Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
May 10, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Not all scientific publications are equally useful to policy-makers tasked with mitigating the spread and impact of diseases, especially at the start of novel epidemics and pandemics. The urgent need for actionable, evidence-based informat...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Feb 27, 2023
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led us to use virtual solutions and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). Recent studies have clearly demonstrated the role of AI in health care and medical practi...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Oct 13, 2022
Donald O. Besong has already documented that the online registration of unsupervised lateral flow test results poses concerns in the case of a serious pandemic where there are not enough medics to read scans or watch videos of candidates' results (Be...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Oct 10, 2022
OBJECTIVE: A danger threatening hospitals is fire. The most important action following a fire is to urgently evacuate the hospital during the shortest time possible. The aim of this study was to predict the duration of emergency evacuation following ...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Jun 30, 2022
Robotics have important applications in the field of disaster medical rescue. The deployment of urban rescue robots at the earthquake site can help shorten response time, improve rescue efficiency and keep rescue personnel away from danger. This disc...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Jun 17, 2021
Indexed literature (from 2015 to 2020) on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and machine learning algorithms (ML) pertaining to disasters and public health emergencies were reviewed. Search strategies were developed and conducted for PubMed an...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Jan 8, 2021
Many countries have enacted a quick response to the unexpected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by using existing technologies. For example, robotics, artificial intelligence, and digital technology have been deployed in hospitals and pub...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Nov 8, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The implementation of drones in the medical security system requires a proper planning of the cooperation of different services, dividing the area into sectors, assessing potential risks, and other factors. This study refers to the cost an...