BACKGROUND Clinical trial success depends on appropriate management, but practical guidance to trial organisation and planning is lacking. The Incident Command System (ICS) is the 'gold standard' management system developed for managing diverse operations in major incident and public health arenas. It enables effective and flexible management through integration of personnel, procedures, resour...

Although studies have shown that expert safety-critical decision-makers base the majority of their incident command decisions on past experiences, there is not yet a decision support tool enabling them to access relevant experience during an incident. The Remote Intelligent Management Support and Training (RIMSAT) project aims to provide such a solution through the integration of model-based re...

— This report describes the use of a support vector machines with a novel kernel, to determine the breathing rate and inhalation duration of a fire fighter wearing a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus. With this information, an incident commander can monitor the firemen in his command for exhaustion and ensure timely rotation of personnel to ensure overall fire fighter safety.

The article by Devereaux et al1 has made a valuable contribution through the provision of detailed guidelines for mass critical care practice. However, it is important to further contextualize critical care triage as a core component of a broader triage system. Envisioning triage as systemic process emphasizes the crucial interrelationships among patient care, the process of central decision ma...

Since there is no detailed hospital based incident reporting system, this study was designed to evaluate the medication errors associated with infusion pumps in intensive care unit (ICU). The investigation was conducted in a Teaching hospital in the form of a prospective, observational study. A sample size of 43 doses administered to ICU patients was chosen to enable reliable estimate of error ...

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) incident response varies dramatically based upon the hazardous material, the incident size, and the response duration. Robots can facilitate response planning, maintaining situational awareness, removing responders from dangerous situations, and allowing for immediate site feedback prior to human responder entry. This paper pres...

Industrial control system communication networks are vulnerable to reconnaissance, response injection, command injection, and denial of service attacks. Such attacks can lead to an inability to monitor and control industrial control systems and can ultimately lead to system failure. This can result in financial loss for control system operators and economic and safety issues for the citizens wh...