THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATIONS

The Evolution of a Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front

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...

“RapidClear®– A New Methodology for Fast Clearing Mass Casualty Crime Scenes”

A wave of terror attacks forced the Israeli police and its CSI units to make a radical change in the way they processed the crime scenes. This change led to a new procedure of work, faster and more efficient, in order to quick clearing of a scene.

“RapidClear®– A New Methodology for Fast Clearing Mass Casualty Crime Scenes”

A wave of terror attacks forced the Israeli police and its CSI units to make a radical change in the way they processed the crime scenes. This change led to a new procedure of work, faster and more efficient, in order to quick clearing of a scene.

The Casualty Surgeons' Association.