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Emergency Staff Perceptions of Mass Casualty Management Effectiveness in Lebanese Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study

Panorama of Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Mass Casualty Incidents (MCIs) present significant challenges to hospitals, often overwhelming available resources and requiring rapid, coordinated responses.
Eliana Ghazal, Dunya Nohra, Hilda Chelala, Maha Nehme   +3 more
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Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
wiley   +1 more source

Acceptability and applicability of using virtual reality for training mass casualty incidents- a mixed method study

BMC Medical Education
Background Because health professionals can end up being first responders to a mass casualty incident, they must train to improve preparedness and increase the preconditions of victim outcomes.
Sara Heldring, Maria Jirwe, Jonas Wihlborg, Veronica Lindström   +3 more
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Model Uniform Core Criteria for Mass Casualty Triage

, 2011
There is a need for model uniform core criteria for mass casualty triage because disasters frequently cross jurisdictional lines and involve responders from multiple agencies who may be using different triage tools.

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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Optimizing dynamic diversion decision-making in mass gatherings through multi-agent reinforcement learning: A retrospective real-world data-driven simulation study

Intelligent Medicine
Background: Mass gatherings pose significant risks of mass casualty incidents, where static triage protocols often fail to balance individual patient urgency with global emergency resource constraints, leading to preventable mortality.
Zhuyi Shen, Yu Tian, Gang Cheng, Ruiqi Tu, Yu Wang, Chengkai Wu, Yanteng Li, Yuhua Zheng, Jianning Zhang, Jingsong Li   +9 more
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The Boom and Bust of Donor Development Regimes

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across the Global North, support for international development is weakening. This raises an important question: Under what conditions does international solidarity become politically sustainable? This article addresses that question through a historical case study of the Netherlands, one of the strongest donor countries of the post‐war era and
Dirk‐Jan Koch
wiley   +1 more source

Turning the World Health Organization Emergency Medical Team Experiences Into Actionable Standards as Climate Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents and Conflict Outpace Our Systems of Response

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Barclay T. Stewart
wiley   +1 more source

Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Hospital Staff Surge Capacity on Preparedness for a Conventional Mass Casualty Event

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2010
OBJECTIVES: To assess current medical staffing levels within the Hospital Referral System in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa, and analyze the surge capacity needs to prepare for the potential of a conventional mass casualty ...
Welzel, Tyson B MD, Koenig, Kristi L MD, Bey, Tareg MD, Visser, Errol BSc, MB, ChB   +3 more
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