Free Software Helps Hospitals Prepare for Mass Casualties

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 19, 2007 11:25 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Gazette; By Gary Stephenson
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Johns Hopkins emergency medicine specialists have developed a tool to help hospitals prepare for disasters with the potential to overwhelm services. The Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios computer program calculates the impact of such crises as a flu epidemic, bioterrorist attack, flood or plane crash, accounting for such elements as numbers of victims, wind direction, available medical resources, bacterial incubation periods and bomb size.

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