Will Emergency Health Care Providers Respond to Mass Casualty Incidents?

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
James I. Syrett ◽  
John G Benitez ◽  
William H. Livingston ◽  
Eric A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Mass Casualty Incidents ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emergency Health Care

scholarly journals The Significance of Witness Sensors for Mass Casualty Incidents and Epidemic Outbreaks (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Long Pan ◽  
Chih-Hao Lin ◽  
Yan-Ren Lin ◽  
Hsin-Yu Wen ◽  
Jet-Chau Wen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Mass Casualty Incidents ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Novel Concept

UNSTRUCTURED Due to the increasing number of natural and man-made disasters, mass casualty incidents occur more often than ever before. As a result, health care providers need to adapt in order to cope with the overwhelming patient surge. To ensure quality and safety in health care, accurate information in pandemic disease control, death reduction, and health quality promotion should be highlighted. However, obtaining precise information in real time is an enormous challenge to all researchers of the field. In this paper, innovative strategies are presented to develop a sound information network using the concept of “witness sensors.” To overcome the reliability and quality limitations of information obtained through social media, researchers must focus on developing solutions that secure the authenticity of social media messages, especially for matters related to health. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel concept based on the two elements of “witness” and “sensor.” Witness sensors can be key players designated to minimize limitations to quality of information and to distinguish fact from fiction during critical events. In order to enhance health communication practices and deliver valid information to end users, the education and management of witness sensors should be further investigated, especially for implementation during mass casualty incidents and epidemic outbreaks.

Does Self-reporting Facilitate History Taking in Food Poisoning Mass-casualty Incidents?

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-I Hsu ◽  
Ying C. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Mass Casualty Incidents ◽  
Control Group ◽  
History Taking ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Experimental Group

AbstractIntroductionMedical history is an important contributor to diagnosis and patient management. In mass-casualty incidents (MCIs), health care providers are often overwhelmed by large numbers of casualties. An efficient, reliable, and affordable method of information collection is essential for effective health care response.Hypothesis/ProblemIn some MCIs, self-reporting of symptoms can decrease the time required for history taking, without sacrificing the completeness of triage information.MethodsTwo resident doctors and a number of seventh graders who had previous experience of abdominal discomfort were invited to join this study. A questionnaire was developed to collect information on common symptoms in food poisoning. Each question was scored, and enrolled students were randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group students answered the questionnaire first and then were interviewed to complete the medical history. The control group students were interviewed in the traditional way to collect medical history. Time of all interviews was measured and recorded. The time needed to complete the history taking and completeness of obtained information were compared with students’ t tests, or Mann-Whitney U tests, based on the normality of data. Comprehensibility of each question, scored by enrolled students, was reported by descriptive statistics.ResultsThere were 41 students enrolled: 22 in the experimental group and 19 in the control group. Time to complete history taking in the experimental group (163.0 seconds, SD=52.3) was shorter than that in the control group (198.7 seconds, SD=40.9) (P=.010). There was no difference in the completeness of history obtained between the experimental group and the control group (94.8%, SD=5.0 vs 94.2%, SD=6.1; P=.747). Between the two doctors, no significant difference was found in the time required for history taking (185.2 seconds, SD=42.2 vs 173.1 seconds, SD=58.6; P=.449), or the completeness of information (94.1%, SD=5.9 vs 95.0%, SD=5.0; P=.601). Most of the questions were scored “good” in comprehensibility.ConclusionSelf-reporting of symptoms can shorten the time of history taking during a food poisoning mass-casualty event without sacrificing the completeness of information.HsuY, HuangYC. Does self-reporting facilitate history taking in food poisoning mass-casualty incidents?Prehosp Disaster Med. 2014;29(4):1-4.

scholarly journals Smallpox Vaccination: A National Survey of Emergency Health Care Providers

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 606-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Worth W. Everett ◽  
Susan E. Coffin ◽  
Theoklis Zaoutis ◽  
Scott D. Halpern ◽  
Brian L. Strom
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Smallpox Vaccination ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emergency Health Care

Preevent vaccination against smallpox: a survey of pediatric emergency health care providers

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
WORTH W. EVERETT ◽  
THEOKLIS L. ZAOUTIS ◽  
SCOTT D. HALPERN ◽  
BRIAN L. STROM ◽  
SUSAN E. COFFIN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Pediatric Emergency ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emergency Health Care

Current Controversies in Prehospital Resuscitation of the Terminally Ill Patient

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jack Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Provider ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Advanced Life Support ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emergency Health Care ◽  
Prehospital Emergency

Prehospital health-care providers regularly are called upon to assist terminally ill patients in residential or institutional, non-hospital settings such as nursing homes or hospices. Among the most crucial issues regarding such patients is whether they should be resuscitated. With alarming frequency, EMS providers are encountering vigorous and sometimes violent refusals of examination, treatment, and/or transportation from the terminally ill patient, members of the patient's family, or third persons ostensibly acting on the patient's behalf. Today, the prehospital emergency health-care provider repeatedly is faced with the legal and ethical questions that surround the issue of resuscitation and advanced life support.

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