TY - GEN
T1 - Indirect tracking of patients in mass casualty incidents
AU - Nestler, Simon
AU - Coskun, Tayfur
AU - Artinger, Eva
AU - Pichlmaier, Peter
AU - Klinker, Gudrun
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In MCIs (mass casualty incidents) patient tracking is cumbersome when using paper based approaches. Due to the fact that the spatial positions of the patients are essential in MCIs, we equipped the relief workers with electronic devices. We analyzed two concepts for patient tracking: direct and indirect tracking. The indirect tracking turned out to be superior with regard to the requirements from Feuerwehr TUM (Technische Universität München). An implementation and evaluation of this concept was performed within the scope of the SpeedUp project1. This project focuses on the development of strategies for reacting in mass casualty incidents (MCIs) in an appropriate way. In this paper we describe the background, the requirements, the concepts, the implementation and the evaluation. Finally, the results are presented and discussed.
AB - In MCIs (mass casualty incidents) patient tracking is cumbersome when using paper based approaches. Due to the fact that the spatial positions of the patients are essential in MCIs, we equipped the relief workers with electronic devices. We analyzed two concepts for patient tracking: direct and indirect tracking. The indirect tracking turned out to be superior with regard to the requirements from Feuerwehr TUM (Technische Universität München). An implementation and evaluation of this concept was performed within the scope of the SpeedUp project1. This project focuses on the development of strategies for reacting in mass casualty incidents (MCIs) in an appropriate way. In this paper we describe the background, the requirements, the concepts, the implementation and the evaluation. Finally, the results are presented and discussed.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874248399
SN - 9783885792703
T3 - INFORMATIK 2010 - Service Science - Neue Perspektiven fur die Informatik, Beitrage der 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V. (GI)
SP - 156
EP - 161
BT - INFORMATIK 2010 - Service Science - Neue Perspektiven fur die Informatik, Beitrage der 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V. (GI)
T2 - 40th Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V. (GI): Service Science - Neue Perspektiven fur die Informatik 40th Annual Conf. of the German Informatics Society (GI): Service Science - New Perspectives in Computer Science INFORMATIK 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -