The Segway® self-balancing personal transporter has been used as a means of transport for sightseeing tourists, military, police and emergency medical personnel. Only recently have reports been published about serious injuries that have been sustained while operating this device. This case describes a 67-year-old male who sustained an oblique fracture of the shaft of the femur while using the S...

Weather • Robust design of emergency response networks. • Design of financial instruments to hedge against weather emergencies to protect individuals, companies and municipalities. • Design of sensor networks and communication systems to manage responses to major weather events. Disease • Models of disease propagation for response planning. • Management of medical personnel, equipment and vacci...

The article gives a brief description of tactical and medical situation of Baku garrison during military conflict, and also the data concerning the character and the structure of sanitary losses, and the volume of medical care. Organizational, transportation, personnel and logistic problems of medical support of troops are also described. The proposals are given how it is possible to settle the...

To report on the establishment of a Research and Development program for Performance Enhancement using valid applications of High Quality Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies for the Commercial Driving community. This project is one element of a larger research and education initiative sponsored by both the US Federal and State Departments of Transportation. It is focused on enhancing ...

The body scanning device, used at some airports to view through passenger's clothing to the surface of the skin, is considered to be a major improvement toward ensuring that weapons or explosives are not carried onto commercial aircraft, making airline travel safer, and the nation more secure. In the ten years since September 11, 2001, airport security has become increasingly invasive. Air pass...

BACKGROUND Trachoma prevalence surveys provide the evidence base for district and community-wide implementation of the SAFE strategy, and are used to evaluate the impact of trachoma control interventions. An economic analysis was performed to estimate the cost of trachoma prevalence surveys conducted between 2006 and 2010 from 8 national trachoma control programs in Africa. METHODOLOGY AND FI...

My thesis work began as part of project Rescue (http://www.itr-rescue.org) whose goal is to help emergency personnel better respond to natural and man-made disasters. I titled my Rescue subproject “People Forecasting”. Just as a weather forecast helps people make more informed decisions about what to wear, where to go and when to go there; the goal of People Forecasting is that emergency person...

OBJECTIVE The present study compares the cost-effectiveness of targeted household treatment and mass treatment of children in the most westerly part of Nepal. METHODS Effectiveness was measured as the percentage point change in the prevalence of trachoma. Resource measures included personnel time required for treatment, transportation, the time that study subjects had to wait to receive treat...

The risk of occupational death is disproportionately high for emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, largely as a consequence of the high incidence of transportation-related fatalities. The purpose of this narrative review is twofold: to raise awareness in the EMS community by examining the various factors that contribute to vehicular EMS injuries and fatalities and to outline practical st...