INTRODUCTION Hip or knee dislocations are usually treated as a surgical emergency, but ipsilateral hip and knee dislocation should be considered a dual emergency that must be addressed immediately and reduced at the earliest. We present here the sequence of events and the final functional outcome of one such rare injury manages by us. CASE REPORT A 22-year-old male was involved in a road traf...

Emergency vehicles (ambulances, police cars and fire trucks) are deployed for rescuing people in an emergency. Crash statistics for Alberta, Canada indicate that more than 300 road traffic accidents every year involve at least one emergency vehicle. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that may have an influence on the probability of injury in crashes involving emergency vehicles in...

BACKGROUND The international wildlife trade is a key threat to biodiversity. Temporal genetic marketplace monitoring can determine if wildlife trade regulation efforts such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are succeeding. Protected under CITES effective 1997, sturgeons and paddlefishes, the producers of black caviar, are flagship CITES species. METHODOLOG...

Routing decisions affect everybody traveling on the roadways, but perhaps those decisions are never more important than for emergency responders. In a field where seconds count, getting lost or taking a sub-optimal route can mean the difference between life and death. Routing methods have advanced from hand drawn maps to smart phones with dynamic routing using GPS, and new data science methods ...

When introducing commercial driving simulators a few years ago, the main interest was focused either on operating the vehicle or on the reactions of the driver in traffic and in emergency situations. A comprehensive modeling of the vehicle dynamics was not required for these tasks. However, there are driving simulator applications which make much higher demands on the modeling of the vehicle dy...

In the Netherlands, substantial amounts of hazardous materials are transported by road. Quantitative risk analyses are conducted to indicate the risks associated with these transport activities. In general, classified release volumes accompanied by probabilities are used in these risk analyses. Still, the application is limited to risk analysis instead of also being used for emergency response ...

The aim is to develop a robust methodology for dispatching and routing of emergency vehicles (EVs) in a post-disaster environment with the support of data fusion for decision-making. In this work we consider an earthquake scenario with a large number of casualties needing medical attention. With the influx of information (about the casualties, road and traffic conditions, etc.) data is fused to...

Covering a road network within a pre-specified time frame is the primary objective of any emergency service, including ambulances, firefighters and police. This research investigates the traffic police routine patrol vehicle assignment problem on an interurban road network. The difference between this and other emergency services is the need to consider additional requirements beyond the calls ...