Modifying the Advanced Disaster Life Support Course's DISASTER Paradigm for In-hospital Emergency Response

Advanced trauma life support courses.

Game-Based Disaster Emergency Response Training

Nationwide, one rescue worker is lost for every two victims rescued in collapsed structure situations; following Sept. 11, 2001, this ratio fell to 1:1. Limited physical facilities are available for training rescue workers in collapsed structure rescue. Our idea is to develop a training game for teaching collapsed structure rescue skills to members of emergency response community. In order to p...

Emergency Response Systems for Disaster Management in Buildings

Emergency response operations can benefit from the use of information systems that reduce decision making time and facilitate coordination between the participating units. We propose the use of two such systems and evaluate them with a specialised software platform that we have developed for simulation of disasters in buildings. The first system provides movement decision support to evacuees by...

emergency nurses’ requirements for disaster preparedness

results based on the findings, most of the participants (64.5%) were aged 30 - 39 years old. 84% of the cases were female and 97.3% had a bachelor’s degree. the average perceived knowledge of nurses was 2.43 ± 1.01. the nurses had the highest familiarity with triage and lowest knowledge in epidemiology and decision-making. conclusions lack knowledge of nurses regarding response to disaster situ...

Rapidly-Deployable Broadband Wireless Networks for Disaster and Emergency Response

Researchers at Virginia Tech's Center for Wireless Telecommunications are investigating a rapidly-deployable broadband wireless communications system for disaster and emergency response. Our goal is to provide a 120-Mbps backbone network to connect a hub and up to eight field units that can be operational within a matter of hours and can support a diverse set of applications. We describe the ne...