scholarly journals SOCIAL CRISIS, PROTESTS AND EFFECTS ON PUBLIC EMERGENCY SERVICES: ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE CHILEAN SOCIAL OUTBREAK

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIA SCAPINI ◽  
CINTHYA VERGARA ◽  
JASMINA CONTRERAS
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Public Emergency

scholarly journals [Availability and use of emergency services in Tunisia:main results of a comprihensive national survey]

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 805-811
Author(s):  
M. K. Chahed ◽  
N. Somrani ◽  
H. Achour
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Service ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Emergency Rooms ◽  
Hospital Emergency ◽  
Public Emergency ◽  
Use Of Emergency Services ◽  
The University

In order to assess hospital emergency rooms, a comprehensive national epidemiological investigation was conducted in all 155 public emergency structures in Tunisia. Here we present the main results of the levels of availability and use of emergency services. Coverage of the population by services is adequate [one emergency service per 60, 000 people]. Emergency wards admit about 2, 500, 000 patients every year [a quarter of the population of the country]. The university hospital emergency services are the most heavily used [150 patients per day on average]. Emergency services are sought for medical [60%], surgical [18%], paediatric [14%] and gynaecological reasons [5%]. It would be useful to assess the quality of care delivered and the satisfaction of citizens and health workers.

scholarly journals Nursing in an Emergency Unit: interfaces and Interdependences of the Work Body

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 960-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rejane Moschen ◽  
Maria da Graça Corso da Motta
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nursing Assistants ◽  
Emergency Unit ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Public Emergency ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Efficient Care

The aim of this study was to understand how the nursing team perceives its interdependence within the work body of the emergency unit. The study used a qualitative descriptive approach with the participation of three registered nurses, six nursing technicians and two nursing assistants from the largest public emergency unit in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Creative and Sensitive Method was used for data collection, with reflection workshops and content analysis, providing three categories: Perceptions of the body; relationship of the body systems; and the nursing body in the emergency unit. The results revealed the interdependence of the members in the work and a certain impotence and frustration emerged due to the overload of the nursing body and to the (un)caring within the context of intense human productivity of the emergency services. Moments of reflection about the biological body allowed the team to visualize and feel themselves essential in the group, revealing an efficient care strategy to the nursing caregiver.

scholarly journals Antidote availability in the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciane Cristina Rodrigues Fernandes ◽  
Taís Freire Galvão ◽  
Adriana Safioti Toledo Ricardi ◽  
Eduardo Mello De Capitani ◽  
Stephen Hyslop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Access Time ◽  
Poison Control ◽  
Emergency Rooms ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Emergency Ambulance ◽  
Public Emergency

ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: The lack of availability of antidotes in emergency services is a worldwide concern. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the availability of antidotes used for treating poisoning in Campinas (SP). DESIGN AND SETTING: This was a cross-sectional study of emergency services in Campinas, conducted in 2010-2012. METHODS: The availability, amount in stock, place of storage and access time for 26 antidotal treatments was investigated. In the hospitals, the availability of at least one complete treatment for a 70 kg adult over the first 24 hours of admission was evaluated based on stock and access recommendations contained in two international guidelines. RESULTS: 14 out of 17 functioning emergency services participated in the study, comprising pre-hospital services such as the public emergency ambulance service (SAMU; n = 1) and public emergency rooms for admissions lasting ≤ 24 hours (UPAs; n = 3), and 10 hospitals with emergency services. Six antidotes (atropine, sodium bicarbonate, diazepam, Phytomenadione, flumazenil and calcium gluconate) were stocked in all the services, followed by 13 units that also stocked activated charcoal, naloxone and diphenhydramine or biperiden. No service stocked all of the recommended antidotes; only the regional Poison Control Center had stocks close to recommended (22/26 antidotal treatments). The 10 hospitals had almost half of the antidotes for starting treatments, but only one quarter of the antidotes was present with stocks sufficient for providing treatment for 24 hours. CONCLUSION: The stock of antidotes for attending poisoning emergencies in the municipality of Campinas is incomplete and needs to be improved.

scholarly journals UIOT-FMT: A Universal Format for Collection and Aggregation of Data from Smart Devices

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Seljeseth ◽  
Muhammad Mudassar Yamin Yamin ◽  
Basel Katt
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Public Emergency

Information Technology (IT) has become an essential part of our lives and due to the emergence of Internet-of-Things (IoT), technology has encompassed a majority of things that humans rely on in their daily lives. Further, as IT becomes more relevant in daily lives, the need for IT to serve public emergency services has become more important. However, due to the infancy status of IoT, there is a need for a data consortium that would prove to be best used in servicing policing in a technological driven society. This paper will discuss the plausibility of creating a universal format for use in carrying out public services, such as emergency response by the police and regular law maintenance. In this research we will discuss what the police requires in their line-of-duty and how smart devices can be used to satisfy those needs. A data formatting framework is developed and demonstrated, with the goal of showing what can be done to unifying data from smart city sensors.

Hierarchical siting of macro fire station and micro fire station

2020 ◽  
pp. 239980832095842
Author(s):  
Wenhao Yu ◽  
Yujie Chen ◽  
Menglin Guan
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Service System ◽  
Cost Minimization ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
Public Emergency ◽  
Fire Stations

With the rapid increase of city building density, public emergency service system for providing fire services faces increasing challenge in reducing the loss of lives and property, especially for the reduction of massive casualties in fire accidents. For obtaining a higher benefit from public service facilities, GIS-based techniques such as location optimization are commonly used. However, as a special facility, fire emergency facilities are quite particular in siting and providing services, and they have their unique demands including specific response time, benefit maximization, workload balancing and cost minimization; traditional optimization methods for fire facility siting are difficult to account for all of these objectives. Furthermore, the public emergency services agencies in China are implementing a plan to establish a hierarchical fire service system by siting fire stations with different capacities, and under this context, the general covering models with the same level of facilities are limited in their effectiveness. Therefore, this paper proposes a hierarchical covering model which takes into account the different characteristics of different levels of fire facilities (i.e. macro fire station and micro fire station). The case study of Nanjing city proves that our model is effective in practical applications of emergency services optimization.

scholarly journals UIOT-FMT: A Universal Format for Collection and Aggregation of Data from Smart Devices

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6662
Author(s):  
Mats Seljeseth ◽  
Muhammad Mudassar Yamin ◽  
Basel Katt
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Public Emergency ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Information Technology (IT) has become an essential part of our lives and due to the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), technology has encompassed a majority of things that humans rely on in their daily lives. Furthermore, as IT becomes more relevant in daily lives, the need for IT to serve public emergency services has become more important. However, due to the infancy status of IoT, there is a need for a data consortium that would prove to be best used in servicing policing in a technological driven society. This paper will discuss the plausibility of creating a universal format for use in carrying out public services, such as emergency response by the police and regular law maintenance. In this research we will discuss what the police requires in their line-of-duty and how smart devices can be used to satisfy those needs. A data formatting framework is developed and demonstrated, with the goal of showing what can be done to unifying data from smart city sensors.

Business and Social Crisis in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Handley
Keyword(s):  
Social Crisis

Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Service

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 375-382
Author(s):  
Remco F. P. de Winter ◽  
Mirjam C. Hazewinkel ◽  
Roland van de Sande ◽  
Derek P. de Beurs ◽  
Marieke H. de Groot
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency Services ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency Service ◽  
Suicidal Patients

Abstract. Background: Outreach psychiatric emergency services play an important role in all stages of a suicidal crisis; however, empirical assessment data are scarce. This study describes characteristics of patients assessed by these services and involved in suicidal crises. Method: During a 5-year period, detailed information from psychiatric emergency service assessments was recorded; 14,705 assessments were included. Characteristics of patients with/without suicidal behavior and with/without suicide attempts were compared. Outcomes were adjusted for clustering of features within individual patients. Results: Suicidal behavior was assessed in 32.2% of patients, of whom 9.2% attempted suicide. Suicidal behavior was most commonly associated with depression or adjustment disorder and these patients were referred to the service by a general practitioner or a general hospital, whereas those who attempted suicide were less likely to be referred by a general practitioner. Those who attempted suicide were more likely to be female and have had a referral by a general hospital. Self-poisoning by medication was the most common method of attempting suicide. Limitations: Bias could be due to missed or incomplete assessments. Primary diagnoses were based on clinical observation at the time of the assessment or on the primary diagnosis previously recorded. In addition, suicidal behavior or attempted suicide might have been underestimated. Conclusions: Suicidal behavior is commonplace in assessments by psychiatric emergency services. Suicidal patients with/without a suicide attempt differed with respect to demographic features, primary diagnoses, and referring entities, but not with respect to treatment policy. About 40% of the suicidal patients with/without an attempt were admitted following assessment.

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