INTRODUCTION Medical rescue is an access and release of a person requiring or who may require medical attention, treatment from a confined position, from a position of entrapment or other situations which threatens the health of an individual or the community. A medical rescue worker is part of the team of first responds at an accident disaster where they bravely assist those in need, whilst compromising situation such as car wreckage. CHARACTERISTICS OF A RESCUE WORKER • Effective communication skills • Integrity and a reassuring manner • Ability to follow instructions • Problem solving skills • Team working skills in the fire and rescue service and the community • Patience, understanding and sensitivity • Confidence …show more content…
However in this assignment we will only focus on METRO, Fire and Mountain rescue. As these are the one I experienced first-hand and I am knowledgeable in. TRAINING OF RESCUE WORKERS Rescue workers train extensively I order to ensure that they are fit enough to help patients in need of their help. They have physical training and swimming and rigorous rescue training, such as pulling their own body weight or more of material and running 50 laps both on track and in the swimming pool. METRO (MEDICAL EMERGENCY TRANSPORT RESCUE OPERATIONS) Whenever one gets involved in an accident and gets seriously injured or needs serious medical attention, there are high chances of them being assisted by medical emergency transport and rescue operations (METRO) team. Rescue workers remove patients from wrecked vehicles using Jaws of Life. Each and every rescue vehicle has proper equipment, power tools and hiking equipment .Currently there are 33 rescue vehicle operating within the Western Cape and 6 of these can remove and lift extremely heavy equipment from accident
Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. Some of the best lessons in life are learned from making a mistake. But in the healthcare world making mistakes means losing lives. This has started to happen so frequently there has been a term coined – Failure to Rescue or FTR. Failure to rescue is a situation in which a patient was starting to deteriorate and it wasn’t noticed or it wasn’t properly addressed and the patient dies. The idea is that doctors or nurses could’ve had the opportunity to save the life of the patient but because of a variety of reasons, didn’t. This paper discusses the concept of FTR, describes ways to prevent it from happening; especially in relation to strokes or cerebrovascular accidents, and discusses the nursing implications involved in all of these factors.
In the article, “Undulation Training for Development of Hierarchical Fitness and Improved Firefighter Job Performance,” a research was conducted when a critical problem emerged from the extraordinary job risks of firefighting. In this article, it was recognized that firefighting was a high risk occupation in which many activities were life threatening. Yearly incidences brought on from these life-threatening activities and conditions included cardiovascular disease from the inhalation of smoke as well as musculoskeletal injuries from the physical demands of the job. The problem was lying in the fact most fire departments were failing to adequately prepare the firefighters in terms of health and physical fitness to take on the physiologically challenging demands of the job. Now, there are contemporary training methods to boost physical fitness and cardiovascular health in order to make the firefighters “emergency prepared.” However, despite the emphasis on physiological training, previous research had shown that the traditional physical training programs were inadequate to prepare firefighters because it featured systematic physical exercises during specific mesocycles and little variety. In this research, standard resistance training, or standard training control, was compared to and put to the test against undulation training, a method to draw out a specific systematic arrangement of different physiological factors and components in order to accommodate the need for simultaneous development of physical fitness and performance needs. The purpose was to determine the influence of both types of training on muscle adaptation as well as assess how well the trainings transferred over to situations and testing areas that really utilized...
There are events, subtle or otherwise, leading up to a critical change in health status. As nurses at the bedside, we must have strategies and protocols implemented in order to monitor changes in vital signs and trends leading towards a cardiac, respiratory, or neurologic event. In a hospital setting, patients are monitored for changes in condition, whether it be improvement or deterioration, allowing clinicians to decide the course of action to follow in their care.
Ambulances, started to affect today’s modern health care after the Civil war. Ambulances are specially equipped motor vehicles. Ambulances carry sick, or injured people from the spot of their accident, to the closest hospital. Ambulances are part of the emergency medical services, EMS, which also includes helicopters, airplanes, and boats. Ambulances typically have room for one or more people. Ambulances can also hold many medical personnel and medical supplies.
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Emergency care has always been an important part of history all over the world. It has been said that medical assistance has been around and prevalent since as far back as 1500 B.C. Around the 1700’s is when EMS systems first began to experience large advancements, and ever since then, the field continues to grow and improve every year.
Imagine finding your child pulse less and not breathing. What a terrifying thought! Would you know how to save your child’s life? The number of parents that do not know CPR is astounding. Simply knowing CPR could make a dramatic difference in the lives of you and your loved ones.
Doctors Without Borders work in war zones, places where natural disasters have occurred, where populations have displaced or where hunger and epidemics have increased. Specifically, they work in 80 countries worldwide, in Europe, Africa, and in America (particularly in South America). They choose these places because that is where their help is particularly needed, so their action is not biased in any kind of way. The MSF is prompt to answer to any emergency around the world – it takes about 48 hours or less to reach the country in which they are needed (the trip will depend on the distance and the weather), and the medical machineries will get to the country in about 72 hours. Astutely, every MSF is provided with a pre-packed disaster kit,
To achieve a degree in Athletic Training, there are many tasks and skills to be learned. The Education Council under the National Athletic Training Association put together an education program filled with a set of guidelines of what has to be taught to graduate with a degree in Athletic Training. Before you can learn and understand Athletic Training, you must know the Anatomy and Physiology of the human body. This includes bones, muscles, levels of organization, tissue levels, systems of the body, skeletal structure, articulations, integrative functions, sensory function, blood, and embryology (Martini, 2001). Besides Anatomy and Physiology, the methods of taping is also extremely critical to this career. Before you can understand what each taping techniques are used for, you must also know about sports injuries. Athletic Training is all about the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and evaluation of athletic injuries. Another skill that must be learned in the Athletic Training Education Program is how to provide immediate emergency care. That includes everything from background information to actually being able to save an athlete’s or any one else’s life. You must be aware of legal considerations, how and when to approach a victim, the human body systems, examining the victim, basic life support, bleeding and shock, identifying wounds, sudden illnesses, injuries, and how to care for them; also you must be aware of cold and heat related injuries, and how to rescue and move victims (Thygerson, 2001). Other information to be learned includes nutrition, health, and professional development. There are several other topics of Athletic Training; however, there are just to many to s...
are put through countless hours of mental and physical training to endure any possible situation that
There are five different mission sets that the teams work in. They are Emergency Response, Remediation and Restoration, Technical Escort of materials, Technical Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear support to COCOMs and Homeland Security. Emergency Response is one of the primary m...
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...rs and others that will answer the call to aid those in need of help or assistance or in actually dangerous situations.
The roles of emergency services consist on the medical team who is responsible for scene assessment of personnel and equipment requirements, coordinating information to and from hospitals, oversee treatment from medical and nursing personnel, the ambulance crew will do the triage, patient transfer from the scene, and health service communication. The fire services are responsible for eliminating the fire and rescue trapped casualties using specialist equipment, the police team will control the traffic to aid evacuation, identify and move the dead, maintain law and
Regretfully, with no legislation in India to protect the person providing first aid, the biggest hurdle is fear of liability. As is evident, victims of road accidents are left to their destiny as the first aid worker dare not touch the victim. First aid or alternatively emergency care as it is called, is the instant help given to a sick or injured to ease off the pain or prevent the condition from worsening until a proper medical treatment is made available. It is that crucial initial action, which can prove to reduce serious injury and help improve the chances of