AI Article Synopsis
- Near field communications (NFC) technology can enhance disaster management by improving patient tracking during emergencies.
- A smartphone app was developed that tracks patient flow in real time and was evaluated through a table-drill exercise.
- The results indicated significant improvements in the efficiency and accuracy of managing patients in chaotic situations like mass casualties.
Article Abstract
Near field communications (NFC) is an emerging technology that may potentialy assist with disaster management. A smartphone-based app was designed to help track patient flow in real time. A table-drill was held as a brief evaluation and it showed significant imporvement in both efficacy and accuracy of patient management. It is feasible to use NFC-embedded smartphones to clarify the ambiguous and chaotic patient flow in a mass casualty incident.
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