The analysis of cascading effects in crisis situations can enhance crisis managers’ understanding of how crises unfold and what prominent triggers of cascading effects are. By identifying and categorising triggers of cascading effects, a greater understanding of critical points in crisis situations can be reached, which can contribute to strengthening practices of crisis management, including p...

During a crisis, the main goal for decision-makers consists in restoring a stabilized nominal mode. The stakeholders have to face an important pressure and drastic constraints of response time and coordination. This study proposes a method assisting these stakeholders in their choices while carrying out a performance evaluation of the activities run during the crisis response process. Currently...

BACKGROUND Pneumothorax is a potentially dangerous condition which may arise unexpectedly during anaesthesia. The diagnosis is one of exclusion, as initial changes in vital signs (cardiorespiratory decompensation and difficulty with ventilation) are non-specific, and other causes of such changes are more common, whereas local signs may be difficult to elicit, especially without full access to t...

When a crisis such as 9/11 occurs, it requires coordination and collaboration by a number of government agencies as well as the private sector with tightly choreographed activities from many organizations in multiple locations. Although there are accepted collaboration frameworks for operating in a “command and control” mode, where everyone understands who is in charge and what everyone‟s respo...

BACKGROUND Desaturation occurs for many reasons under anaesthesia, some rare and obscure, and many potentially life threatening. The rapidity with which the cause is determined and appropriate management is instituted varies considerably between anaesthetists. OBJECTIVES To examine the role of a previously described "core" algorithm COVER ABCD-A SWIFT CHECK, supplemented by a specific sub-alg...

Crisis response poses many of the most difficult information technology in crisis management. It requires information and communication-intensive efforts, utilized for reducing uncertainty, calculating and comparing costs and benefits, and managing resources in a fashion beyond those regularly available to handle routine problems. In this paper, we explore the benefits of artificial intelligenc...

Emergency response requires strategic assessment of risks, decisions, and communications that are timecritical while requiring teams of individuals to have fast access to large volumes of complex information and technologies that enables tightly coordinated work. The access to this information by crisis management (CM) teams in emergency operations centers can be facilitated through various hum...

The main aim of this paper is to present a clear and comprehensive picture of the process of a crisis in the organization which will help to better understand its possible developments. For a description of the sequence of individual steps and an indication of their causation and possible variants of the developments, a detailed flow diagram with verbal comment is applied. For simplicity, the p...