Citation

Disraelly DS, Walsh TJ, Zirkle RA. J. Def. Model. Simul. Appl. Methodol. Technol. 2010; 7(4): 226-240.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1548512910376176

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Human Response Injury Profile (HRIP) methodology incorporates three different agent-specific approaches to provide an estimate of casualties occurring as a consequence of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks against military targets for planning purposes. The three approaches — chemical, radiological, and nuclear; non-contagious biological; and contagious biological — all develop user-defined, time-based casualty and fatality estimates based on maps, or progressions, of underlying symptoms (and signs for biological agents) and their severity changes over time. This paper provides a general overview of the HRIP, as well as of each of the three component approaches, including inputs, human response, and the casualty estimation processes.