Creating realistic nerve agent victim profiles for computer simulation of medical CBRN disaster response.

ABSTRACT: In the last decades, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats have become serious risks prompting countries to prioritize preparedness for such incidents. As CBRN scenarios are very difficult and expensive to recreate in real life, computer simulation is particularly suited for assessing the effectiveness of contingency plans and identifying areas of improvement. These computer simulation exercises require realistic and dynamic victim profiles, which are unavailable in a civilian context. In this paper we present a set of civilian nerve agent injury profiles consisting of clinical parameters and their evolution, as well as the methodology used to create them. These injury profiles are based on military injury profiles and adapted to the civilian population, using sarin

SUBMITTER: De Rouck R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10347399 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature