Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mass-casualty > simulator aims to make disaster planning more precise

The number and types of mass casualties a hospital might expect from a terror incident is usually just supposition, handicapping planners with inexact estimates. A new version of a free, Web-based simulation tool developed at Johns Hopkins University removes much of this guesswork from disaster-planning equations.

Mass-casualty simulator aims to make disaster planning more preciseThe Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios system, or EMCAPS, predicts the mass casualty impact on individual hospitals Read more...

By Doug Page

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