Risk management in emergency situations

Radio resource management in WCDMA-based networks in emergency situations

The paper addresses a situation, when universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) network gets congested as a result of a catastrophe or an accident involving many people. The scenario of the situation and objectives for the network during the congestion are defined. Finally, two simple resource management algorithms useful in this case are compared. Their performance, when used separately...

Management of emergency situations in patients undergoing tracheostomy.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge of health care professionals in an emergency situation related to tracheostomy tube displacement METHODS a descriptive and exploratory study was carried out with the intensive care unit health professionals of a university hospital in Salvador, Brazil, from July to September 2007. For this purpose, a questionnaire was tra...

Modelling Decisions In Emergency Situations

This paper describes a methodology and supporting software tool that has been developed at AIAI for helping to model the decisions that people take in emergency situations o shore. We believe that this is the rst time that people's decision-making has been incorporated into egress and evacuation models. Our work is therefore an important rst step in the introduction of improved approaches to th...

Real-Time Alarm Management System for Emergency Situations

In this paper, we present an alarm management system focused on guiding offshore platform operators’ attention to the essential information that calls for immediate action during emergency situations. Due to the imminent associated danger involved in the petroleum operation domain, only well trained workers are allowed to operate in offshore oil process plants. Although their vast experience, h...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management