Survey of Dental Healthcare System Preparedness for Large-scale Disaster

Trauma system: the backbone of disaster preparedness.

BACKGROUND To describe the Los Angeles County trauma system response to disasters. METHODS Review of trauma system structure and multicasualty events. RESULTS The Los Angeles County trauma system is made up of 13 level I and II trauma centers with defined catchment areas that serve 10 million people in 88 cites over 4,000 square miles and receive more than 20,000 trauma activations annually...

Intelligent System for Urban Emergency Management during Large-Scale Disaster

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has significantly increased over the past decades and this trend is predicted to continue. Facing these possible and unexpected disasters, urban emergency management has become the especially important issue for the whole governments around the world. In this paper, we present a novel intelligent system for urban emergency management during the l...

Disaster preparedness.

Nurses' Preparedness for Disaster in South Khorasan Province, Ian

Background: Nurses, as the largest group in providing relief during disasters with their specialized skills, should be sufficiently prepared to provide the highest level of health care. By compiling predisaster preparedness programs, the provided healthcare would be promoted and number of casualties and incoordination in allocated tasks be reduced. This study was conducted to evaluate nurses&rs...

The Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for Information Acquiring in Large-scale Natural Disaster

In this paper, we propose the Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for the disaster countermeasures headquarters at the time of large-scale natural disaster. This Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System consists of the Post Damage Picture Smartphone Application, the Post Damage Picture Facebook Application, and the Web-GIS Disaster Information Management Site. The P...