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The optimization problem of medical rescue enforcements activities during mass casualty incident [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
W niniejszym artykule autor rozpatrzył zagadnienie optymalizacji działań ratownictwa medycznego w przypadku zdarzenia o charakterze masowym. Przedstawiono charakterystykę jakości działania Wojewódzkiego Systemu Ratownictwa (WSR) w przypadku zdarzeń o ...
Tomczyk, Łukasz
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Model Uniform Core Criteria for Mass Casualty Triage

open access: yes, 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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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of instruction on mass casualty incidents in baccalaureate nursing programs: Perceptions of nursing faculty

open access: yes, 2009
This study examined whether a relationship exists between mass casualty incident knowledge and perceived importance of incorporating competencies regarding mass casualty incidents into baccalaureate nursing programs by faculty in Louisiana.
Whitty, Kristin K., Burnett, Michael F.
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma stabilization points and humanitarian emergencies: implications for disaster and mass casualty incident response systems in the United States

open access: yes, 2022
Trauma stabilization points (TSPs) are mobile trauma clinics that are located very close (\u3c 5 kM/10 minutes) to the point of injury or mass casualty incident. These temporary clinics are staffed by doctors, nurses and/or paramedics and are designed to
Solchanyk, Daniel   +2 more
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Westgate Shootings: An Emergency Department Approach to a Mass-casualty Incident [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
At approximately 12:30 pm on Saturday September 21, 2013, armed assailants attacked the upscale Westgate shopping mall in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya. Using the seven key Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) principles, command,
Wachira, Benjamin   +2 more
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Manchester Arena bombing: lessons learnt from a mass casualty incident

open access: yes, 2018
On 22 May 2017 Salman Abedi detonated an improvised explosive device in the Manchester Arena resulting in 23 deaths (including the attacker). This was the deadliest terrorist attack on UK soil since the 2005 London bombings, but was only one of five mass
J S Pollard   +5 more
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions

open access: yesGlobal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Boom and Bust of Donor Development Regimes

open access: yesGlobal 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

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