Project description
Enhanced triage and pre-hospitalisation services for emergency medical response
The immediate aftermath of terrorist attacks or natural disasters is often several mass casualty incident (MCI) scenes. Responding to such emergencies requires access to the most advanced tools and updated processes. The EU-funded NIGHTINGALE project, gathering the EU’s finest technology providers and medical responders, will develop, integrate, test, deploy, demonstrate and validate a Novel Integrated Toolkit for Emergency Medical Response. The Toolkit shall enhance triage and pre-hospitalisation procedures by increasing efficiency and effectiveness of handling victims whilst boosting awareness, collaboration and coordination of the responders. The Toolkit and the updated protocols are expected to be tested in realistic conditions in the framework of a rich training and validation programme hosted by a multitude of medical responders across the EU.
Objective
In a world where disasters and crises also evolve and cross boundaries with speed and ease , their complexity and magnitude increase, and societal repercussions often reach severe scales, it is imperative to increase citizens’ upkeep and feeling of safety and provide affected people the top-level healthcare that modern technology and current civil protection systems can offer. However, today’s emergency medical services and non-medical civil protection practitioners in a mass casualty incident scene, striving to save lives and nursing the injured, often have to rely on complicated or even outdated procedures (multiple protocols or lack of homogeneity in response methods and guidelines) and technology of the past. NIGHTINGALE will develop, integrate, test, deploy, demonstrate and validate a Novel Integrated Toolkit for Emergency Medical Response (NIT-MR) which ensures an upgrade to Pre-hospital life support and Triage. This will comprise a multitude of tools, services and applications required for 1) upgrading evaluation of injured and affected population and handle casualties (Triage) by offering them the means to perform digital identification, allow traceability, support fast diagnosis and prognosis and continuous monitoring and enable accurate classification of medical condition; 2) optimising pre-hospital life support and damage control through AI-based tracking, tracing, routing and utilisation enhancements of assets, resources and capacities as well as enabling continuous monitoring and correlation of vital signs and actions; 3) allowing shared response across emergency medical services, non-medical civil protection personnel, volunteers and citizens. The NIT-MR is provided at the service of the emergency medical services, non-medical civil protection personnel, volunteers and citizens for extensive testing, training and validation in the framework of a rich Training and Validation Programme of 5 Round Tables, 3 TTXs, 1 Laboratory Integration and 3 FSXs.
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164 90 Stockholm
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00195 Roma
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AL1 4QE St Albans
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1253 Luxembourg
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1000 029 LISBOA
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118 54 ATHENS
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46022 Valencia
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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75009 Paris
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1500 618 Lisbon
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33003 Oviedo
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3100 Unterwagram
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182 39 Danderyd
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13100 Vercelli
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75012 Paris
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20123 Milano
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00168 Roma
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00184 Rome
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17100 Savona
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6021805 OR YEHUDA
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A96 PR60 Dublin
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00183 ROMA
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4610101 Herzliya
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12489 Berlin
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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