BACKGROUND Emergency responders are among the first to arrive at a pesticide-related release event. Magnitude, severity, and risk factor information on acute pesticide poisoning among those workers is needed. METHODS Survey data collected from the SENSOR-Pesticides, CDPR and HSEES programs between 1993 and 2002 from 21 states were reviewed. Acute occupational pesticide-related illness inciden...

In April 2013, the Thomas County Health Department notified the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Response section (KDHE) of two cases of cryptosporidiosis among emergency responders to a tractor-trailer rollover. The truck was carrying approximately 350 preweaned Holstein calves. An outbreak investigation was led by KDHE with assistance from the ...

FirstAED is a supplement to the existing emergency response systems. The aim is to shorten the community first responder response times at emergency calls to below five minutes in a bridge connected island area. FirstAED defines a way to dispatch the nearby three first responders and organise their roles in a team structure to reduce response times, ensure citizens’ safety and offer equal possi...

This paper introduces a novel navigation system for walking persons. The system is of particular benefit for emergency responders, who often have to enter and move around in large structures where GPS is unavailable. We refer to our system as “Personal Odometry System” (POS). The POS measures the position of a walking person relative to a known starting position, such as the entrance to a build...

The balance of safety and wellbeing of the public is disturbed by an emergency situation. Emergency responders try to mitigate this danger and restore the balance of public welfare and security during an emergency. This act is termed as emergency response. These emergencies could occur at a national level and hence they can be large and complex which could necessitate in the cooperation of seve...

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, , and how this panel can be used as an intelligent to-do list that assists emergency responders in applying pre-defined standard operating procedures in different types of emergencies. In particular, multiple instances of I-X Process Panels can be used ...

During many crises, access to sensitive emergency-support information is required to save lives and property. For example, for effective evacuations first responders need the names and addresses of non-ambulatory residents. Yet, currently, access to such information may not be possible because government policy makers and third-party data providers lack confidence that today’s IT systems will p...

Use of emergency messaging system is a key to effective communication in healthcare applications by emergency responders during calamity. Evolving high speed wireless networks facilitate to connect emergency responders to an emergency electronic routing directory, data sharing systems, handling real time emergency information among multiple services. In this paper we analyze the performance of ...

The National Symposium on Risk and Prevention of Infectious Diseases for Emergency Response Personnel was held in September, 1994. This meeting explored Emergency Responders’ risks of occupational exposure to infectious diseases, pre-exposure prevention activities, and post-exposure management programs. Emergency Responders strongly believed that they have the right to be informed of specific p...