BACKGROUND A lack of authentic learning opportunities influence the quality of emergency training of nursing students. The purpose of this article is to describe how the step-up action research model was used to improve the quality of trauma-related educational practice of undergraduate nursing students. OBJECTIVES To reduce deaths caused by trauma, healthcare workers should be competent to p...

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) are characterized by a large number of victims with respect to the resources available. In this study, we aimed to analyze the changes produced in the self-perception of students who were able to visualize aerial views of a simulation of a MCI. A simulation study, mixed method, was performed to compare the results from an ad hoc questionnaire. The 35 students from ...

Handling highly dynamic scenarios as they arise in mass casualty incident (MCI) situations requires lots of information about the situation and an extremely flexible IT infrastructure that can assist in managing the incident. Normally, rescue workers from different organisational cultures do not communicate across their organisational boundaries, but in an MCI they have to efficiently collabora...

For some time now, it has been recognised that a major shift is occurring in the population age distributions of most motorised countries resulting in a growing number of older persons with an increasing need for mobility. It is expected that the mobility of older persons will become even more reliant on the motor vehicle as European countries in particular undergo transitions towards decentral...

Automatic incident detection (AID) plays a vital role among all the safety-critical applications under parasol of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) to provide timely information passengers and other stakeholders (hospitals rescue, police, insurance departments) in smart cities. Moreover, accurate classification these incidents with respect type severity assists Traffic Incident Manageme...

This research analyses the main causal factors that lead to road accidents. Particular focus has been on demographics of drivers and in particular age group given younger account for highest number safety-related incident/ accidents fatalities. Other impacting safety include adequacy national driver training system, legislative requirements organisational solutions ensuring safety. Behavioural ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that road traffic accidents represent the third leading cause of ‘death and disease’ worldwide. Many countries have, therefore, launched safety campaigns that are intended to reduce road traffic accidents by increasing public awareness. In almost every case, however, a reduction in the total number of fatalities has not been matched by a comparable f...

Antarctica is one of the most remote regions on Earth. Mass casualty incident (MCI) responses in Antarctica are prone to complications from multiple environmental and operational challenges. This review of the current status of MCI risks and response strategies for Antarctica focuses on aeromedical evacuation, a critical component of many possible MCI scenarios. Extreme cold and weather, a lack...

A. Donner, C. Adler, M. Ben-Amar, and M. Werner 1 DLR, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Münchner Str. 20, 82234 WeßlingOberpfaffenhofen, Germany 2 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Departement Psychologie, Leopoldstr. 13, 80802 München, Germany 3 Euro-DMS Ltd., Anzengruberstr. 10A, 82140 Olching, Germany 4 TriaGnoSys GmbH, Argelsrieder Feld 22, 82234 Weßling, Germany anton.donn...