In large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, quick sufficient transportation of emergency relief supplies is required. Logistics activities conducted to quickly provide appropriate aid (relief goods) people affected by disasters are known humanitarian logistics (HL), play an important role in terms saving the lives those affected. previous last-mile distribution HL, transported t...

INTRODUCTION Much less is known about pain prevalence in pediatric patients in an out-of-hospital than emergency department setting. The purpose of this study was to determine pain prevalence in children in a prehospital emergency setting and to identify the factors associated with pain relief. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective cohort study in consecutive patients 15 years or younger was...

The adequate management of severe pain in accident and emergency departments depends on knowledge of the pharmacology of analgesic drugs. To evaluate such a knowledge a study by questionnaire was conducted. Fourteen accident and emergency departments participated and one hundred senior house officers answered the questionnaire. A large percentage of the respondents would use an inappropriate ro...

This research explores the potential determinants of trust in newly formed virtual teams to better inform the choice of communication media for virtual emergency response groups for which interpersonal trust is crucial. Results of a laboratory experiment indicate that the way that communicants view their teammates and themselves as part of that team is significantly correlated with the level of...

OBJECTIVES This second portion of a 3-part series examines the relative effectiveness of headache treatment with neuroleptics, antihistamines, serotonin antagonists, valproate, and other drugs (octreotide, lidocaine, nitrous oxide, propofol, and bupivacaine) in the setting of an emergency department, urgent care center, or headache clinic. METHODS MEDLINE was searched using the terms "migrain...

Emergency remote sensing mapping can provide support for decision making in disaster assessment or relief, and therefore plays an important role response. Traditional emergency methods use decryption algorithms based on manual retrieval image editing tools when processing sensitive targets. Although these traditional achieve target recognition, they are inefficient cannot meet the high time eff...