ISCRAM 2013: Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
1. Practitionersâ Track
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements
for Exercise-Support and Simulation
Matthias Max, German Red Cross
Johannes Sautter, Fraunhofer IAO
2. Real-life exercises have a set of limitations:
ī§ Lack of possibilities to vary the location and condition of injured
ī§ Difficult to achieve realistic time and capacity constraints
ī§ Costs in time and money to prepare the exercise
ī§ Impossibility to repeat the exercise in every detail
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
3. ISCRAM Summer School 2012
Motivation and Visions
Real-life exercises are crucial and necessary to train leading
personnel and first responders in handling special situations, but are
difficult and costly to organize
Vision 1: Computer-based simulation of tactical workflows
ī§allow crisis managers to elaborate suitable strategies
ī§for short-term planning of alternative tactical decisions
Vision 2: Exercise-leader-support during exercise runs and for
debriefing
ī§Gathering of key performance data (times and decisions)
ī§Reporting and visualization of workflows, times and decisions
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
4. Context
ī§ Rural first responder unit at district level in
Germany
ī§ Exercise in summer 2012
ī§ Observation and subsequent interviews
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
5. Scenario description
ī§ A bus that crashes into a car
ī§ 50 people injured
ī§ Realistic scenario
ī§ This kind of scenario could happen
everywhere and every time.
Accident
Alert at Command & Control Center
9:00 AM 09:13
Start Operational Phase
Arrival on site,
Hazard Analysis
Pre-Triage
09:18
Spatial planning
09:22 09:37 10:13
Transportation to hospitals
09:25
All injured on the
way to hospitals
Treatment of patients (on site, in vehicle)
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
6. Spatial planning
Output data
vehicle logistic workflows: time needed to establish parking order
User needs for short-term planning simulation tool
ī§ Pre-configuration: Local locations and capabilities (e.g. emergency
services and hospitals)
ī§ Input from user: Simulation of different alternatives to position
patients depot and an optional vehicle queue
ī§ Output of Simulation run: workflow times (e.g. walking with patient
stretcher) dependent on vehicle positions
Use cases during exercise
ī§ exercise data steward: maintain geographic locations for live-
monitoring,
ī§ exercise leader: exercise-monitoring, estimation of the effectiveness
of different spatial strategies
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
7. Triage and transportation to patient depot
Output data
ī§ Stretcher transport time (out of the damage zone to the
patientsâ depot/vehicles)
ī§ Available responders for carrying
User needs for simulation tool
ī§ Pre-configuration: Integration of validated medical data on
patients behavior
ī§ Pre-configuration: Disease and injury patterns dependent on
time and the type of medical treatment.
Use cases during exercise
ī§ Exercise data steward: assess triaged patients from the first
responders in training/patient actors
ī§ exercise leader: identify problems during the pre-triage,
monitor capacity bottlenecks.
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
8. Transportation to the hospital
Output data
ī§ Time vehicle/helicopter needs to arrive at the hospital/at the incident
scene again.
User needs for simulation tool
ī§ Pre-configuration: The integration of local road maps, geo-referenced
collection of all hospitals in the districts around (150 km)
ī§ Output of Simulation run: real-time data on surgery capacities in the
hospitals, real-time traffic data, data on weather conditions.
Use cases during exercise
ī§ exercise data steward: gather data from command vehicle
ī§ exercise leader: e.g. report problems with vehicle queue and
departure workflow
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
9. Conclusion
ī§ Exact proceeding of a first responder exercise was analysed
ī§ Three relevant phases were identified
ī§ Output data, user needs and use cases were extracted
ī§ End-user requirements were identified:
ī§ Exercise-support software solution
ī§ Utilization of output data for simulation
tools
ī§ Improvement of training, future
exercises and capacity/resources
planning by region-specific
simulation tool
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
10. Thank You Very Much!
Contact
Matthias Max, MaxM@drk.de
Johannes Sautter, johannes.sautter@iao.fraunhofer.de
This research is funded by EU FP7/07â13, grant agreement n° 284552 within
CRISMA â Modelling crisis management for
improved action and preparedness
www.crismaproject.eu
Analysis of a German First Responder Exercise: Requirements for Exercise-Support and Simulation
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