Background: Emergency thoracotomies often challenge surgical logistics and they tend to produce inferior outcomes when compared with elective surgery. Aims: We sought to identify the specific indications and therapeutic challenges that go with patients who undergo thoracotomy within 24 hours of admission and the re-thoracotomies. Methodology: Spanning a 7-year period, the bio-data of patients w...

Collaboration in emergency logistics can be beneficial for governmental actors when supply chains need to set up immediately. In comparison research on humanitarian-business partnerships, the body of literature so-called Public–Private Emergency Collaborations (PPEC) remains scarce. Private companies are only rarely considered within collaborations, although they serve as an important chain eff...

Background Prior to 1993, Nepal had a vertical health logistics system. Logistics was not a government priority. No logistics curricula had been developed, no staff had been trained, and no logistics information systems existed at any level. After the establishment of the Logistics Management Division in 1993, the lack of trained manpower in logistics was realized. With support of USAID funded ...

The rapid development of Internet of Things has become an important trend of international economic and technological development, and the logistics industry is an industry first contact with Internet of Things. The concept of intelligent logistics is the tide of history, meets development trends of modern logistics industry automation, networking, visualization, real-time tracking and intellig...

A logistics information service manages a large amount of products and product transport flow. Many applications request logistics information from a logistics information service. For effective sharing of logistics information and knowledge, the design of a logistics information management system is important. The current web is changing to a semantic web that provides a common framework for d...

Complex logistics audit system Complex logistics audit system is a tool for realization of logistical audit in the company. The current methods for logistics audit are based on “ad hok” analysis of logisticsl system. This paper describes system for complex logistics audit. It is a global diagnostics of logistics processes and functions of enterprise. The goal of logistics audit is to provide co...

At present, with the adjustment of the structure of the steel industry, the steel logistics industry is also engaged in integrating. Steel logistics resource integration is an important problem to be solved. Based on previous research on steel logistics resource integration, this paper proposes a new research perspective on steel logistics resources integration: supply-demand network of steel l...

The rapid development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) has profound influence on logistics industry. Firstly, through analysis that combines m-commerce and the logistics industry, the paper draws a conclusion that main m-commerce applications in logistics industry include cargo tracking, mobile inventory management, vehicle positioning and M2M (machine to machine) mobile services. Then, we think...

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

Purpose Mountaineering and related activities are increasingly becoming popular accompanied by an increase in medical incidents. Emergency operations mountainous terrain time-critical often pose major logistical challenges for rescuers. Drones expected to improve the operational performance of mountain However, they not yet widely used rescue missions. This paper examines determinants that driv...