Military Applications

BUDDY changes the way you think about the battle field. Every commander involved in battle planning knows that evacuation of injured is one of the issues that must be taken under consideration. You have to take stretchers with you and you have to assign enough manpower to carry them back out of the fight. You have to assign several people to carry the stretcher and you need at least one soldier to secure them. So, if one soldier is injured, you lose many soldiers from the battle…. If you use BUDDY, it changes the whole picture. Two people can carry the injured soldier Read more…

A Mass Casualty event

In a mass casualty event, whether due to an earthquake, tsunami, war or terrorist attack, the evacuation forces must be very efficient. Firefighters, paramedics, police, National Guard, Homeland Security (HLS) or the army must be prepared to act in an unusual situation. Those forces have to evacuate injured, elderly and disabled from complicated environments. In some cases they will have to evacuate tens and hundreds of people through narrow stairways while others independently evacuate themselves by going down stairs Read more…

School and Youth Organizations Trips

When you plan a trip, you usually think about everything: water, food, first aid, security, communication, heat stress … everything. But, did you think about an evacuation of casualties? Well, sure you did! There are procedures for that. If something happened, all you have to do is call the local or site rescue teams and they will come and evacuate.  But, does it really happen this way? Most of the casualties (about 70%) are minor. So minor that it is not worth calling the rescue team Read more…