Disasters have the potential to cripple a country and those countries that are particularly susceptible to disasters must have adequate disaster recovery plans in place to ensure that the country can return to normalcy as soon as possible after the disaster. These plans will involve a number of autonomous entities that need to be able to communicate and coordinate their activities effectively. ...

Disasters have the potential to cripple a country and those countries that are particularly susceptible to disasters must have effective disaster recovery plans (DRP) in place to ensure that the country can return to normalcy as soon as possible after the devastation. However, for the plan to be effective it must be of high quality, which is often viewed as a multidimensional concept containing...

various disasters are still inevitable and over the last two decades, affected lives of at least 800 million people. iran is one of the most disaster-prone countries and about 90% of the country are at risks of earthquakes or floods. thus, the disaster management in our country is a priority. in recent years, several protocols have been put forward to manage the emergencies and disasters. in th...

INTRODUCTION Currently, there is no widely available method to evaluate an emergency department disaster plan. Creation of a standardized patient database and the use of a virtual, live exercise may lead to a standardized and reproducible method that can be used to evaluate a disaster plan. PURPOSE A virtual, live exercise was designed with the primary objective of evaluating a hospital's eme...

OBJECTIVES To assess hospital emergency nurses' self-reported knowledge, role awareness and skills in disaster response with respect to the Hajj mass gathering in Mecca. DESIGN Cross-sectional online survey with primary data collection and non-probabilistic purposive sample conducted in late 2014. SETTING All 4 public hospitals in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS 106 registered nurses in...

P andemic influenza, by its nature, is a healthcare disaster. Healthcare organizations are the unique reservoirs of the essential knowledge and tools for handling such a pandemic; they have infection-control procedures, universal precautions, and personal protective equipment for virus protection. Because of this, healthcare organizations run the risk of being the scapegoat if this pandemic is ...

Blood transfusion plays a critical role in the provision of medical care for disasters due to man-made and natural hazards. Although the short-term increase in blood donations following national disasters is well-documented, some aspects of blood transfusion during disasters remain under study. The 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran resulted in the death of >29,000 people and injured 23,000. In total...

A critical component of disaster recovery planning is testing, which involves verification of the effectiveness of the DR solutions. Currently, there are several limitations that plagues disaster testing efforts such as the inability to create realistic disaster scenarios and test them in a production environment. Cyber Range Concept of Operations (CONOPS) presents an opportunity for overcoming...