This paper explores how quality assessment is maintained in the COVID-19 protocols mandatory remote teaching and learning higher education environments. The argument being pursued that, despite pandemic, e-assessment ensures sustainability of thereof even We compare e-assessments these environments to conventional assessments happen in-person contexts. In this comparison, we unearth several cha...

Identified during SEIPS component OSS ISS Introduction of new employees Better introduction of new employees, including guided tour of trauma centre, acute admission centre, and blood bank X X Person Identification of staff Name badges visible on uniforms at all times and improved name badges for easier identification of the various healthcare professions X X Person Inclusion of people’s names ...

Estuaries are well known for their potential in removing metal from fresh water to provide micro-nutrients to aquatic life. In the present investigation, we have tried to bring out the metal removal potential of estuaries during accidental spills. For this purpose artificial river water containing high concentration of Mn, Cu, Zn, Ni and Pb were mixed with sea water at different salinity regime...

Medical emergencies that occur in co~~~merc i a l jet aircraft create unique and challenging situations. Providing medical c x e with limited resources, space, support personnel, and equipment creates a suboptimal environment for those physicians who voks~nteer to provide care. Furthermore, some pl~ysicians may "a reluctant to voltenleer to assist in such emergencies gsven the current litigious...

While Percutaneous Tracheotomy (PT) has become a standard procedure to ensure airway patency in elective indications, it is not yet accepted as standard for the management of emergency airway situations, despite more and more reports highlighting its use in this setting. After comparing PT with other emergency airway access techniques, we report a new approach performed under general anesthesia...

BACKGROUND Not much is known about emergency care delivered in patients' homes or other out-of-hospital settings. This study aims to describe out-of-hospital emergency staff's experiences of encountering and counseling patients and their family members. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was applied. Data were collected from a hospital district in Finland from emergency care staff v...

In this paper we describe a powerful use case application in the area of emergency situations management in which to illustrate the benefits of a system based on Semantic Web Services (SWS), through the automation of the business processes involved. After creating Web services to provide spatial data to third parties through the Internet, semantics and domain ontologies were added to represent ...

The transition to next generation networks is often coupled with the vision of innovative services providing personalized and customisable services over an all-IP infrastructure. To enable a smooth transition, next generation all-IP networks need not only support more services but also support emergency services. The idea here is to provide a general emergency management framework addressing ex...

This has resulted in the formation of organisations such as the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (www. ukcrc.org). However, in the two years since implementation of the regulations, recruitment into clinical trials in unconscious patients in emergency situations has been slow in the UK. The evidence base for trauma care was already seriously lacking, and the regulations did not help. Unconsci...