Data Management in Mass Casualty Incidents: The e-Triage Project
Thomas Greiner-Mai, Anton Donner · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2010
Abstract: The main drawback of paper-based registration systems for organizing mass casualty incidents (MCIs) is that information about affected persons remains among the persons themselves. Data can be duplicated/aggregated by laborious manual copying triage tags only, and the normal medium for exchanging information are voicebased radio systems. Since MCIs normally overwhelm the regularly available rescue resources aparticularly effective crisis management has to be applied. Operational command centers and rescue forces need information as fast as possible about type and number of injuries, so that each affected or injured person gets optimal care. This paper gives ageneral survey of the e-Triage project, in which acoherent overall concept for aMCI data management system is studied. 1