• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.201-205
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• 2006

Tension viscerothorax (gastrothorax) is rare life-threatening disease which is caused by air trapped in viscera. A distended viscera in the hemi-thorax shifts the mediastinal structures and causes extra-cardiac obstructive shock. A defective diaphragm is caused by abdominal trauma or a congenital anomaly. Traumatic diaphragmatic injury can be missed until herniation develops several years after blunt trauma. In our case, a 10-year old boy developed hemodynamic compromise in the emergency department. Three years earlier, he had suffered blunt abdominal trauma during a pedestrian traffic accident, but there was no evidence of diaphragmatic injury at that time. He was successfully resuscitated by gastric decompression and an emergent thoracic operation. The operation finding revealed a traumatic diaphragmatic injury. Tension viscerothorax is a rare, but catastrophic, condition, so we suggest that addition of tension viscerothorax to the Advanced Trauma and Life Support (ATLS) guidelines may be helpful.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-39
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• 2002

본 연구는 임상간호사의 심폐소생술에 대한 지식과 기술을 향상시키기 위해 웹 기반의 교육 프로그램을 개발하고 평가하는 데 목적이 있다. 2002년 2월 1일부터 4월 30의 기간동안 류세앙(1999)이 수정한 프로그램 개발과정에 의해 분석, 설계, 자료수집 및 개발, 프로그래밍 및 구현, 평가를 거쳐 웹 기반의 심폐소생술 간호교육 프로그램을 개발하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 본 프로그램은 심폐소생술의 의의와 중요성, 기본심폐소생술, 장기심폐소생술, 소생술 후 간호를 학습내용으로 하여 텍스트 자료, 사진, 그림, 동영상 자료 등을 나모 웹 에디터, 스캐너, Adobe photoshop 등을 이용하여 인터넷 파일 제작과 이미지 수정단계를 거쳐 FTP(File Transfer Protocol)을 이용하여 웹에 올리고 시범운영을 통해 최종 수정하여 완성된 프로그램이 개발되었다. 2) 평가단계에서는 D시내에 소재한 K대학병원에 근무하는 간호사 36명을 임의표출하여 프로그램을 사용한 후의 반응을 조사하였다. 이에 대한 결과는 다음과 같다. 학습교재 관련특성의 평점은 $4.2{\pm}.67$, 학습 시스템 관련특성의 평점은 $4.0{\pm}.79$점, 학습자 만족도 관련특성에 대한 반응에서 학습자의 만족도는 $4.2{\pm}.58$점, 다른 교육 프로그램의 개발필요성은 $4.3{\pm}.62$점을 얻어 총평점은 $4.1{\pm}.45$점이었다. 특히, 멀티미디어 자료의 적절성은 $4.3{\pm}.68$점, 다른 교육 프로그램의 개발필요성은 $4.3{\pm}.62$점이었고, 화면구성과 배색의 적절성에서 $3.8{\pm}.81$점, 화면크기와 글자크기의 적절성에서 $3.7{\pm}.81$점이었다. 이상의 결과를 볼 때 프로그램 평가에 대한 분석작업을 거쳐 교육 프로그램의 지속적인 업그레이드 작업이 이루어진다면 본 웹 기반의 간호교육 프로그램이 간호사들의 계속교육과 평생교육에 활용될 수 있는 효과적인 교육 프로그램이 될 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2010

Objective : The purpose of this study is to understand the status of continuing education of the EMTs of the Korean fire department, to identify demand of them for content, method, and forms of the education, and to present basic data for developing more efficient, effective continuing education programs. Methods : The subjects of this study were 850 of the EMTs of the Korean fire department who work for fire stations located in Seoul and part of Gyeonggi-do and directly provide critical care in the field. The data was collected between February 8 and 28, 2010. Using SPSS 17.0 program, we obtained frequencies percentages, means, and standard deviations, and performed independent two sample t-test, one way ANOVA, and Cronbach's ${\alpha}$. Results : 1) As for status of the existing continuing education for of the EMTs of the Korean fire department, in general, the hour of each education was "less than four hours" (51.2%), the instructors of the education were "doctors" (65.2%), the method of the education was "lecture" (83.3%), the material for the education was "educational materials and slides" (97.2%), and the results from the education were "not helpful in job" (55.1%). 2) The effects of the EMTs of the Korean fire department were mean 2.44(${\pm}.51$), the ability was mean 2.40(${\pm}.50$), and the attitude was mean 2.49(${\pm}.57$) points. 3) As for the demands of the EMTs of the Korean fire department on the next continuing education, they preferred "the advanced cardiac life support(ACLS)" ($2.64{\pm}.62$) most in subject content, "investigating the demands of 119 emergency medical technicians annually" (44.1%) in methods to select subjects of the continuing education, "doctors and professors of Department of Emergency Medical Technology" in instructors of the education (190 persons, or 39.9%), "lectures with practices" in methods of the education (30.1%), and "One per year" (41.6%) and "less than four hours" (67.2%) in the period and hours of the text continuing education they hope. Conclusion : The continuing education for the EMTs of the Korean fire department conducts without accepting the demands of the technicians, In planning of the next continuing education, the results of this study suggest that it is needed to develop more various and professional educational program by active acquisition of the demands of the technicians.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.199-212
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• 2001

This research, aiming at analyzing the Emergency Medical Technicians' duties prior to establishing a baseline for question development in the national exams to qualify for the EMTs, investigated the importance and frequency per unit specified in the description with the EMTs to be subjects working on the task spot by means of questionnaires. The EMT duties were classified into 9 items like 1) the notification and response, 2) the scene size-up, 3) the patient assessment, 4) the emergency care, 5) the patient transport, 6) the duties at hospital clinics, 7) the operational management, 8) the receiving and responding to a call, 9) the self-development, and put the functional tasks into 52 items, describing the task elements into 177 items, and then questioned 112 EMTs working on the spot from July 21 through August 30, 2000, which showed the following results. 1) The distribution of subjects' career showed the highest rate with 33.9% for those who careered "less than a year", only 13.4% for those with more than 4 years and the highest rate with 43.8% for those who aged at 20-25. And 70.5% of all those who were questioned was the junior college graduates, 58.9% for those working at fire station and 29.5% working at hospital clinics. 2) Looking at the distribution of frequency and importance for each task element, questioning 'the patients main symptoms', 'accidental type', 'place of the patients identification' showed the highest rate in both frequency and importance in the field of "notification and response". 3) In the "scene size-up", identifying the patients showed the highest rate of frequency and importance, compared to other field of tasks, among which "identifying the patients' state" showed the highest rate of frequency (2.66) and importance (2.81). 4) In the "patient assessment", "identifying the patients" showed the high rate of frequency and importance in most elements of task, especially the importance showed the highest rate with 2.83 for the task of airway management and the cervical immobilization during "the primary assessment", and the frequency showed the highest rate for questioning the past case of the task of grasping the patients' history. 5) In the "emergency care", "the management of the heart attacked patients" and "the advanced cardiac life support" showed a high rate in the importance, whereas the frequency showed a very low rate. The high rate of frequency during the emergent task was the management of "musculoskeletal system injury patients" and of "the gastro-intestinal and urinary genital system injury patient support." In care of the patients with heart attack, the management of the airway showed the highest rate with 2.95, whereas the management of alcoholic abused patients and of dying patients, showed comparatively lower rate of assessment in the importance. The frequency of tasks showed the highest rate with 2.69 in the control of bleeding and the lowest with 0.47 in the management of abnormal delivery of child. 6) As to the patient transport, "the emergency transport" showed the highest rate with 2.74 and the unemergent transport with 2.55 in the importance, and the task importance at hospital showed the highest rate with 2.89 in managing the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and with 2.60 in identifying the patient state. 7) Of all the tasks related with "operational task", the high importance was to "educate for the management of the first responder", but the frequency of tasks mostly showed a low rate and "receiving and responding to a call" showed relatively a high rate of importance and frequency. And related with "the self-development", "the health care management" and "the stress control" on working spot showed a high rate, but the frequency mostly showed a low rate.