OBJECTIVE To assess the responses of physicians to providing emergency medical assistance outside of routine clinical care. We assessed the percentage who reported previous Good Samaritan behaviour, their responses to hypothetical situations, their comfort providing specific interventions and the most likely reason they would not intervene. SETTING Physicians residing in North Carolina. PAR...

Timely and accurate processing of crisis information and effective communication have been documented as critical elements of disaster relief operations. Despite the lessons learned from previous crises, preparing information for humanitarian assistance and ineffective information sharing remain a recurring and almost impossible task for relief agencies. The purpose of this paper is to propose ...

Introduction: Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team (JDMAT) consists of four personnel. They are selected in 47 local governments Japan, and after the completion a day boot camp, they registered list JDMAT. Hyogo Emergency Center (HEMC) has been playing an important role as one oldest camps with Tachikawa. The camp's significance is obvious, but JDMAT system requires trainer for course. Many c...

BACKGROUND Large family size may be a risk factor for childhood accidents. A possible association with quality of child supervision and rapidity of seeking medical care has not been fully evaluated. OBJECTIVES To determine whether children with multiple siblings are at increased risk for accidents, to assess whether quality of child supervision varies with family size, and to evaluate the rel...

BACKGROUND On 21 June 2005, a passenger train collided with a truck near Revadim, Israel. The collision resulted in a multiple-scene mass-casualty incident in an area characterized by difficult access and a relatively long distance from trauma centers. A major disaster response was initiated by civilian and military medical forces including the Israeli Air Force (IAF) Search and Rescue teams. T...

To perform complex tasks, a team of robots requires both reactive and deliberative planning. For reactive control, a restricted variant of Linear Temporal Logic called General Reactivity(1) can be used to synthesize correct-byconstruction controllers in polynomial time, but they often ignore time and resource constraints to maintain tractable synthesis. For deliberation, hierarchical planning c...

BACKGROUND The disaster response environment in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake represented a complex healthcare challenge. This study was designed to identify challenges during the Haiti disaster response. METHODS Qualitative and quantitative study of injured patients carried out six months after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to review the surgical inputs of foreign medical teams....

BACKGROUND Disaster is a serious public health issue. Health professionals and community residents are main players in disaster responses but their knowledge levels of disaster medicine are not readily available. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge levels and training needs of disaster medicine among potential disaster responders and presented a necessity to popularize disaster medicine educ...