The City as Field Hospital and the Influenza Epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918– 19

Since it was detected in November 2019, the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has been expanding across different continents, having been characterized as the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020.This is a study descriptive and retrospective of patients diagnosed with COVID-19, hospitalized in a field hospital in the city of Recife in the period from April 2020 to September 2020. The Campaign Hospitals dedicated to the care of clinical patients, victims of infectious diseases, have the following basic characteristics: rapid construction, a large-scale temporary structure. From April 2020 to September 2020, 1,592 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome were confirmed in the hospital evaluated. There were 1,502 notifications and among these 90 were not notified because they had already been notified in emergency services with positive results. Regarding the reported cases, 54% of the individuals were male and the most affected were the age group between sixty and sixty-nine years old 363(22.8%).SARS is a notifiable disease; therefore, all suspected cases must be reported and investigated by the health services using the standard Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN).This study may provide subsidies to understand the aspects involved in the occurrence of the disease, so that the prevention and coping with COVID-19 are consistent with the assistance provided by health surveillance.

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(P1-18) Experience of IMSS Medical Equipment in Rescue Efforts in Haiti

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x11003505 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S1) ◽

pp. s104-s105 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. LorÍa-castellanos ◽

F. Cruz-vega ◽

E. Gomez-zarate

Keyword(s):

Humanitarian Aid ◽

The United States ◽

List Type ◽

Traumatic Amputation ◽

Field Hospital ◽

Intensive Care Nurses ◽

Initial Care ◽

The University ◽

The City ◽

Social Security Institute

Has been a tradition of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) have a great spirit of solidarity with any type of disaster. That is why the early hours of the earthquake in Haiti was appointed to a group of specialists trained in emergency care who participated in the first acts of rescue and stabilization of multiple victims. The first group of six specialists arrived Port au Prince on January 15 fieldwork being allocated in coordination with the rest of the Mexican aid mission in the sector 8 of the city, preferably at the University of Saint Gerard. Among the actions taken by this group were: •Application of 300 doses of immunization.•Tracking and signaling a radius of 3 km in search of survivors and bodies.•Working in conjunction with the group of Topos, the Federal Police and the Navy in the initial care, resuscitation and transfer of 9 people rescued from the rubble.•More than 60 dressings and sutures.•Monitoring and maintenance of health of mission personnel.The second group, consisting of specialists in trauma, reconstructive surgery, anesthesiology, surgical and intensive care nurses, was part of a Field Hospital was established in conjunction with the United States at the place called “Killi Point”, involving a network trauma care in which our doctors surgically intervened the hospital ship “Comfort”. Were to a large number of cases of traumatic amputation, children and adults burned, fractures, crushing limbs and carrying large infections for obvious reasons IMSS staff recognizes the professionalism and capacity of the entire Mexican mission of humanitarian aid to Haiti and the opportunity offered to us to help a sister nation, we reiterate that we are engaged, if required again to respond with the same promptly and sense of humanity shown so far.

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Beteg és sebesült vallon és francia zsoldosok ellátása Pozsonyban 1597. szeptember 11-e és november 29-e között

Kaleidoscope History ◽

10.17107/kh.2021.22.43-52 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (22) ◽

pp. 43-52

Author(s):

Zoltán Péter Bagi

Keyword(s):

Field Hospital ◽

Set Up ◽

Military Campaign ◽

The Military ◽

The City

On the suggestion of Pedro de Illanes, a field hospital was set up during the military campaign 1597 in Pressburg to care for wounded and sick mercenaries. In a recently turned up list, we found the titles of all cost items the city arranged for supplying the accommodated43 Walloon and French infantry and cavalry.

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‘When the city is a great field hospital’: the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response

Journal of Clinical Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02893.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (19) ◽

pp. 2732-2738 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arlene W Keeling

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Influenza Pandemic ◽

Field Hospital ◽

The City

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Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500012961 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 202-203

Author(s):

Robert Chatham

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Public Health System ◽

Municipal Hospital ◽

The Public ◽

Public Benefit ◽

For Profit ◽

Benefit Corporation ◽

The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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ASHA Convention 2013

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.an11.18072013.46 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 46-48

Keyword(s):

Ice Cream ◽

Annual Convention ◽

The City ◽

Rich History

This year's Annual Convention features some sweet new twists like ice cream and free wi-fi. But it also draws on a rich history as it returns to Chicago, the city where the association's seeds were planted way back in 1930. Read on through our special convention section for a full flavor of can't-miss events, helpful tips, and speakers who remind why you do what you do.

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