Over the last decade, health care systems in general and emergency-care systems in particular are changing. They look for improving the quality of care, and enhancing their performance to face organizational, managerial and decision-making problems which affect them. In such context, professionals face several challenges to improve the quality of care delivered by the emergency care system or t...

Background: Emergency call centres, commonly known as “112” or “911”, are a crucial part of modern infrastructure. The location of the emergency, any related data, and good GIS support are required for their efficient operations. The location in particular is a vital piece of information but nevertheless often not obtained automatically at all or with insufficient accuracy, thus limiting both t...

In contemporary organizations, a wide gamut of options is available for sustaining and supporting health care operations. When disaster strikes, despite having tenable plans for routine replenishment and operations, many organizations find themselves ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and without effective mechanisms in place to sustain operations during the immediate aftermath of a crisis. Health car...

Multitask emergency logistics planning is a complex optimization problem in practice. When disaster occurs, relief materials or rescue teams should be dispatched to destinations as soon possible. In nutshell, the can described an of multipoint-to-multipoint transportation delivery given multimodal traffic network. this study, network considered for planning, and mixed-integer programming (MIP) ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the circumstances surrounding the Asian tsunami emergency of 2004 and to propose a relief logistics model that suggests an alternative response mechanism to those which are currently in place. The tsunami waves that hit Thailand on December 26th 2004 and the chaos that followed highlighted the very low level of preparedness on the part of the Thai authori...

Networks provide the physical and information structure of systems for transporting all food, water, people, information and goods within our modern life. Emergency Management (EM) organizations need to have highly functioning logistics networks as key towards supporting and aiding affected populations in disasters or conflicts. Optimization has made immense strides towards improving logistics ...

The value of emergency endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in the setting of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm remains controversial owing to differing results. However, interpretation of published results remains difficult as there is a lack of generally accepted protocols or standard operating procedures. Furthermore, such protocols and standard operating procedures often are reported incomp...

There are six major steps involved in responding to rapidly spreading poultry disease outbreaks including biosecurity, surveillance, quarantine, mass emergency depopulation, mass carcass disposal, and decontamination. Water-based foam is one of the methods used for mass emergency depopulation during severe disease outbreaks. This project evaluated the logistics of foam depopulation in two exper...

BACKGROUND Preparedness of health care professionals for emergency situations is quite indispensable in quality health care; yet, information barely exists on the preparedness of health care professionals for emergency cases in health facilities in Ghana. This study sought to assess the preparedness of health professionals in preventing maternal mortality cases at a public health facility in Gh...