scholarly journals A 36-Hour Unplugged Full-Scale Exercise: Closing the Gaps in Interagency Collaboration between the Disaster Medical Assistance Team and Urban Search and Rescue Team in Disaster Preparedness in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ning-Ping Foo ◽  
Edmund Cheung So ◽  
Nai-Chen Lu ◽  
Shih-Wei Hsieh ◽  
Shih-Tien Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Type I ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Rescue Team

Introduction. Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) and urban search and rescue team (USAR) need to cooperate seamlessly to save lives in disasters, but related research is limited. Objectives. To estimate the disaster preparedness of the DMAT and the barriers affecting interagency cooperation between the DMAT and the USAR team. Methods. This was an observational study of a full-scale exercise conducted in Taiwan from November 16 to 18, 2018. The exercise scenario simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake in Tainan City. DMATs from other counties were deployed and cooperated with local USAR teams to carry out disaster relief. Our study invited 7 experts to evaluate DMATs on disaster preparedness capabilities and the interagency collaboration between DMATs and USAR. Results. A total of eight DMATs, consisting of 30 physicians, 65 nurses, 74 logisticians, 5 health bureau personnel, and 85 USAR teams, participated in this exercise. During the mission, 176 patients were treated. The capabilities of each team were generally consistent with the basic technical standards for type I emergency medical teams, but the compliance rates for basic local anesthesia, cold chain equipment for medication, rapid blood test tools, and sterilization devices were only 50%, 12.5%, 12.5%, and 9%, respectively. In addition, 53% of participants reported abnormal vital signs, indicating that it was a high-stress situation. Moreover, the main barriers to interagency collaboration were differing perspectives and poor mutual understanding. Conclusion. A full-scale exercise carried out jointly with DMATs and USAR teams was valuable for disaster preparedness, particularly in terms of understanding the weaknesses of those teams and the barriers to interagency collaboration.

scholarly journals International Urban Search and Rescue Team Training: The Stress and Medical Complaints of Taskforce-1 of Taiwan

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. S31-S31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Chow-In Ko ◽  
Chang-Ping Su ◽  
Matthew Huei-Ming Ma ◽  
Fang-Yue Lin
Keyword(s):  
Team Training ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Rescue Team

Urban Search and Rescue with Anti-pheromone Robot Swarm architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Martin Garcia ◽  
Daniel Hernandez de la Iglesia ◽  
Juan F. de Paz ◽  
Valderi R. Q. Leithardt ◽  
Gabriel Villarrubia
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Robot Swarm

Multi-robot search and rescue team

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cai Luo ◽  
Andre Possani Espinosa ◽  
Danu Pranantha ◽  
Alessandro De Gloria
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Rescue Team ◽  
Multi Robot

scholarly journals Toward a Fully Autonomous UAV: Research Platform for Indoor and Outdoor Urban Search and Rescue

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodor Tomic ◽  
Korbinian Schmid ◽  
Philipp Lutz ◽  
Andreas Domel ◽  
Michael Kassecker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

Mobile Robotic Issues for Urban Search and Rescue

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 3098-3103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurvinder S. Virk ◽  
Yiannis Gatsoulis ◽  
Mudassir Parack ◽  
Afsha Kherada
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in urban search and rescue-methodology, capacity development, and integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Ariel Braverman, BSc, RN, EMT-P
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Emergency Operations ◽  
Ventilation Ducts ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Roadless Areas ◽  
Aerial Systems

This paper’s purpose is to establish a methodological basis for using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in urban search and rescue (USAR). Modern USAR operations involve the location, rescue (extrication), and initial medical stabilization of individuals trapped in confined spaces or places with complicated access, eg, high structures. As a part of the ongoing modernization process, this paper explores possible options for UAV utilization in USAR operations. Today, UAV are already taking part in support emergency operations all over the world, and possible forms of operation for UAV in USAR environment can be in two primary modes: on-site and logistic chain. The on-site mode includes various capabilities of multilayer UAV array, mostly based on enhanced visual capabilities to create situational awareness and to speed-up search and rescue (SAR) process including using nanodrones for entering into confined places, ventilation ducts, and underground sewer channels can give to rescue teams’ opportunities to have eyes within ruins even before initial clearing process. Cargo drones will be able to bring equipment directly to high floors or roadless areas in comparison to wheeled transportation. The advantages of cargo drones operation are the ability of autonomous flight based on GPS or homing beacon and ability to provide logistics supports without involving additional personnel and vehicles and with no dependence on road conditions.

Crack Growth During Full Scale Reeling Simulation of Pipes With Girth Welds

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oddvin O¨rjasaeter ◽  
Olav Jan Hauge ◽  
Guy Ba¨rs ◽  
Per Egil Kvaale
Keyword(s):  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
High Strain ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Final Fracture ◽  
Lack Of Fusion ◽  
Girth Welds

Installation of pipelines by reeling has proved to be an effective method. However, the pipe bending results in very high stress and strain and cannot be handled by conventional design rules, as stated in design codes, e.g. [2]: High strain crack growth must be assessed according to specific case-by-case selected criterions. In the present work the performance of 10” and 12 3/4” pipes with typical weld defects is studied — from initiation of cracks at notches to final fracture. Information was obtained from several sources: full scale cyclic bending of pipes, FE simulations, and small-scale tests. The plasticity during reeling operations results in substantial non-linear behavior due to varying cross section properties, cyclic creep, and different material response at tensile and compression side of the pipe. Hence, a full scale reeling simulation must be carefully planned and include sufficient tolerances. Critical cracks in pipe girth welds initiate mainly from the surface (undercuts, lack of penetration, or lack of fusion), but potentially also internally (lack of fusion or large pores). Various configurations of these parameters were investigated in full scale pipe tests. It was possible to verify both crack propagation during the reeling cycles, and the point of final fracture (for ECA verifications). In pipe design on must assure safe conditions for both reeling operations and for later in-service loading. Proper design tools must be available. Several methods for high strain crack growth analysis were considered and also compared to small-scale specimen data. Conventional strain-life methodology failed to predict the crack propagation accurately. A new approach including a tensile strain range parameter offered promising results.

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