Every human being is at risk of serious injury or serious sickness, our society has found emergency medical systems, which is a way to help people who experience these risks. The way society has found it easier to help people is with the emergency medical systems (Walz16).The important keys to the EMS are that the patients are treated correctly by the right people, place, and time (16).There are also three important concepts that have to come to mind when treating patients. The first thing is to make sure emergency medical systems have the right knowledge and technology to know how to treat patients (16). Second thing is to make sure emergency medical systems have the right communication and transportation in order to treat patients in a timely manner (16). The last important concept society’s support, so that we can afford the financial weight (16). Unfortunately, emergency services for trauma or sickness was not started until the 1970s (Boyd126). During the 1600-1850s which was the Preindustrial Era there were many deaths due to illnesses and injuries (Walz17). Many people died from infectious diseases, such as malaria and respiratory illnesses (17). Some of the respiratory illnesses were influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. Back in the Preindustrial Era the people were not well educated with public health (17). In addition, the small towns didn’t have proper water supply or sewage treatment. Not only were there infectious diseases, but also periodic epidemics affected communities (17). Some of the epidemics were yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera. During the Preindustrial Era society did not have proper treatment for these illnesses (17). People looked up to a family member to give them treatment and care for their illness...
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...eatment to patients who are seriously injured or sick. They are trained to be the best at getting information and start treatment to make it easier for other medical personnel (Schottke10). The training allows them to evaluate, stabilize and treat patients with a minimum of specialized equipment (10). The only way the emergency medical services started using first aid and ambulances was because of the Civil War (Schottke8). Ambulances were first used in the Civil War to remove wounded patients from the battlefield (8). Thankfully, this allowed us to start treating people with more advance ways. Advance life support became common in the 1980s (8).Today paramedics have the ability to perform procedures that were limited to doctors in the early days of emergency medical services (8). The emergency medical system has expanded the past years and it will continue to grow.
The Importance of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Robert A. Gaylor Waldorf University The Importance of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care In today’s society, the population of the United States is greater than ever before and continues to increase daily. According to Worldometers, the population of the United States in 2010 was 309,876,170 and as of July 11, 2016 has increased to 324,118,787 (U.S. Population (LIVE). (n.d.). That’s a 4.6% increase in approximately five and one half years. If this rate of increase
necessitate both medical care assistance and Federal public health assistance. Health care facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers and other medical departments including laboratory and pharmacy are rather severely damaged or overwhelmed by the volume of affected victims during an internal or external disaster. Sometimes, facilities are also affected by other resources and lack utilities like power, water or sewer. In case of massive disasters, the demand for the medical supplies
Importance of National Incident Management System The formation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) was mandated by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Nicholas, Howitt & Giles, 2017). Its creation came as a consequence of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The NIMS is a standard method and strategy set to be used in the management of any emergency response operation across all the government levels regardless of the kind of incident, its complexity or magnitude. The Incident
The future goal of EMS is to become a community oriented health care system that is integrated with other health care services in order to become part of the overall health care system. In order to achieve this long term goal, the EMS Agenda for the Future has introduced 14 attributes that will promote advancements and future development of EMS as a healthcare system. The agenda hopes that EMS will be able to provide healthcare alongside nurses and physicians and work with other public health and
patient-oriented care. The optimization of the patient flow can only be achieved when the medical practitioners working in the different departments will follow the team-based strategy of providing care: it enables various possibilities for large and small healthcare facilities to manage their patient flow, and it satisfies the needs of patients (such as receiving qualitative care timely), and of the medical
catastrophic disaster such as hurricane, tornadoes, hazmat spills and flooding. Emergency management situations varies. Managers have to put into consideration the type of disasters or the response of citizens. A great example, the hurricane in Tuscaloosa, AL required large amounts of medical and debris assistance from teams to help return the destructed site back to prior condition. National Disaster Medical Systems would be one of the first to respond if there is a tragic event like in Tuscaloosa
considered the importance of the concept High-Reliability Organization. To be more exact, it can be said that
defined as a person who are concern and denoting an event that involves widespread human suffering, especially requires the large-scale provision of aid. As a humanitarian organisation will need to cope with different types of natural disaster or emergency such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, epidemics, droughts, famines, terrorist attacks, and war situations to a combination of several disasters which may occur simultaneously. However, humanitarian organisation will associate with non-government
among 11 countries in the emergency department and to see a family doctor or a specialist (1). There are a number of complex factors influencing this, both systemic and institutional in nature, and its consequences can be devastating to health outcomes of Canadians. Fortunately, there are number of things that can be done to mitigate the growing problem of wait times at the physician and healthcare system levels. A number of problems contributing to long wait times in emergency rooms have been identified
The importance of security to the operation of jail and its main components prison is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment, as prisons become more crowded and internal problems arise, it is important to keep control and stability inside and outside of the prison. Security for prisoners require hospitalization at outside medical facilities, officers are highly trained and focuses directly on
Introduction: I went to the emergency department with my brother who had hurt his hand during a soccer game at this school. I was tensed, blood was oozing vigorously, and he was crying with pain. In such a condition when I stepped into the emergency department, I was shocked to find out that there was a long waiting queue outside the door. Patients were waiting in a queue to be attended by the emergency assistance. At first I thought, I might have mistakes the OPD department for Emergency due to tension. To
Portfolio Project In today’s fast paced era, health care is a continuous process, in which medical demands as well as needs are progressively getting challenging therefore accessibility to a good health care system is necessary in order to provide major improvements in the quality of care. Additionally, health of an individual is the most vital aspect of human life that enables people to perform all their tasks in life. Without good health, people struggle to maximize each moment in their life.
improves the outcomes of medical care provided to the patient, but also provides benefits to health care providers. In terms of the importance of providing an effective and convenient means of interprofessional collaboration and communication, Chi Mei Medical Center developed a patient-centered computerized platform to fulfill this purpose. The platform features an integrated core area and a spiral-shaped communication area, allowing the medical team to look at the medical care that the patient receives
quality as well as emergency needs for the facility. If I were the manager of an organization with outpatient surgical unit I would implement three things to improve the experience of patients. Firstly, the organization should be established nearer to a hospital-based health care provision which can be approached in case of any emergency that happen while performing surgeries. Secondly, introducing a centrally computerized Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to prevent and reduce the medical errors. Thirdly
mental health hospitals comes from the use of emergency medicine as a specialty that has a federal law that allows any patient to receive treatment there (Barish, McGaudly, & Arnold, 2012, p. 304). Because of the lack of primary care physicians for a proper referral to seek mental health treatment, patients seek medical care in ERs (Barish, McGaudly, & Arnold, 2012, p. 304). Within mental health, patients with severe psychiatric disorder visit the emergency room one or multiple times throughout their