Emergency Alert System

and illnesses. University Hospital’s trauma team cares for more than 25,000 emergency room patients each year. In addition, University Hospital boasts 247 patient beds and has a seven-story critical care tower equipped with the latest medical technology. University Hospital also offers hundreds of different surgical procedures in their state of the art operating rooms. The mission of University of Missouri Health Care System is to advance the care of patients and promotes the research and…

EMLA and Intravenous Access This study was completed by Schreiber et al (2013) to see if the alleged vasoconstrictive effects of EMLA cream make it more difficult for healthcare workers to initiate intravenous access in children. The article begins by discussing pain from venipuncture and venous cannulation and how local anaesthetic cream such as EMLA can be used to reduce the pain; however, 16 out of 58 clinicians interviewed believed that using EMLA cream on young children made achieving…

step in Emergency Management. When your community is prepared, you are ready to handle a disaster. The degrees in preparedness comes from training scenarios, and drills to ensure that they community is ready in the event of a disaster. What does is actually mean to be prepared? If disaster strikes your community are you ready with emergency personal? Do you have city utilities on stand-by to respond to situations that might arise due to the disaster? Preparedness is not just for emergency…

Emergency Managers are faced with the responsibility of managing many different situations. These situations can range from hazards, to emergencies, to even disasters. Therefore, it is imperative to understand the difference of each situation. A hazard is defined as “a source of danger or an extreme event that has a potential to affect people, property, and natural environment in a given situation.” (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2007) In short, hazards are the risks that are likely to occur in a…

Expedia First Responder Expedia First Responder is a tool that helps people go places when they need it most. It helps people find lodging places when a natural disaster happens by providing a streamlined and relevant booking experience during a major emergency. why do we need it? Natural disasters are unstoppable and beyond our control. 160 million people are impacted every year. Although it cannot be prevented, we can do our best to help people finding safe places to stay when it happened. …

Does your health care institution have a Bioterrorism Readiness Plan? The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics does have a plan of action for any threats, including bioterrorism. If so, please share some information about the plan? If not, discuss what would be specific details that would be included in a plan of action for your health care institution? External resources, such as law enforcement, public health, FBI, and CDC would all be contacted. Within the hospital,…

Understanding three major labels of emergency management”, authors Dr. Heriberto Urby and Dr. David A. McEntire attempt to distinguish three different labels often given to the subject of emergency management. Within its structure, the article incorporates a vast amount of background information and explanations. Before going into detail with each label, the authors first provide credible definitions to the topic being discussed. They begin by defining and explaining emergency management as a…

prepare for floods. The community will have health and safety classes to prepare themselves for emergency like this. In the classes they will be taught how to make a flood emergency kits, what and what not to do during a flood, how to turn off electricity and gas and so on. Of course as usual an l flood warning is given out to the people through cell phone message alerts. The time frame of a flood alert is 30 to 60 minutes. Business Contingency…

In addition to systems and (related to computers and science) aids, a good disaster recovery plan will tap key workers throughout the organization and use their intelligence, both in the planning and the execution of the plan. Getting the company's leadership to understand…

(NORTHCOM) consistently exercises and tests for emergency preparedness to perform its homeland defense and civil support missions. The goal is to train as you fight to prepare for future wicked problems. NORTHCOM has an active exercise program, but the involvement of interagency partners and states require improvement according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Its exercise program is consistent with the requirements of DoD's Joint Training System, but problems exist with…