OBJECTIVES: To educate athletic trainers and others about the need for emergency planning, to provide guidelines in the development of emergency plans, and to advocate documentation of emergency planning. BACKGROUND: Most injuries sustained during athletics or other physical activity are relatively minor. However, potentially limb-threatening or life-threatening emergencies in athletics and phy...

Hospital plans often vary when it comes to the specific functional roles that are included in emergency and incident management positions. Bioterrorism coordinators and emergency managers for 31 hospitals in a seven-county region outside of a major metropolitan area, with urban, suburban, and rural demographics were surveyed to determine which specific functional roles were considered "essentia...

Having a business continuity plan is vital for companies to prepare for, survive and recover from a hurricane. Use IBHS? free OFB-EZ® (Open for Business) [7] business continuity planning tool to create a plan that focuses on recovering after the initial emergency response. Share your plan with employees, assign responsibilities and offer training so your workforce can collaborate in the recover...

Plan recognition, cognitive workload estimation and human assistance have been extensively studied in the AI and human factors communities, but have seldom been integrated and evaluated as complete systems. In this paper, we develop an assistant agent architecture integrating plan recognition, current and future user information needs, workload estimation and adaptive information presentation t...

Results of a cross-sectional study to determine the level of emergency and disaster response planning at Ohio nonhuman animal shelters and the role Ohio agencies have in emergency and disaster response planning in their communities indicated a lack of preparedness coupled with underutilization of the agencies as a resource. A total of 115 agencies (68%) responded to a standardized survey mailed...

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in exercising young athletes. Three factors-prompt recognition of SCA, the presence of a trained rescuer to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and access to early defibrillation through on-site automated external defibrillators (AEDs)-are critical to improving survival. Schools, clubs and organisations sponsoring athletic event...

of performance (EPs) for “Emergency Management” (EM) Standard EM.03.01.03, which addresses emergency management exercises for the home care program. Revised EP 1 and new EPs 18 and 19 become effective January 1, 2013. The EM standards have always required organizations to align the scope of their emergency management exercises with the scope of their emergency operations plan (EOP) and response...

A nuclear emergency response plan for Danish territory was first published in Decem-ber 1981 i. The plan focused on the Swedish Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant and covered the Greater Copenhagen area. During the Chernobyl accident in 1986 the principles of the nuclear emergency response plan for Greater Copenhagen were used for the whole of Denmark. A full nationwide nuclear emergency response pl...

This paper is about the design and implementation of a wiki-based knowledge management system for improving emergency response. Most organizations face difficult challenges in managing knowledge for emergency response, but it is crucial for response effectiveness that such challenges be overcome. Organizational members must share the knowledge needed to plan for emergencies. They also must be a...