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Telecommunications systems in support of disaster medicine: applications of basic information pathways.
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Various telecommunications tools that can enhance medical response in a disaster and includes those associated with telemedicine (providing medical care from a distance through telecommunications) are explored.About:
This article is published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.The article was published on 1999-08-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Disaster medicine & Disaster recovery.read more
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Information Technology and Emergency Medical Care during Disasters
TL;DR: Next-generation wireless Internet and geopositioning technologies may have the greatest impact on improving communications, information management, and overall disaster response and emergency medical care.
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Hospital preparedness for weapons of mass destruction incidents: an initial assessment.
Kimberly N. Treat,Janet M. Williams,Paul M. Furbee,William G. Manley,Floyd K. Russell,Clarence D. Stamper +5 more
TL;DR: Hospitals in this sample do not appear to be prepared to handle WMD events, especially in areas such as mass decontamination, mass medical response, awareness among health care professionals, health communications, and facility security.
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Terrorism and the ethics of emergency medical care
TL;DR: Emergency care providers, personnel, hospital administrators, religious leaders, and medical ethics committees need to engage in bioethical decision making before an acute bioterrorist event.
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Hospital responses to acute-onset disasters: a review.
TL;DR: This paper first focuses on common problems encountered during acute-onset disasters, with regards to hospital operations and caring for victims, and lessons learned from past disaster-related operational failures.
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Theory and Applications of Telemedicine
TL;DR: Telemedicine is the use of modern telecommunications and information technologies for the provision of clinical care to individuals at a distance, and transmission of information to provide that care.
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Disaster planning and response.
TL;DR: The United Nations General Assembly has declared the 1990s the International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction and has called for a worldwide effort to reduce the loss of life and property.
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Applications of Telemedicine and Telecommunications to Disaster Medicine: Historical and Future Perspectives
TL;DR: Emergency care providers must begin to plan effectively to utilize disaster-specific telemedicine applications to improve future outcomes, based on lessons learned from a decade of civilian and military disaster (wide-area) telemedICine deployments.
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Telemedicine and international disaster response. Medical consultation to Armenia and Russia via a Telemedicine Spacebridge.
Bruce A. Houtchens,Terry P. Clemmer,Harry C. Holloway,Alexander A. Kiselev,James S. Logan,Ronald C. Merrell,Arnauld Nicogossian,Haik A. Nikogossian,Russell B Rayman,Ashot E. Sarkisian,John H. Siegel +10 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that interactive consultation by remote specialists can provide valuable assistance to on-site physicians and favorably influence clinical decisions in the aftermath of major disasters.
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Mobile satellite communications systems: Toward global personal communications
TL;DR: The constraints imposed by the RF environment are reviewed and an overview of present and planned mobile satellite systems is given.
Book
The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications
TL;DR: In the early 1990s, the United States was in a technology-push situation rather than demand-pull as mentioned in this paper, and a major shift in the direction of telecommunications was made.
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