Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents

Motivated by the patient triage problem in emergency response, we consider a single-server clearing system in which jobs may abandon the system if they are not taken into service within their “lifetime.” In this system, jobs are characterized by their lifetime and service time distributions. Our objective is to dynamically determine the optimal or near-optimal order of service for jobs so as to...