Medical emergencies

Communication and Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Preparing for a disaster requires strategic planning; however, in recent years there have been several challenges, causing unnecessary deaths and illnesses. A critical component of emergency preparedness is communication at multiple levels. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presented grand rounds on preparedness challenges for children in public health emergencies with discussions on strengths, challenges, and opportunities…

The emergency room is where all of the injuries come to in order to be revamped. Many people work together in the emergency department, such as nurses, paramedics, and support personnel to care for people who have emergencies; although, the person with the most responsibility is the emergency department physician. The emergency room (ER) doctor or physician’s job has many parts to it, yet the first part is one of the most critical: stabilize, assess, and determine whether to admit or transport…

reasonably prudent nurse under the same or similar circumstances. Departure from the professional standards of nursing care for the first admission to the emergency department included the following deviations: · Failure to assess Cindy Black comprehensively upon discharge · Failure to assess the patient systematically for the duration of the emergency department…

In our daily life, emergency situations occur frequently. Places and settings including emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), multi-casualty incidents (for instance car crashes) and mass casualty incidents (including fire outbreak and natural disasters) can all fall under the umbrella of emergency situations [Hoppes 2011]. These circumstances often involve immediate risks to health, life, property, or environment. In most cases, emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a…

worker is required in the emergency room at all times. Even though, Z. Byrd and R. Sai have been advocating for this, for many years; but it has been to no avail. The emergency room is self-sustaining when it comes to social service needs. On a rare occasion, emergency room staff may call a social worker on one of the other floors, if they are having major issues. According to R. Sai and Z. Byrd, there is a consensus that a permanent social worker is needed in the emergency room at all times,…

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…

worked hard throughout my undergraduate years to make this dream of mine a reality. I have experience working and volunteering in various medical settings and these experiences have helped me gain understanding of how the medical field works as well as shape my goals and aspirations for the future. One of my most memorable experiences was volunteering as a medical intern at Dr. Liu’s primary care office. The experience gave me the opportunity to work in a clinic and observe what the day-to-day…

for creating and providing all the equipment and supplies that are available. Not only medical personnel should be familiar with the plan for disaster, but other hospital staff and even volunteers and psychologists should be part of it as well so that they are available to support family members and victims. The hospital disaster plan has to cover activation plan, command center - which can be in the emergency room - traffic flow, decontamination, processing zones, special areas such as waiting…

plan is known as the Emergency Action Plan and is a critically important document for athletic trainer to have. It states how emergency situations, that need immediate medical aid will be handled. Athletic trainers should be able to act quickly and effectively in case of an emergency. This means performing the necessary actions on the injured individual as well as delegating tasks such as contacting emergency medical services (EMS) to someone nearby. The emergency action plan should…