The organization and implementation of anti-epidemic support in the Polish Armed Forces carrying out mandatory tasks in theatres of military operations poses a difficult and imperceptible problem in the field of medical assistance of military contingents. One of the operative instruments designed for limitation of the spread of infectious diseases and its health consequences among participants ...

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma (SCEH) is a rare clinical entity and has a varied etiology. Urgent surgical decompression should be done to prevent serious permanent neurologic deficits. We describe a 59-year-old female who presented with Brown-Sequard syndrome due to spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma. Initially, she was misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular accident. Cervical magnetic re...

Mandatory reporting of persons believed to be at imminent risk for committing violence or attempting suicide can pose an ethical dilemma for physicians, who might find themselves struggling to balance various conflicting interests. Legal statutes dictate general scenarios that require mandatory reporting to supersede confidentiality requirements, but physicians must use clinical judgment to det...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency, nature and outcomes of reports about health practitioners made by their treating practitioners under Australia's new mandatory reporting system. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective case file review and analysis of treating practitioner reports received by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency between 1 November 2011 and 31 January 2013, and of ...

To better understand household hurricane evacuation decisions, this paper addresses a limitation to existing hurricane evacuation modeling aspects by developing a dynamic model of hurricane evacuation behavior. A household’s evacuation decision is framed as an optimal stopping problem where every potential evacuation time period prior to the actual hurricane landfall, the household’s optimal ch...

Crowd evacuation from industrial buildings, factories, theatres, protest areas, festivals, exhibitions and religious/sports gatherings is very crucial in many dangerous scenarios, such as fire, earthquakes, threat and attacks. Simulation of crowd evacuation is an integral part of planning for emergency situations and training staff for crow management. In this paper, simulation of crowd evacuat...

With the full swing of computer technology, evacuation models are constructed and simulated via computers to study the various phenomena and behaviors during the evacuation process. They open unique potential opportunity to evaluate the architectural design and provide the decision support for the emergency evacuation plans. This paper details a capacity constrained route planner (CCRP) algorit...

The simulation of indoor evacuation is important for rescue and safety management, while a better visualization of simulation could help users to understand the evacuation plan better and to design the evacuation activities more effectively. The purpose of this paper is to show an indoor evacuation simulator with more realistic graphical user interface for both interacting and visualizing the s...

background and aim : about one-third of iranian children mortality is caused by injuries from which 36% occur due to road traffic injuries. using child restraint embedded in vehicles can reduce road traffic fatalities by 71% for neonates and 54% for children. based on its effectiveness in reduction of fatality and prevention of injury severity, child restraint usage mandatory law is a priority....

Traffic simulation models are helpful or even indispensable while planning or managing an evacuation. A multitude of dynamic traffic models have been developed to this end to understand and predict evacuation conditions on a road network, and the effect of traffic regulations and control measures hereon. In many earlier studies, evacuation is recognized as a special case regarding different tra...