As a nation, America is faced with the ongoing threat of terrorist activity from individuals and groups throughout the world and at home. In response to this reality, it is critical that steps be taken in the workplace to prevent acts of terrorism where possible, and be prepared to minimize adverse effects of terrorism that cannot be prevented. It is essential that traditional emergency prepare...

Stroke mimics are an important consideration for emergency physicians and physician extenders working in emergency departments. The emergency medicine physician must determine whether the acute neurologic deficits represent a transient event or a potential stroke. This article describes the common stroke mimic presentations by cause, including toxic-metabolic pathologies, seizure disorders, deg...

Background and Objectives: Violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. This type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac‌tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

Pandemic influenza remains a potential major threat to global public health. It is essential for emergency departments to be involved in planning for the management of such a major event. It is also important for emergency departments to be clear on their internal arrangements for staff and for patient care. This paper outlines 10 suggestions for UK emergency departments based on the recent exp...

BACKGROUND Heart failure-related hospital readmissions and mortality are often outcomes in clinical trials. Patients may experience multiple hospital readmissions over time with mortality acting as a dependent terminal event. Univariate composite end points are used for the analysis of readmissions. We may amend these approaches to include emergency department visits as a further outcome. An al...

This paper describes the initial work on developing an all-hazards emergency event detector using messages obtained in near-real-time from the public timeline of the Chinese Sina Weibo microblogging service. The system filters target keywords corresponding to emergency events of earthquakes, floods, typhoons, fires and storms and then uses classifiers to identify messages from people experienci...

This paper describes and discusses analysis of an emergency management exercise. In the exercise scenario, different emergency management organizations jointly try to cope with a forest fire and related incidents. The Extended Control Model is utilized for examination of the establishment of en emergent emergency response organization. Ambiguity in how functions are to be handled in a large eve...