The study of disaster triage is made difficult by the complex emotional response of potentially lifesaving intervention that a triage officer must make basing decisions on a succinct and efficient algorithm. A survey of triage professionals in international settings was designed to identify possible emotionally led bias that affects objective decision making in identifying victims most likely t...

Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashed following takeoff from Reno-Cannon International Airport on 21 Jan. 1985. Sixty-eight persons on board the aircraft perished in the initial crash and resultant fire which followed. Two victims expired as a result of crash injuries within subsequent days and one passenger survived. A community disaster response plan was in place and had been practiced by local ...

The global response to the tsunami disaster in south Asia on 26 December 2004 has been overwhelming. Approximately US$ 6 billion have been pledged in aid by citizens and governments, and authorities have offered military assistance and debt relief (W1). This outpouring of goodwill reflects the universality of the humanitarian impulse: an innate, altruistic urge to assist fellow human beings who...

This work aims to support the actions of disaster victims, including tourists and persons who do not understand local language, via information sharing when disasters occur. Existing disaster support systems are often targeted at local residents, and understanding the local language is a prerequisite for use. In consideration of this situation, our system converts linguistic information to a no...

Tagged as victims of 'the world's biggest, longest running industrial disaster; dwarfing Chernobyl', 10 000 known silicosis-affected Southern African gold miners are finally set to negotiate a payout that could induce a painful paroxysm of shareholder coughing across the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

We conducted a field study to test whether the common ingroup identity model (Gaertner & Dovidio, 2000, reducing intergroup bias: The common ingroup identity model. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press) could be a useful tool to improve intergroup relations in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Participants were majority (Italian) and minority (immigrant) elementary school children (N = 517) li...

BACKGROUND On 23 October 2011, an earthquake occurred in the city of Van, Turkey. This earthquake was an enormous devastating disaster and caused mass casualties. The descriptive analysis presented here serves as a reference not only for the present injury profile but also for future disaster response. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on the medical records of earthquake victims ad...

OBJECTIVE To describe the methods of evaluating currently available triage models for their efficacy in appropriately triaging the surge of patients after an all-hazards disaster. DESIGN A method was developed for evaluating currently available triage models using extracted data from medical records of the victims from the Graniteville chlorine disaster. SETTING On January 6, 2005, a freigh...

Earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and other such events can cause tremendous harm to people and infrastructure, often leaving those outside the areas impacted with little or no information on the state of their friends and relatives who may have been affected. Our goal is to automatically process images of patients taken as part of the intake process at emergencymedical care centers t...

The global mass media in general depicts disasters as a spectacle for an audience of consumers. As a result, the individuals depicted effectively become generic victims, not fully developed human beings with distinct needs and interests (Drake, Tierney). In Sinha’s novel, however, the chemical plant explosion, though drastically noxious to Khaufpuri citizens, is not restricted to harming only K...