scholarly journals Understanding Communications in Medical Emergency Situations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyuba Mancheva ◽  
Julie Dugdale
Keyword(s):  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Emergency Situations

scholarly journals Mobile Application Design Emergency Medical Call for the Deaf using UCD Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risald Risald ◽  
Suyoto Suyoto ◽  
Albertus Joko Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Emergency Call ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
The People ◽  
Emergency Event ◽  
Audio Communication

<p>Deaf or hearing loss is a condition of inability to hear something, either totally or partially. Hearing loss greatly affects the life of a person in communicating with the people around him. Deaf people will be very difficult when in a medical emergency, this is because the medical emergency situation requires fast action.</p><p>          The Healthy Phone application is a mobile medical emergency call application that can help people with hearing impaired when in emergency situations. With the Healthy Phone application, the user only needs to select an icon that suits the situation encountered in touchscreen mobile device then the message will be sent to the nearest hospital.</p>                To search for icons corresponding to emergencies, the User Centered Design (UCD) method is used. This application is very helpful for deaf people because this application does not require audio communication and user location is also sent automatically to the nearest hospital. The results were analyzed using four emergency event scenarios with a total score of 87% and an average user time of less than 0:42 sec indicating that the study was successful in designing a mobile medical emergency call application according to user requirements.

scholarly journals Medical Emergency in Dental Clinic - An update

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL3) ◽  
pp. 831-839
Author(s):  
Aksha sharen Arul Edwin ◽  
Lakshmi T ◽  
Karthik Ganesh Mohanraj
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Emergency Procedures ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Dental Practitioners ◽  
Medical Emergencies ◽  
Spss Software

In general, one of the convincing methods to tackle an emergency is to be well-organized and prepared priory. The intention of the study is to analyze the availability of medical emergency procedures and equipment in dental clinics. Also, the aim is to determine the level of awareness, knowledge, perceptions, individual experiences and preparedness of the dental practitioners and dental students for the management of medical emergency situations in their hospitals or clinics. A cross-sectional survey based study was done from April to among 100 dental students in Chennai. The self-structured well-designed questionnaire containing the protocols and emergency procedures followed in their clinic. The questionnaire forms were circulated online through Google forms. The data from all the participants were collected and analyzed through SPSS software. In the present study, it was inferred that the majority of the population are aware about the medical emergencies in dental clinics (99%) and the remaining 1% of the population are not aware of it. The conclusion of this study is that the above statistical analysis about knowledge awareness on recent advances in the treatment of medical emergencies in dental clinics has provided an alarming situation about the capability of dentists to deal with such conditions for the betterment of patients .

Social Credential-Based Role Recommendation and Patient Privacy Control in Medical Emergency

2012 ◽  
pp. 215-237
Author(s):  
Soon Ae Chun ◽  
Joon Hee Kwon ◽  
Haesung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Health Information Technologies ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Role Based

Emerging Health Information Technologies (HIT), such as Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Personal Health Records (PHR) systems, facilitate access to and sharing of patients’ medical data in a distributed environment. The privacy protection of medical information is a pressing issue with the use of these medical technologies. In this paper, the authors present a Patient-controlled Privacy Protection Framework, which allows a patient to specify his or her own privacy policies on their own medical data no matter where they are stored. In addition, the authors extend this basic framework to medical emergency situations, where roles and users may not be limited to an organizational boundary. To enforce patient’s privacy policies even in emergency situations, the authors propose the Situation Role-based Privacy Control model and a social network-based user credential discovery method to recommend a situation role to candidate users. The authors present a mobile prototype system and two experiments to show the feasibility of our approach.

scholarly journals Is there a doctor on the plane? The distinctive conditions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on commercial flights

2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Pavlovic ◽  
Sladjana Trpkovic ◽  
Sladjana Andjelic ◽  
Nebojsa Videnovic
Keyword(s):  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Emergency Medical Care ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Emergency Medical

Even today, when over 3.5 billion passengers travel on commercial flights each year, there is confusion about the duties and role of doctors and other licensed medical professionals volunteering to provide assistance to a passenger whose life is in jeopardy, especially when it comes to measures of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the distinctive conditions of an airborne commercial aircraft. There are still no international, standardized guidelines, rulebooks, or instructions applying to all airlines when it comes to training and organizing the cabin crew, equipping emergency medical kits and covering the role of medical professionals volunteering their services in medical emergency situations. The aim of this work was to attempt to solve a common quandary among medical professionals when it comes to airplane travel. Based on the available literature, national and regional guidelines and rulebooks of airlines, in accordance with the ethical and legal principles binding medical professionals, we have attempted to answer the major questions related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation on commercial flights. All aspects are covered ? from a doctor volunteering to provide emergency medical care, through the marshalling of the cabin attendants, the availability of equipment, interaction with the flight captain and the captain?s decision whether to perform an emergency landing, to the possibility of obtaining additional information from medical call centers on the ground and calling medical crews to the nearest airport.

scholarly journals The diversity of emergency code telephone numbers in Australian hospitals: the feasibility of an Australian standard emergency code

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ged F Williams ◽  
Patricia M Livingston
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Number System ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Potential Danger ◽  
Telephone Number ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Code Blue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Australian Standard

This study explored the diversity of emergency code telephone numbers currently in use in Australian hospitals and examined the feasibility of a standard emergency code telephone number for all Australian hospitals, based on the United Kingdom experience. An email and telephone convenience survey of Australian hospitals from six states and two territories was conducted. Of the 108 hospitals surveyed, seven did not use a telephone number system and used a button/ pager system to call an emergency. Of the 101 hospitals surveyed that used a telephone number system, 40 different emergency telephone numbers were in place, and in nine hospitals the telephone number used for Code Blue (medical emergency) was different to the telephone number used for other emergency codes. With increasing mobility of staff across hospitals, uniformity of emergency code telephone numbers is required to reduce confusion, potential danger and improve staff response in emergency situations. A single Australian standard emergency telephone number for all Australian hospitals is advocated.

A semi-autonomous small scale paramotor used for medical emergency situations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razvan-Viorel Mihai ◽  
Cristian Vidan ◽  
Radu-Calin Pahonie ◽  
Pericle Matei ◽  
Adrian-Mihail Stoica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Emergency Situations

Mechatronic System for ABO Human Blood Typing

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vânia Moreira ◽  
José Machado ◽  
Vítor Carvalho ◽  
Filomena Soares ◽  
Ana Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Human Blood ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Blood Type ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Blood Typing ◽  
Image Processing Techniques ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Processing Techniques

In medical emergency situations, when a patient needs a blood transfusion, the universal blood type O− is administered. This procedure may lead to the depletion of stock reserves of O− blood. Nowadays, there is no commercial equipment capable of determining the patient's blood type in situ, in a fast and reliable process. Human blood typing is usually performed through the manual test, which involves a macroscopic observation and interpretation of the results by an analyst. This test, despite of having a fast response time, may lead to human errors, which sometimes can be fatal to the patient. This paper presents the development of an automatic mechatronic prototype for determining human blood typing (ABO and Rh systems) through image processing techniques. The prototype design takes into account the characteristics of reliability of analysis, portability, and response time allowing the system to be used in emergency situations. The developed prototype performs blood and reagents mixture acquires the resultant image and processes the data (based on image processing techniques) to determine the sample blood type. It was tested in a laboratory, using cataloged samples of blood types, provided by the Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation. Hereafter, it is expected to test and validate the prototype in clinical environments.

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