BACKGROUND Earthquakes are major causes of morbidity and mortality. North-western Turkey was struck by a devastating earthquake in August 1999, which caused several thousand deaths. Among the most important morbid events in survivors were acute nephrological problems. METHODS Within the first week of the disaster, specific questionnaires asking about 63 clinical and laboratory parameters were...

Disaster in terms is an event that threatens and disrupts human life livelihood. The causes can be natural factors, as well non-natural ones, it also humans themselves, causing fatalities, environmental damage, loss of property, psychological factors. emergency response activity carried out immediately when a disaster occurs to deal with the negative impacts, such transporting victims, fulfilli...

I investigated how people’s childhood experiences of involvement in team sports helped them develop non-cognitive skills, which later prompted to make charitable donations disaster victims. independently collected individual-level data from approximately 7000 observations 2016. The instrumental variable (IV) method was used for the estimations. In specification IV model, sporting experience and...

In this paper the focus is on the coherent use of nuclear DNA traits to identify the victims of a mass disaster. We demonstrate how the methods proposed currently used do not consider the correct conditioning to the event of interest and a solution is provided representing the model as a Bayesian Network.

Dentists continue to play a valuable role in the identification of victims in a mass disaster. Individuals and multidisciplinary teams are available to assist authorities in the process. Training, experience and advances in technology continue to improve the efficiency of the identification process.

OBJECTIVES When a soccer stadium stampede occurred in Zimbabwe on 9 July 2000, the hospital disaster (medical emergency) plan failed. This report describes the use of the audit technique to change the hospital's disaster preparedness. METHOD A literature review was done to establish international standards of best practice in major medical incident response. The hospital disaster plan (major ...

This paper presents a general overview of the WISECOM (Wireless Infrastructure over Satellite for Emergency Communications) system, focusing on the trials performed on a specifically developed demonstrator during a live simulation of a disaster event. The WISECOM system is intended to rapidly deploy a complete communications infrastructure in the early hours after a disaster occurs through the ...