Evacuation performance is crucial for gymnasium design and occupant safety. This paper uses Simulex, an agent-based model to simulate and optimize the evacuation performance of a typical medium-size university gymnasium. Simulated results show that the current design is susceptible to evacuation problems, such as long egress time, insufficient exits and severe imbalance for stair usage. Design ...

INTRODUCTION On 24 September 2005, Hurricane Rita made landfall in eastern Texas, resulting in the mandatory evacuation of 16 counties and declaration of disaster areas in 22 counties afterward. HYPOTHESIS This study tested whether the evacuation and hurricane landfall affected the pattern of Texas poison center calls. METHODS Texas poison center calls received from the 22 disaster-area cou...

The term Evacuability (passenger evacuation performance capability) entails a wide range of capabilities encompassing evaluation of evacuation time, identification of potential bottlenecks, assessment of accommodation module layout, life saving appliances, passenger familiarisation with a ship’s environment, crew training, effective evacuation procedures/strategies, intelligent decision support...

INTRODUCTION The evacuation of a health care facility is a complex undertaking, especially if done in an immediate fashion, ie, within minutes. Patient factors, such as continuous medical care needs, mobility, and comprehension, will affect the efficiency of the evacuation and translate into evacuation resource needs. Prior evacuation resource estimates are 30 years old. METHODS Utilizing a c...

Evacuation planning is a fundamental requirement to ensure that most people can be evacuated to a safe area when a natural accident or an intentional act happens in a stadium environment. The central challenge in evacuation planning is to determine the optimum evacuation routing to safe areas. We describe the evacuation networkwithin a stadium as a hierarchical directed network.We propose amult...

An effective evacuation system can help people escape from building fire. Most evacuation systems consist of an indoor positioning system, a back-end database, and a display device with calculation and display software. However, very few of them can smartly determine which evacuation route is the best decision. If all the locations of the evacuating people can be simultaneously determined, the ...

OBJECTIVE Fibrinogen and factor XIII (FXIII) have been shown to critically influence clot firmness in the intraoperative setting and thus likely influence intraoperative bleeding. We were interested to identify potential modulators of postoperative clot firmness in a tertiary care hospital surgical intensive care unit setting, independent of their clinical course during surgery. METHODS 272 d...

BACKGROUND Safety of evacuation is of paramount importance in disaster planning for elderly people; however, little effort has been made to investigate evacuation-related mortality risks. After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident we conducted a retrospective cohort survival survey of elderly evacuees. METHODS A total of 715 residents admitted to five nursing homes in Minamisoma city,...

OBJECT Catheter-based evacuation is a novel surgical approach for the treatment of brain hemorrhage. The object of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ultrasound in combination with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) delivered through a microcatheter directly into spontaneous intraventricular (IVH) or intracerebral (ICH) hemorrhage in humans. METHODS Thirty-thr...