BACKGROUND Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) have been rarely studied from epidemiological approaches. The objective of this study is to establish the epidemiological profile of MCI in the autonomous region of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) and analyse ambulance deployment and severity of patients. METHODS This is a population-based prospective study run in 2014. Inclusion criteria for MCI ...

BACKGROUND The Kampala Metropolitan Area (KMA) is the fastest developing region in Uganda. Over recent years, this has placed exponential demand on the road sector, which consequently has contributed to rapid growth in motorized vehicles which, predisposes the region to a high risk of road traffic incidents (RTIs). A number of concerted road safety and post-crash management measures to respond ...

The complex structural and material behaviour of the human heel fat pad determines the transmission of plantar loading to the lower limb across a wide range of loading scenarios; from locomotion to injurious incidents. The aim of this study was to quantify the hyper-viscoelastic material properties of the human heel fat pad across strains and strain rates. An inverse finite element (FE) optimis...

Driver sleepiness is a major cause of serious road crashes. Coffee is often used as an effective countermeasure to driver sleepiness. However, the caffeine levels in coffee are variable, whereas certain proprietary "functional energy drinks" (FEDs) contain known levels of caffeine (and other ingredients). We investigated the effectiveness of a well-known FED in reducing sleepiness in drivers. T...

Managing a city with its different departments, resources and assets can be a challenging problem especially when considering the dynamic events (fire, traffic accidents, 911 calls, road closures, etc. ...) that take place each day. The overall performance of how a city is performing depends on the efficiency of different departments. Taking into account that the needed information resides in t...

The focus of OHS in Australia is on workplace-based prevention rather than individual health care. Over the past decade, workers' compensation data have shown continuous improvement in work-related deaths, serious injuries and diseases. Injuries from work-related vehicle incidents are the leading cause of fatalities. There is a high incidence of on-road incidents in light vehicles; this problem...

A special element of road safety research is accidents at the interface and rail system. Due to their low share in total number incidents, they are not a popular subject analyses but rather an collective studies, whereas specificity road–rail requires separate characteristic, allowing, on one hand, categorize these types other, specify factors that affect them, along with assessment strength th...

The striped hyena is an enigmatic species that little studied. It mainly found in semiarid and arid regions described as elusive, cryptic, nocturnal, solitary. global distribution disjunct, the suffers from human persecution. However, specific communities consider them to be commensals. Owing their scavenging behavior, hyenas are disproportionately involved vehicular-wildlife incidents, most of...

Road accident data includes detailed information about incidents that occurred, such as where they happened, the severity of accident, and number people on road at time. Such is useful in determining causes accidents developing potential countermeasures. This research aims to determine factors contribute pedestrian fatalities injuries traffic accidents. study examined 150 pedestrian-vehicle too...

Decisions made by operational commanders at emergency incidents have been characterized as involving a period of information gathering followed by courses of action that are often generated without explicit plan formulation. We examined the efficacy of goal-oriented training in engendering explicit planning that would enable better communication at emergency incidents. While standard training m...