The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami was a magnitude 9.0 Mw event that destroyed most structural tsunami countermeasures. However, approximately 90% of the estimated population at risk from the tsunami survived due to rapid evacuation to higher ground or inland. In this paper, we introduce an evacuation model integrated with a numerical simulation of a tsunami and a casualty estimation ...

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer-reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature on demographic, storm-related, and psychosocial correlates of natural disaster evacuation behavior...

Etta D. Pisano , Henry Fuchs, Andrei State, Mark A. Livingston, Gentaro Hirota, William F. Garrett and Mary C. Whitton a Departments of Radiology, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, USA b Computers Science, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel H...

We describe a reactive replanning technique developed to enable transportation planning in a highly dynamic, complex and critical domain: the military aeromedical evacuation of patients to medical treatment facilities. In early 1993, the Department of Defense tasked the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to consolidate the command and control of medical regulation (assigning patients to m...

This paper reports on the results of experimental investigations on the performance of a jet pump operated under selected primary flows to optimize the related parameters. For this purpose a two-phase flow jet pump was used employing various profiles of nozzles as the primary device which was designed, fabricated and used along with the combination of mixing tube and diffuser. The profiles empl...

This is the final part of a series of papers that review the evolution of the military casualty evacuation system in the 20th Century. This paper draws together the themes that have been presented in the previous papers to describe the mandatory functions of such a system. The forward surgical hospital is the key treatment node if wounded soldiers are to have the maximum chance of survival. Sug...

The August 2007 earthquake in Peru resulted in the loss of critical health infrastructure and resource capacity. A regionally located United States Military Mobile Surgical Team was deployed and operational within 48 hours. However, a post-mission analysis confirmed a low yield from the military surgical resource. The experience of the team suggests that non-surgical medical, transportation, an...

Established nonexpanding hematomas can be successfully treated with minimal morbidity using standard liposucstion techniques at the bedside or in an outpatient setting under local anesthesia. The authors presents a series of eight patients and discuss current concepts of dealing with this common and distressing surgical complication.