scholarly journals Morbidity among the Israeli Defense Force response team during Nepal, post-earthquake mission, 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Lachish ◽  
Aviad Bar ◽  
Heli Alalouf ◽  
Ofer Merin ◽  
Eli Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Force Response ◽  
Israeli Defense Force ◽  
Response Team

Mise en place et organisation d’une équipe médicale mobile de réponse précoce aux urgences intra-hospitalières (Rapid Response Team)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Jung ◽  
Gerald Chanques ◽  
Samir Jaber ◽  
Kada Klouche
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Response Team ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Prise En Charge ◽  
Response Team

La mise en place d’une Rapid Response Team a pour objectif la mise en place d’une structure de réponse hospitalièrepour la prise en charge des urgences vitales et surtout une réponse précoce à la dégradation clinique des patientshospitalisés avant que l’urgence vitale ne survienne. Nous discutons dans ce manuscrit le rationnel et le niveau depreuve motivant la mise en place d’une Rapid Response Team ainsi que les freins qui doivent être surmontés pour lesuccès de cette mise en place.

A Model for a Statewide Critical Incident Stress (CIS) Debriefing Program for Emergency Services Personnel

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith W. Neely ◽  
William J. Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Critical Incident Stress ◽  
Emergency Services Personnel ◽  
Response Team

AbstractPurpose:Emergency services personnel are highly vulnerable to acute and cumulative critical incident stress (CIS) that can manifest as anger, guilt, depression, and impaired decision-making, and, in certain instances, job loss. Interventions designed to identify such distress and restore psychological functioning becomes imperative.Methods:A statewide debriefing team was formed in 1988 through a collaborative effort between an academic department of emergency medicine and a social work department of a teaching hospital, and a metropolitan area fire department and ambulance service. Using an existing CIS debriefing model, 84 pre-screened, mental health professionals and emergency services personnel were provided with 16 hours of training and were grouped into regional teams.Debriefing requests are received through a central number answered by a communicator in a 24-hour communications center located within the emergency department. Debriefings are conducted 48–72 hours after the event for specific types of incidents. Follow-up telephone calls are made by the debriefing team leader two to three weeks following a debriefing. The teams rely on donations to pay for travel and meals.Results:One hundred sixty-eight debriefings were conducted during the first four years. Rural agencies accounted for 116 (69%) requests. During this period, 1,514 individuals were debriefed: 744 (49%) firefighters, 460 (30%) EMTs, and 310 (21%) police officers, dispatchers, and other responders. Deaths of children, extraordinary events, and incidents involving victims known to the responders (35%, 14%, and 14% respectively) were the most common reasons for requesting debriefings. Feedback was received from 48 (28%) of the agencies that requested the debriefing. All of those who responded felt that the debriefing had a beneficial effect on its personnel. Specific individuals identified by agency representatives as having the greatest difficulty were observed to be returned to their pre-incident state.Conclusion:CIS debriefings are judged as beneficial. A statewide response team is an effective way to provide these services at no cost to agencies.

scholarly journals Field Monitoring the Effects of Overnight Shift Work on Specialist Tactical Police Training with Heart Rate Variability Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7895
Author(s):  
Colin Tomes ◽  
Ben Schram ◽  
Robin Orr
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Heart Rate Variability Analysis ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Hrv Analysis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Personnel Allocation

Police work exposes officers to high levels of stress. Special emergency response team (SERT) service exposes personnel to additional demands. Specifically, the circadian cycles of SERT operators are subject to disruption, resulting in decreased capacity to compensate in response to changing demands. Adaptive regulation loss can be measured through heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. While HRV Trends with health and performance indicators, few studies have assessed the effect of overnight shift work on HRV in specialist police. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effects overnight shift work on HRV in specialist police. HRV was analysed in 11 SERT officers and a significant (p = 0.037) difference was found in pRR50 levels across the training day (percentage of R-R intervals varying by >50 ms) between those who were off-duty and those who were on duty the night prior. HRV may be a valuable metric for quantifying load holistically and can be incorporated into health and fitness monitoring and personnel allocation decision making.

Etiology and Timing of Postoperative Rapid Response Team Activations

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy P. Walco ◽  
Dorothee A. Mueller ◽  
Sameer Lakha ◽  
Liza M. Weavind ◽  
Jacob C. Clifton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Response Team ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Response Team
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