Emergency medical services

that provides preparedness training to emergency responders. In fact, they are the primary trainer of emergency response personnel. Below explains more about the CDP and why they are so important. Overview of the CDP The idea for the CDP originally started within the US. Army Chemical School during the 1950’s. As time went by, both state and federal officials agreed that there should be a federally operated site that provided training to civilian emergency response personal. In the late 1990’s,…

during these events, similar agreements were also made with vendors of companies that sell medical supplies and food in the case supplies were unable to be evacuated from the building. Facilities were also to form transportation agreements with outside agencies like schools, churches and bussing agencies to help transport residents during an…

Who wants to expose their loved ones to the overwhelming, chaotic emergency room? Watching significant people in your life critically hurt, or even indisposed can be a very stressful situation to deal with, especially if you are waiting for hours in an emergency room to even see a physician, or even get an update. This is why Urgent Care Centers are beginning to partner up with local hospitals in order to fulfill the important needs of patients with non-life-threatening injuries, rather than…

When an illness or injury appear out of nowhere, you would usually go to an emergency room, but no one is being helped fast enough at an emergency room, so instead, people have turned to one of the fastest-growing segments of American health care: urgent care, a walk-in clinic. Although urgent care is not exactly like an emergency room, it is a clinic that handles many medical problems that are not too severe but need to be treated right away, especially if your primary care physician is not…

risk starts to emerge. Furthermore, because of these groups being scattered throughout the Baltimore City region, it is essential for the organization to acknowledge the risk and vulnerability to each community they serve. Because of the types of service delivery, evolving community demographic, the mixture of commercial and residential buildings Morrell Park Community would benefit from a Community Risk Reduction Plan that is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the…

use this process to determine the proper steps that need to be completed next. Whether it be a fireman responding to a medical call or the police responding to a shooting. Critical thinking is used in these fields by employees to secure crime scenes and provide care to those in need.…

What are the problems with the Smith Hill Emergency Management organization? With the failure to have an emergency management organization chart and the people properly identified to function in any capacity of an emergency from it most basic form to a catastrophic event is the biggest problem for the resident of Smith Hill. According to Perry, Prater & Lindell the town has a “very small tax base and a very small budget (2006, 83). This cannot be neglected even if it is true; it must be…

Dr. Dan Hafling, an emergency department physician, researcher, and director of emergency management at Inova Health System states quite simply “until events of Sandy’s magnitude come along, emergency preparedness is just a box that has to be checked” (Begley, 2012). Following the disaster caused by Hurricane Irene, New Jersey hospitals should have been well prepared for any adversity brought by Hurricane Sandy. Though there was an effective and quick reaction towards recovery once the storm had…

According to the World Health Organization Emergency Response Framework, from 2001- 2010 an average of more than 700 natural and technological emergencies occur globally every year, affecting approximately 270 million people and causing over 130,000 deaths annually (p.9). The availability of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the world varies due to each country’s government, size, population, culture, gross to domestic product, terrain, and adopted EMS delivery models. Consequently,…

The 2012 Emergency Response Guidebook was created by the transportation departments of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Argentina. It was written for firefighters, police and any other emergency service personnel that may arrive on the scene of an accident involving the transportation of dangerous goods. This guide is intended to help responders identify the specific material hazards and inform them of how to keep not only themselves but the public as well safe. This book is helpful during…