TOXI-Triage

Revolutionising the way emergency services across the world tackle life threatening incidents

Research led by º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ seeks to set the new global ‘Gold Standard’ for how emergency services should tackle a chemical, biological, radioactive, or nuclear (CBRN) incident.

In an age where a CBRN emergency, both accidental and deliberate, poses a real threat to society, new integrated systems and technologies are needed to aid first responders and enhance the protection of citizens.

The multi-million pound TOXI-Triage project, which brings together experts from across Europe, is creating novel ways to give effective and diagnostically sound medical and toxic assessments to the casualties of a CBRN event amid the confusion, disorder, and dangers it would bring.

These new technologies and systems will revolutionise the way emergency services across the world tackle a CBRN incident.

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What is TOXI-Triage?

The multi-million pound TOXI-Triage project brings together emergency and health services, defence, industry, and university academics.
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Accurate and rapid CBRN diagnosis

Creating new technologies to detect CBRN agents from a simple breath, saliva or skin test
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Crisis Comms

Producing new recommendations to guide official communications during a CBRN emergency
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The crisis journey

Mapping each stage and operational level of an emergency response
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Toxi-Motive

Using social media to detect and track a crisis situation
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UAV chemical detection

Air sampling technology small enough to be carried by a drone
Emergency services workers taking part in a field trial in Athens

Putting the TOXI-Triage technologies to the test in Athens

The TOXI-Triage project team joined forces with the Greek Ministry of National Defence to run a full scale field trial of its mass casualty diagnostic technologies and systems.

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