Prehospital care providers’ understanding of responsibilities during a behavioural emergency
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Anticipated behaviors of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an influenza pandemic.
INTRODUCTION Emergency prehospital medical care providers are frontline health workers during emergencies. However, little is known about their attitudes, perceptions, and likely behaviors during emergency conditions. Understanding these attitudes and behaviors is crucial to mitigating the psychological and operational effects of biohazard events such as pandemic influenza, and will support the...
متن کاملEditorial comments--anticipated behaviors of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an influenza pandemic.
Tippett and co-authors are to be congratulated for an insightful and well written paper that addresses an important issue in prehospital care. Governments and emergency operations personnel often plan for future pandemics with a focus on distribution of " stuff " such as gloves, masks, beds, and ventilators. Inadequate attention is directed to healthcare provider staffing, including staffing of...
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Objective: To examine the accuracy of theoretical triage decision making among emergency prehospital health care professionals, using a multiple casualty paper exercise. Methods: A standardised 20 casualty paper exercise requiring each casualty to be prioritised for treatment was given to 100 doctors, 59 nurses, and 74 ambulance paramedics who could potentially be involved at the scene of a mul...
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Disease or illness can strike at any time. If the condition is acute, or if the injury is life-threatening or limbthreatening, immediate care is needed. These timedependent conditions that affect both adults and children may be due to medical, surgical, or obstetric conditions. They may result from acute injuries or illnesses or from exacerbations of chronic disease. In lowand middle-income cou...
متن کاملTriage decisions of prehospital emergency health care providers, using a multiple casualty scenario paper exercise.
OBJECTIVE To examine the accuracy of theoretical triage decision making among emergency prehospital health care professionals, using a multiple casualty paper exercise. METHODS A standardised 20 casualty paper exercise requiring each casualty to be prioritised for treatment was given to 100 doctors, 59 nurses, and 74 ambulance paramedics who could potentially be involved at the scene of a mul...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2078-6786,1608-9685
DOI: 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v27i0.1545