Emergency Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The Problem of Delayed care in Paediatric Emergency Rooms

Statistics indicate that children are among the heaviest users of emergency rooms. In America, for example, more than 800,000 children require care from the emergency department (ED) daily. These cases translate to more than 31 million cases of pediatric emergency cases annually in America alone (Barata et al., 2015). There are many concerns regarding the preparedness s of the ED to handle this influx of patients. It is easy to point out that delay in care is a real concern given the big number of patients and the lack of proper training or supervision of the emergency care ...

Literature Review on the topic of Disaster and Emergency Management Systems

Disasters are the regular companions of the mankind. They bring losses and devastation, ruin crops and take people’s lives. The list of cities that have been destroyed is endless and reminds people of the fact that nature is forever with us. Nevertheless, man’s activity and ambitions seem to have no boundaries. Such catastrophes as Chernobyl, the explosions on the Piper Alpha, and other numerous fires are the results of human negligence. The one thing is certain: disasters are likely to happen but where and when is the question. Thus, disaster and emergency management in the form of ...

Introduction

Public health is the art and science of disease prevention, promoting health and prolonging life through informed choices and organized efforts of the society, communities, organizations, and individuals. It is primarily concerned with the threats to the health based on the health analysis of the population. Public health emergency preparedness and response focus on prevention against spread of diseases, epidemics and injuries as well as protect individuals against environmental hazards such as fire. Besides, it concentrates in accessibility of quality health care services as well as promotes healthy behaviors. In this paper, I primarily concentrate on public health preparedness ...

Utilization of Health Care Services by Older Adults

The admission of the elderly into the various units of the hospital is perceived to be frequent with respect to their physiological responses. Persons navigating this age group are associated with a rapid body failure in a manner that dictates on their daily livelihoods. This implies that the prospect of having these persons as patients of the various hospitals is rather elevated. However, it is vital to quantify on the category of persons that depend increasingly on the medical routines. Senile is a term that is commonly utilized in the description of the elderly with respect to their rapid failing systems. This ...

Kaplan University

Introduction:
The fact that natural disasters are sudden and inevitable and do not have a way of prevent ourselves against them, a natural disaster plan needs to be made available for families within their immediate communities with proposals and guidance on creating an in-house disaster plan for their families in the event that these non-controllable events happen. The relevance of this topic in this case is the fact that prior planning saves families a lot of time and agony once they are faced with such disasters. Before any disaster strikes, it is important for a family to develop a sustainable disaster plan for ...

4.1 Main research questions and sub research questions used
Main question: How can the current medical treatments data synchronization be optimized in relation to the hospital billing system for a more efficient and accurate billing system?

Sub question 1: Which medical billing systems is state-of-the-art in medical treatment data synchronization at this moment? (Literature)

Sub question 2: How could the current data processing and billing system be described? (Analysis)
Sub question 3: What are the requirements for an efficient, effective and accurate billing system? (Redesign)
Literature Review
Introduction
Recent literature shows that the development in technology brings numerous things that individuals have not had in many years, especially in the healthcare. The basis ...

Abstract

The Piper Alpha disaster is well known for it resulted in the highest number of casualties who lost their lives in the history of off shore oil and gas rigging. This paper reviews literature on the Piper Alpha disaster presenting an overview of the circumstances that led to the occurrence of the tragedy. Further, it examines the role that different parties played with regard to their contributions to the situation. Subsequently, an analysis of the course of action taken with regard to the management of the disaster as it happened and in its aftermath is as well evaluated. The ...

in the industrial and infrastructure sector

Abstract

In most parts of the Arab countries, the limited resources of water pose adverse constraints to both the social and economic development, while also threatening the people’s livelihood. The available surface water keeps on declining, and the ground water over-pumping that goes beyond the natural recharge rates has continued to cause great negative impact in the lowering of water table. Over-pumping of ground water also increases ground water salinity, ground water depletion, and ecological degradation (SCENR 5). The outcome prompted the Qatar government to start regulating its water resources as a measure ...

Informed Consent in Healthcare Services

Informed Consent in Healthcare Services
With the implementation of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) in 1996, new privacy regulations were in place concerning issues such as informed consent and patient authorization (Stember, 2005, p. 10). It was important for professionals to fully understand the fact of these new regulations on policies and activities so that they could ensure they were conforming to best practices. In the human services field, it is quite common for the terms "informed consent" and "authorization" for professionals to use these two terms interchangeably when referring to a written permission form that grants ...

Current research on bystander intervention has produced many outcomes indicating that the presence of other people in a critical situation, especially bullying, reduces the probability that an individual will help. Diffusion of responsibility contributes to the bystander effect. This implies that a person does not feel the need to help someone in need if several people are also present since the responsibility is among those present. Most people believe that there exist safety in numbers, but there are times when a large crowd does not support a victim. According to Barlińska, Szuzter & Winiewski (2013), “Bystanders are the social audience in many crime ...

Paramedics are mainly a group of individuals who face many challenges due to the unpredictable nature of their work. The paramedics have to perform a variety of tasks in the environment of pre-hospital (Patterson et al., 2012). Research has proven that a high percentage of healthcare providers suffer from fatigue. Scientific evidence indicates that the leading cause of medical errors in the field is fatigue (Lamond & Dawson, 1999). Sleep deprivation among the emergency medical providers is due to the variety of shifts they work in order to provide the community with a continuous 24-hour service (Lockley et al., 2007). The paper explains how ...

Focusing Events & Dates

According to the case, the Loma Prieta Earthquake occurred in northern California on October 17, 1989. The disaster caused massive destruction, particularly the collapse of Admiral Nimitz Freeway. Since the freeway was destroyed, it caused fatality of more than forty motorists and drivers collectively. Moreover, there was a major disturbance in gas lines and multiple fire ignitions damaged residential buildings.
Northridge Earthquake was the second occurrence on January 17, 1994 in Los Angeles. It was considered as the most destructive earthquake of the decade, since government paid approximately $6.97 billion as damages.
USA had experienced Hurricanes, which was another ...

Literature review

Over the past number of years, the issue of violence has generated a lot of concerns in the workplace. Different sectors experience different levels of workplace violence with 85 percent of non-fatal assaults occurring in retailing and service industries. The health care sector falls under the service industry and workers in this sector are at higher risks of workplace violence. It becomes hard to estimate the true incidence of violence towards health workers because of different definitions and data collection systems (Hartley, D., & Ridenour, 2011 #1).

Violence among health workers triggers most psychological and physical outcomes. Some of the ...

Treating Mental Health Illness – A Literature Review

ABSTRACT
The following literature review explores the capabilities of the nurse practitioner treating varieties of mental disorders as comorbidities of primary care patients. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves valuable. The efficacy of the NP in treating mental illness in patients according to the literature emerges as a valuable intervention with screening, diagnosing, and therapy options for specific patients often isolated from medical care access with mental illness including homeless, geriatric, pediatric, and the ...

Literature Review:

Emergency Hazards
Comparison and contrast

Comfort, Hauskrecht, and Lin (2008) presented a dynamic networking modelling system to guide the process of assessing and managing susceptible risks. In their approach, they viewed the entire strategy as involving a multiplicity of diverse but adaptive process to guide the management of the emergency issue. They believed that the responsibility to protect life and property among other operations in a metropolitan region lies in the idea of managing the interactions between resilience and risk. On the other hand, the ‘all hazards approach” presented by Von Lubits, Beakley, and Patricelli (2008) argues that effective ...

Nursing

Lack of sleep can affect performance in the paramedics industry (Taheri et.al, 2004). As such, techniques to reduce the impact of this irregularity ought to be developed. Clients’ lives become at risk when functions cannot be executed efficiently due to lack of sleep. This literature review explains the importance/significance of the lack of sleep; describes current state of knowledge available on the issue; offers a critical appraisal of key papers; submits a theoretical or conceptual frame that is useful to guide data collection and/or interpret findings and identifies gaps in current knowledge leading logically to the research question and hypotheses.

Importance/significance of the lack of sleep

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Abstract

Heart failure (2.6% prevalent worldwide) is a complex clinical syndrome, resulting from a structural or functional cardiac disorder and impairing ventricular filling or ejection capability. The current case of a 59-year-old male patient admitted on August 18, 2016 due to worsening shortness of breath and bilateral left extremity edema (one week) involved an existing diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2). Physical and clinical profiles indicate a comorbidity between heart failure (HF) and DM2. Laboratory and imaging findings were not indicated, while diagnosis was based on the NYHA Classification guidelines. A review of literature revealed three crucial weaknesses in the diagnosis. ...

Counter Measures to the Bullwhip Effect

Introduction
The bullwhip effect is the unexpected distortion of the supply chain. It refers to the “variability of order rates” (Disney and Lambrecht, 2008, p. 3). This supply chain hazard has its roots in Jay Forrester’s Industrial Dynamics Theory of the late 1950s (Goldsby and Martichenko, 2005). Forrester was the first person to introduce the concept and simulate a model in 1961. There are many solutions to counter the bullwhip effect.
The reason why there are many solutions to the bullwhip effect is because it is triggered by multiple causes. For instance, the most common cause is overreacting ...

Abstract

Nurses have been responsible for providing primary health care in the modern health care system as well as all through history. Advance practice registered nurses can be certified in different roles. One of the important roles is that of a Geronotological Nursing Practitioner (GNP). Geriatric nurses have become a significant part of modern medicine as they are the primary care givers to elderly patients and it is recognized as a very critical advance practice nursing specialty. GNP’s are entrusted to manage a very critical part of patient care, and they have to be vigilant at all times to ...

After a massive methane gas leak, Governor of California, Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, January sixth, 2016. The methane leak had taken place near the Porter Ranch that neighbors the North West part of California. The governor cited the reason that the government was not protecting the safety and health of the public by letting the gas flow to the atmosphere for more than eleven weeks, and he wanted the California Gas Company to be accounted for all the violations and costs.
According to an official coming from the California Air Resources Board, the leak ...

Abstract

Ventilation Associate pneumonia is a nosocomial infection that affects immobile patients, especially those admitted in the Intensive Care Unit. The management of these patients has been challenged and it triggered numerous studies on the most efficient ways of managing such patients. In the ward care of a patient that is ambulant and can describe changes in their condition it is easy not to pay attention to the positions of the patients. However, in the acute wards, the positioning of such patients is significant in prevention of complications. One of the main challenges is pneumonia. The positioning of the head ...

Overcrowding or overpopulation in prisons is defined as a situation when prison(s) hosts more prisoners contrary to the certified normal accommodation (CNA) as stipulated in the establishment’s requirements (Garcia & Marco, 2012, p. 37). This can be validated when there is the scarcity of rooms for inmates to sleep. Besides, the inability of facilities to offer adequate meals or food, poor health care services for inmates, insufficient staff who can care for inmates and ensure their safety as well as the lack of designated accommodation facilities necessary for detaining separately various types of prisoners, more so those that ...

Falls Prevention in Nursing Homes for the Elderly Literature Review

Elderlies or individuals who belong to the geriatric population can be prone to a lot of illnesses and diseases. This is mainly because of the consequences of degeneration. As a person grows old, most body systems’ functions deteriorate. Examples would be degradations in the functions of the immune system to combat diseases and infection, and the muscular and skeletal system to prevent falls. In this paper, the author conducts a brief but thorough literature review on measures how falls can be prevented in nursing homes for elderly people.
Nurses play an important role in patient care and disease prevention. ...

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a lifelong metabolic disorder which is caused by the abnormal level of sugar in the blood. The information technology is playing an important role in the seamless data collection of the diabetic patient’s glucose and insulin level, heart rate, and weight and transfer through different devices and made it available to the health practitioner for their observation. This helps the diabetic patient in self management of their health based on the data processed by the apps present in the phone or devices. This paper reviews the information technologies role and benefits in the management ...

The outsourcing in the textile and clothing industry is in a continuous movement and evolution, which was speed up by the rapid technological development, globalization or economic liberalization of various geographic areas.

The various shifts in the global sourcing in the textile and apparel industry have been hand in hand with the global social and economic shifts. Gereff (2002) notes that the history of sourcing was shaped in the fifties, when US and Western Europe countries where importing from Japan, which later imported from the Asian Tigers Hong King, Taiwan and ...

Improving The Efficiency of Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Abstract
The Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is known to be an important pathogen among patients with prolonged confinement to the intensive care unit and longer hospital stays (Vincent, 2010). The virus is recognized to be a common form of the herpes virus, which the Centers for Disease Control described to be present in about 50% to 80% of the people in the United States who are in their 40’s (Mandal, 2014). The infection can actually affect children and adults alike, however the virus has the greatest impact among certain individuals, especially among children and those with a compromised immune system and ...

In the days, months and years after the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming the entire country and indeed most of the world focused heavily on the victim’s sexuality and the motives behind his murderer’s savagery. For them, Matthew Shepard was reduced to a representation of the LGBT cause; a poster boy of sorts. However, for the people of Laramie, Matthew Shepard represented more than that. In this essay, I attempt to analyze the reactions a number Laramie residents to the events surrounding Matthew Shepard’s murder and the effect this had on them as portrayed in Moises Kaufmann’ ...

The article by Jamelle Bouie was written amidst the recent riots that just occurred in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray who died while in police custody. Janelle’s article captures the events that followed after what Baltimore residents considered as police brutality from the street riots, looting and burning of buildings, a curfew placement and declaration of a state of emergency. Jamelle also explains Baltimore’s failed past decisions that were made over 100 years ago that define the riots in Baltimore. The audience in this article is not directed to any group of people specifically. Anyone can read ...

Literature Review

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Introduction

Between the periods 1980 to 1992, consumption of illicit drugs in the United States increased from 29% to 42% among 12th grade adolescence, and from 11% to 21% among eight grade students. Other statistics shows that in the 12th grade 80% are students on alcoholic. More than half of them have been doing it in the eighth grade; 75% had smoked cigarettes, of this group, 35% became habitual smokers. The greatest challenge is faced by families, who, no matter what their social or economic level, must devise strategies to help their adolescence. Studies have been done to prove ...

Background information

Critical thinking is one of most highly valued educational outcomes in the professional education of healthcare professionals. Educationalists tend to emphasize the importance of teaching future healthcare professionals how to think, rather than the need to improve the contents of curricula. This view stems from the fact that the nursing process is highly concerned with problem-solving and decision-making-related activity that requires acquisition and continuous improvement of related skills (Yilldrim, Ozkahraman &Karabudak, 2011, p.174) As nursing education is directly related to critical thinking theory, tparticularly the development of these skills is essential for curricula in nursing educational instituions (Yilldrim&Ozkahraman, 2011, ...

Introduction

Industrial/Organizational psychology is an applied science dealing with psychology of ‘people at work’. (Kalat 2002). The workplace dynamics comprise of both tangible and non-tangible elements, both of which impact on employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees tend to be more committed and enthusiastic about their work. Moreover, employee satisfaction and dedication is contingent on a number of closely related variables such as, employee engagement, empowerment, the perceived (organizational) support structures as well as the organization’s commitment to employee welfare. Employees feel empowered when they have more opportunities for interacting with colleagues, a certain level of decision making authority and are accorded a fair ...

Abstract

Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis.
One of the ...

Management

Goss (2005), in Building a Contingency Menu: Using Capabilities-Based Planning for Homeland Defense and Homeland Security, says that Homeland Defense and Security planners need to develop a contingency plan to neutralize potential terrorist threats. Because of their shrewd and adaptive strategies, the Department of Homeland Defense and Security agency has come up with the concepts of ‘lines of operation’ ‘capabilities’ as the dynamics to define and explain potential and likely interactions. Moving from the more rational idea of, ‘who is the threat?’ to ‘what could the threat do?’ has given Homeland Defense and Security planners a broader spectrum of possibilities to explore ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic overview of lean supply chain methodology. This will also provide how the concept was evolved over the years. The paper will provide a brief overview of the basic pillars of lean supply chain and then look at the tools used to implement and monitor lean supply chain methodology. This paper also will discuss the limitations of the current lean supply chains methodology. It will then compare lean supply chain concepts with agile supply chains and green supply chains to bring out the similarities and differences. Finally the paper will provide some ...

Introduction

Migraine is characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches and autonomic nervous system symptoms such as aura. The headache pulsates on one side of the head only. Additional symptoms of migraine include sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. According to Robbins and Lipton, migraines are caused by both genetic and environmental factors and affect up to 15% of the global population at some point in life.1 Typically, the severe headache persist for over two hours but may last up to three days.

Pathophysiology of Migraines

Migraines are chronic neurovascular disorder. Goadsby asserts that the condition starts in the brain and ...

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Introduction
There are number of alcohol related issues that are preferably associated with social and disciplinary aspects of society. While conducting analysis it has been significantly analyzed that the use of alcohol has implicate various adverse impacts on family and social life of an individual involve. Australian society avoids hearing the fact that the society is suffering from huge number of alcoholic issues. At the same time there are number of other overseas nations that represents to have serious issues with alcohol. In reference to Australia, it has been examined that in Victoria alcoholic related issues cost more ...

Abstract

There are many developments that are seen with the handling of health records in clinical settings. Health records are an important issue in managing hospitals. Patient data is important to both patients, doctors, clinicians, the government and medical organizations. This is because they are used to assess the health status of a patient. The government is working hard to ensure that the medical procedures are being automated so that there is accuracy and reliability of the systems is an important aspect when handling patient records. This is the reason as to why automation and development of information systems to manage ...

What are the effects of sleep deprivation for paramedics?

Hypothesis
HY 1---WORK QUALITY DECREASES WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION1
HY2---THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES DECREASES WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION
Although many individual EMTs attempt to cope with the effects of sleep deprivation by withdrawing from their personal lives or reducing the time spent at work-studies show that neither of these coping mechanisms are effective. While this is a problem that confronts shift workers everywhere it is dramatically brought home to EMT workers who sometimes have to respond to situations where the patient causes an accident because they themselves were sleep deprived.
In Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Firefighters ...

Improving patient safety

A myriad of studies have identified lack of teamwork and communication breakdowns within the process of care provision as the major causes of critical/sentinel incidents and even loss of life that is otherwise preventable. A meta-analytic review of 11 such studies established that of the 2,677 critical incidents reported in the various studies, 49% had occurred due to poor non-technical skills; 20% of these were attributed to poor communication and teamwork. Lack of communication regarding initiation of new therapies and failure to effectively communicate a patient’s priorities to other members of the health care team were among the ...