Tablet computing for disaster scene managers.
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WIISARD utilizes wireless technology to improve the care of victims following a mass casualty disaster. The WIISARD Scene Manager device (WSM) is designed to enhance the collection and accessibility of real-time data on victims, ambulances and hospitals for disaster supervisors and managers. We recently deployed WSM during a large-scale disaster exercise. The WSM performed well logging and tracking victims and ambulances. Scene managers had access to data and utilized the WSM to coordinate patient care and disposition. (+info)
Information collection and dissemination: toward a portable, real-time information sharing platform for emergency response.
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The Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N) project seeks to 1) identify unmet needs of Washington DC area emergency response teams during mass casualty incidents and, 2) conduct feasibility tests of technology-based solutions. This paper describes Surveillance and Incident Reporting PDAs (SIRP), which provide an alternative platform for emergency response information collection, dissemination, and visualization. (+info)
Situational awareness during mass-casualty events: command and control.
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In existing Incident Command systems, situational awareness is achieved manually through paper tracking systems. Such systems often produce high latencies and incomplete data, resulting in inefficient and ineffective resource deployment. The WIISARD system collects much more data than a paper-based system, dramatically reducing latency while increasing the kinds and quality of information available to Incident Commanders. The WIISARD Command Center solves the problem of data over-load and uncertainty through the careful use of limited screen area and novel visualization techniques. (+info)
Handheld computer application for medical disaster management.
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We developed a prototype system that can provide reliable communications in the event of a medical disaster. The system uses redundant wireless protocols on handheld computers to deploy medical personnel, and to facilitate communication between ancillary treatment sites and a command center. (+info)
Service-oriented architecture for disaster response: integration of AID-N, MICHAELS, WISER, and ESSENCE.
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This paper describes a service-oriented architecture that uses a shared data model of the disaster scenario to support the exchange of data between heterogeneous systems. This architecture is employed in the Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N) system to facilitate interoperation between existing emergency response information technologies used in the Washington DC Metropolitan region. We will discuss the integration of three disparate systems into AID-N: a pre-hospital patient care reporting software system (MICHAELS), a syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE), and a hazardous material reference software system (WISER). (+info)
Developing an intelligent phone-based emergency triage communication and support system.
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In this study, the emergency triage support system was taken as an example. We develop new call flow style and combine traditional passive call flow. The system is designed by voice menu and users can command services actively. The telephone connect computer server to enter call flow module with ASR and TTS. Then the recognition term come from voice term database. Voice management center is an ER triage decision system. (+info)
A regional database of antidote availability.
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Timely pre-hospital management of snake bite and poisoning cases is hindered by the lack of information about availability of antidotes in hospitals. We aim to build a regional antidote database by collecting real-time antidote stock information from hospital pharmacy inventory systems and make this information available to the emergency medical technicians (EMTs). This would save valuable time, leading to improved outcomes for the patients. (+info)
Chest pain and validity of an emergency medical dispatch algorithm.
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Chest pain is a unique symptom in medical narration because the underlying cause can vary from mild acidity to massive Acute Myocardial Infarction also known as heart attack. Medical dispatching today is geared towards patient safety however too many Advanced Life Support (ALS) responses are made due to protocol of following every chest pain call. These ALS responses lead to inefficient use of community resources. Computerized dispatch protocol integrated with the dispatch station can achieve same level of patient safety with better utilization of Emergency Medical System (EMS) resources. (+info)