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    There are a lot of definitions for an emergency. For this passage, the definition reflects enter focuses found in the different discourses of what constitutes an emergency. An emergency is characterized here as a critical risk to operations or notorieties that can have negative results if not took care of legitimately. In emergency administration, the risk is the potential harm an emergency can cause on an association, its partners, and an industry. An emergency can make three related dangers:…

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    Canada's Natural Disasters

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    that the government is not doing enough towards emergency preparedness, how when the governement did take the leadership to help out the results turned out useful, other countries such as Tokyo and United States are using evolving technology which is proving to be greatly efficient and the way government leadership is needed to create a powerful and practical policy. I want to emphasize the fact that the government is not doing enough towards emergency preparedness. Every seminar stated that the…

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    Prevention (2015) estimate that 735,000 Americans suffer heart attacks each year. Although chest pain does not always signify a person is having a heart attack, the most reliable way to rule out this frightening possibility is a visit to the nearest emergency room for appropriate testing. Contrary to popular belief, the overwhelming majority of myocardial infarctions are diagnosed by carrying out cardiac troponin blood tests to detect myocardial (heart) cell death, not from a 12-lead…

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    unpredictability and tendency to overwhelm those impacted. Disaster plans are an integral key to preparing and guide an organization through the phases of an emergency. University Medical Center New Orleans stands in the exact same area that sustained catastrophic damage from Hurricane Katrina almost twelve years ago. University Medical Center defines an emergency as any unplanned event that may cause deaths or significant injuries to patients, staff or the public; or potentially shut down…

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    The Effect of a Train Wreck January 6th 2005, Is when the Graniteville train derailment occurred. The crew on train P22 was running late by the time they made it to the plant; they didn’t have enough time to drop off the cargo of sodium hydroxide. The brakeman at the plant was supposed to move a switch so other trains could continue moving straight through town. The brakeman claimed he flipped the switch when he didn’t. The brakeman explained to the investigators “In my mind when I left [the…

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    The author indicated that the national emergency management system did not responses to the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon fire in a rush. The author indicated that the emergency management should have had a system to react to such catastrophe in federal and states offices more effective; having emergency management created “Department of Homeland Security”, the author undoubtedly though for purpose of security…

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    and even more often they do not believe that disasters will affect their communities. Often those officials see the training needed for an effective emergency management plan as an expensive and believe that the costs associated with training and planning outweigh the benefit of the end result (Petak, 1985; Condrey, 2010). However, proper emergency planning will enhance effective implementation during disaster response and recovery. This preplanned framework for the disaster response was…

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    Head Firearm Injury Introduction: Gunshot deaths are self-inflicted in most of the cases with incidence rate per 100,000 populations in 2001 was 0.14 in UK in which suicidal and homicidal deaths represent 65% and 7% respectively, and with a rate of 10.2 in US in which suicidal and homicidal deaths represent 67% and 27% respectively.1 In study of 64 firearm deaths in Dammam, the age of the cases was ranging from 16 to 45, in which suicidal injuries accounts for 11% of all fatalities. In 80% of…

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    nonprofit sector and the private sector organizations, all have a responsibility in emergency management. Public sector operations operate on the basis of meeting the needs of others such as private sectors or nonprofit sectors. All these sectors go hand-in-hand. All of the above sectors would be handicapped without the assistance of the other sectors. We must all be responsible parties to the homeland security emergency service(s). The major component parts of preparedness in homeland security…

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    Ten years after the disaster, Anand Irimpen, M.D., professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and the chief of cardiology at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System began to notice a drastic increase of patients to their cardiology department (American Heart Association). After conducting research, the hospital…

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