Improving emergency response to mass casualty incidents

6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 256-259

  Da Silva, Marcus Lucas ^a   Kostakos, Vassilis ^b   Matsumoto, Mitsuji ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HEALTH CONDITION; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; PERVASIVE SYSTEMS;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 49149089992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2008.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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