[californiadisasters] Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios

Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment and Planning Scenarios

James J. Scheulen, MBA, PA, and Gai Cole, MBA, MHA.

This standalone software program is intended to allow users to model disaster scenarios for drill planning and to use as an education resource. The EMCAPS Model allows you to estimate casualties arising from biological (Anthrax, Plague, Food Contamination), chemical (blister, nerve and toxic agents) radiological (dirty bomb) or explosive (IED) attacks. These scenarios are based on the Department of Homeland Security Planning Scenarios (April 2005).

When you run the EMCAPS Model, you are able to select one of the scenarios we have listed above and adjust the various inputs (e.g., bomb size, population density, quantity of release, wind speed, etc) to most closely simulate your own environment. For the selected scenario, EMCAPS will then estimate casualties including levels of acuity. In other words, EMCAPS allows you to model the selected scenarios for your own community.

This tool is intended to allow plausible scenarios to be reasonably modeled to help planners better understand and assess preparedness and response capabilities needs. It is not intended to precisely model the physical behavior of WMD threat agents or the outcomes of specific threat condition.

EMCAPS was a joint effort between, and funded in part by: the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR); Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHAPL); the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER).

We hope you find EMCAPS helpful to your planning efforts. For questions related to this tool please contact us

Download EMCAPS ›

Source: http://www.pacercenter.org/toolkit/emcaps.aspx

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