(P1-36) Mass Casualty Incident Awareness of Remote Location Staff in Western Australia

Hepatitis B outbreak following a mass-casualty incident, Australia.

On 16 April 2009, a boat carrying 47 Afghan asylum seekers and 2 Indonesian crew exploded in Australian waters, resulting in mass casualties. Of these casualties, 23 persons who suffered significant burns were transferred to Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. One patient was subsequently shown to be a hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier at the time of the explosion. Over the following ...

Big Data Analytics for Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Situational Awareness

Introduction A variety of big data analytics, techniques and tools including social media analytics, open source visualizations, statistical anomaly detection, use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and geospatial mapping, are used for infectious disease biosurveillance. Using these methodologies, policy makers and practitioners detect and monitor outbreaks across the world near real...

Effectiveness of hospital staff mass-casualty incident training methods: a systematic literature review.

INTRODUCTION Recently, mass-casualty incident (MCI) preparedness and training has received increasing attention at the hospital level. OBJECTIVES To review the existing evidence on the effectiveness of disaster drills, technology-based interventions and tabletop exercises in training hospital staff to respond to an MCI. METHODS A systematic, evidence-based process was conducted incorporatin...

[Mass casualty incident management by mSTaRT].

Training to hospital staff to respond to a mass casualty incident.