TOXI-Triage

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

Research led by Loughborough University 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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