Introduction: Mass casualty incidents (MCI) overwhelm existing resources in the emergency department. The method to recall staff an MCI is text notification through hospital call center. This study aims assess effectiveness of a novel senior physicians during MCI. Method: For this method, upon MCI, physician on duty will start tree activation based four different job grades. He/she first for ea...

Ultrasonography used by practicing clinicians has been shown to be of utility in the evaluation of time-sensitive and critical illnesses in a range of environments, including pre-hospital triage, emergency department, and critical care settings. The increasing availability of light-weight, robust, user-friendly, and low-cost portable ultrasound equipment is particularly suited for use in the ph...

In MCIs (mass casualty incidents) the EMC (emergency medical chief) has to gain an overview on all patients at the scene. When using paper based patient tags the patient-related information remains at the patients themselves and the information relay is complex. We propose a mobile, RFID based solution, which makes the local patient-related information available to all relief workers at the sce...

The most widely used standard for mass-casualty triage, START, relies on a fixed-priority ordering among different classes of patients, and does not explicitly consider resource limitations or the changes in survival probabilities with respect to time. We construct a fluid model of patient triage in a mass-casualty incident that incorporates these factors and characterize its optimal policy. We...

In mass casualty incidents, operation managers have to make decisions under highly stressful conditions. At present, the tactical information is mostly written down on paper-based worksheets, which are inconvenient to use. As a result, the operation managers tend to avoid the paper sheets and try to remember information which is error-prone. To overcome this issue, this paper presents an IT-sup...

In the situation of mass casualty incidents in Germany the questions that always remain are what and how much resources are needed to provide the best response. Furthermore, there are many local-specific constraints that exist, such as the density of hospitals nearby, what their surgery capacities are like, the distance between the local rescue bases and the incident scene as well as the level ...

Best possible pre-hospital treatment in the event of a mass casualty incident (MCI) is related to prioritizing rescue tasks and using rescue resources efficiently. Currently, information is almost always documented on paper-based forms and communicated by one-to-one talks, messengers, radio and mobile phone. Pervasive computer-based solutions are not established yet. Although the mere technolog...