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Pain Control for Hydrofluoric Acid Chemical Burn Using EMLA® creams (EMLA® 연고를 이용한 불산 화학 화상의 통증 조절)

  • Choi, Hwan Jun;Song, Jin Woo;Choi, Chang Yong
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.113-117
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: Although Hydrofluoric acid(HF) is not a strong acid when compared to other hydrogen halides, it is a feared corrosive and is particularly dangerous at higher concentrations. HF burns are characterized by symptoms, often delayed and localized with diluted HF solutions, to include erythema, edema and severe pain. Pain, a well known symptom following exposure to calcium binding. And, EMLA$^{(R)}$ cream is a topical formulation based upon the eutectic mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine and is used in clinical settings to provide pain relief undergoing superficial surgical procedures. The aim of this study is to evaluate effects of EMLA$^{(R)}$ cream, pain - control dressing on the treatment for HF injury wound. Methods: From June 2007 to June 2008, this study was carried out with 10 patients who had HF partial thickness burns. We were applied topically EMLA$^{(R)}$ cream to injured wound with vaseline gauze and 10% calcium gluconate wet gauze dressings. As a principle, in the emergency treatment, partial or complete removal of the bullae along with copious washing with normal saline was done, depending on the degree of HF invasion of the distal digital extremities. The effect of dressing was investigated by visual analogue pain scale. Results: We therefore reviewed 10 cases of HF - induced pain and pain relief treatment principle. The 10 cases who came to the hospital nearly immediately after the injury healed completely without sequelae and EMLA$^{(R)}$ related complications. Conclusion: Proper initial treatment of HF burns are important, if not promptly recognized and properly treated, for produce serious injury. Topical EMLA$^{(R)}$ cream remain a powerful, new advancement for minimizing HF - related pain during dressing procedures. When used appropriately, topical EMLA$^{(R)}$ cream can provide a safe and effective alternative to other forms of HF - pain control treatment.

Development of Variable Air Mattresses for Shelter based on Disaster Prevention Design (방재디자인기반 구호소 가변식 에어매트 개발)

  • Noh, Hwang-Woo;Chung, Yong-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.80-87
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    • 2022
  • Most of the disaster relief items provided to sufferers and temporary evacuees that are supposed to be victims in Korea are not suitable for the shelter environment of temporary housing facilities, and are not satisfactory because they do not have the functions, proper size and types. The purpose of this study is to analyze the user needs of emergency rescue relief items by presenting problems about the use environment and to develop the variable air mattresses which are based on disaster prevention design. In order to secure objectivity such as usability, convenience, and durability, research data are limited. However, the difficulty of mass spreading of conventional fiber mat and the functional disadvantages of foam plastic mat are solved by adopting variable air mattresses. The variable air mattresses are expected to help rehabilitate people by helping victims of physical tiredness, illness worsening, poor sleep, and life instability that can happen during long-term shelter life.

A Comparison of Chest Compression Quality According to 2 Rescuers' Teamwork-Oriented Encouragement Method in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(CPR) Guidelines for 2010 (2010년 심폐소생술 가이드라인에서 2인 구조자의 팀워크 중심의 격려방법에 따른 가슴압박 질 비교)

  • Park, Sang-Sub
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.5169-5178
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine difference in quality of chest compression according to encouragement method of focusing on two rescuers' teamwork in CPR guideline for 2010. Subjects were randomly extracted the Dept. Emergency Medical Technology students who completed the curriculum of CPR. A group was divided into the group with one-time encouragement(33 people) and the group with continuous encouragement(33 people). Measurement period was progressed from April 30, 2012 to May 7. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS WIN program(version 12.0). As a result of research, the accuracy of chest compression(time, %) was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(118.72 times, 78.54%) than the group with continuous encouragement(95.12 times, 62.96%). As for the recognition of subjective concentration, the recognition as saying of being helpful for concentration was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(3.90 points) than the group with continuous encouragement(3.12 points). Even as for the recognition of subjective fatigue relief, the recognition as saying of being helpful for fatigue relief was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(3.96 points) than the group with continuous encouragement(3.30 points).

A Study on the Administration System for Disaster Relief in Korea (한국 재난관리체계의 문제점과 개선방향)

  • Kang, Byung-Woo
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.133-145
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    • 2001
  • The scale of disasters is very large, also the influence of disasters is irreversible. Korean people has continuously learned how to deal with disaster management law. However, as time goes by after the many disaster, the concern with the disaster management by the people seems to become old and banal topic which nobody has interest in. If so, can it be said that our society is safe from the disaster? This study start from critical mind of asking this question. This study puts an emphasis on the problems such as following; To realize whole concept of disaster management provided in the basic civil defense law, the combined disaster management should be required to be established, the combined law should play a integral part for prevention for the disaster and should be a concrete basis of various laws for disaster management. Establishing a consolidated organization for disaster managing and united response organization is necessary. This consolidated organization is not temporary one such as civil disaster control headquarter but permanent one such as Disaster Management Office which controls an over all aspects of disaster management. Temporary organization should not be divided into natural calamity and man-made calamity but integrated one as a single control tower for all sorts of disasters. The police and army under fire fighting system should be reconsidered. It is necessary to make leadership system on the disaster place more substantial centered around present fire fighting system. To do so, more clear division of duty is required. The working condition should be improved so that all public servants in this agency can play their roles with pride and worth. The resource owned the existing administrative organization must be used by an appointment system. And to manage a large scale of disaster, it is necessary to have interorganizational network system which many specialized organization including volunteer group are integrated. And the natural disaster happen, many professionals and volunteers are distributed to the spots of disaster in the right man in the right place. Finally, citizen's consciousness about safety supervision needs to be recover.

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Development of an AVL System for Fire Fighting Services (소방용 AVL 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Yong;Moon, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.886-892
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    • 2010
  • It is possible to use wireless communication any time in every place because of well-developed wireless networks and mobile devices. The AVL(Automatic Vehicle Location) system, therefore, has made practical use in situation control, distribution industry, home delivery service, and ITS(Intelligent Transportation System) area. In this paper, we design and implement an AVL system in order to use for fire fighting activities such as emergency rescue and relief. To do this, first, we investigate and analyze the existing researches and systems related to AVL system. In details, we develop an AVL server and clients to support stable communication each other using wireless networks. Using AVL system, calling cars find the position of accidents quickly and the fire defense headquarters control unforeseen accidents efficiently because the state of calling cars are confirmed in real time by their GPS data.

Risk Management and Telecommunications Research for customers of the accident location (사고선박의 고객위치파악용 위험관리 통신연구)

  • Kwak, Eun-young;Park, Dea-woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.331-335
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    • 2016
  • When a boating accident, such as a January number three, the customer's risk management issues emerged. Ships and accident risk in confined spaces such as risk management to locate the customer and dangers of probation is available. In this paper, aboard after consent to obtain information for customers to wrist to customers, webbing or portable device embedded in devices and Wireless sensor information Input was attached, disposable consumer information. Customer on board the ship setting for location analysis and positioning according to information communication protocol, ships, each customer's real-time location information on the screen, 3 the foundation of d customers on the floor Can be designed to inform. Threshold designed to reduce the error of the information to analyze the position in current position and errors. Also, to system attacks would control the situation of accident and emergency jaenanguk server with real-time information transmission of information outside the emergency during a disaster, search and Disaster relief to be possible.

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Comparative Analysis of Earthquake Management in Pohang and Japan (포항 지진과 일본 지진관리 업무 비교·분석)

  • Kim, Su Ran;Kim, Hye Won
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to create a disaster management system after an earthquake. Japan's earthquake disaster management system, including the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act, addresses all of the disaster phases of prevention, mitigation, preparedness and emergency response as well as recovery and reconstruction with roles and responsibilities among the national and local governments clearly defined. Korea's earthquake disaster management system are including the Disaster Countermeasures Basic, but when the 9.12 earthquake occurred, problems such as insufficient early response, study on the earthquake lack were revealed. This study conducted a field survey and analyzed coping process after Po Hang earthquake. Therefore, this study have found that Disaster Management Headquarters are operated rapidly. They are coped with urgent safety inspection for damage facilities and soil liquefaction with advanced equipment. And The headquarters interviewed with victims. So they found out What the victims needed. However, when carrying out relief activities, Research of temporary housing and allocation of donations was not rapid. Further, this study have found that earthquake specialists were lack and disaster information transfer was not working. This study will be utilized as fundamental data in planning disaster management system after an earthquake.

Disaster Cooperation Strategies between North and South Korea based on Sendai Framework

  • CHOI, Junho;LEE, Dongkwan;CHOI, Choongik
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.509-515
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    • 2020
  • TThe cooperation on disaster prevention between the two Koreas has been mostly focused on cooperation at the recovery stage, such as emergency relief supplies and equipment support. This study aims to articulate future practical development plans by analyzing disaster cooperation between North and South Korea in accordance with the changing paradigm of international disaster cooperation. Considering the specificity of inter-Korean cooperation, the Framework for Inter-Korean Disaster Prevention Cooperation was established centering on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The framework consists of understanding and sharing disaster risks, building back better, strengthening community resilience, and supporting regional disaster action plans for continuous action. Inter-Korean disaster prevention cooperation requires sharing information about North Korean disasters. It is necessary to accurately identify and support social vulnerability to North Korean disasters. Above all, it is supporting the development of disaster action plans from a humanitarian perspective needs. A medium-to-long term resilience reinforcement plan that North Korea can resolve on its own is also needed. Since North Korea is also deeply interested in international disaster cooperation, it should be based on the direction of the Sendai Framework. Considering the uniqueness of inter-Korean cooperation, a path for North Korea to actively participate in international disaster cooperation should be established.

Use of Laryngeal Mask Airway in Sevoflurane Sedation for the Difficult Airway (Sevoflurane 흡입진정에서 어려운 기도관리를 위한 LMA 활용)

  • You, Tae-Min;Doh, Re-Mee;Song, Young-Gyun;Kim, Seung-Oh
    • Journal of The Korean Dental Society of Anesthesiology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 2012
  • Although sevoflurane sedation have the advantage of the reduction of anxiety and pain relief, difficult airway is attributed to increased agitation, tachycardia, desaturation, ventilation difficulty, sedation failure. In the sedation for dental treatment, we should pay more attention to the airway management because dental procedures take place in the mouth of airway unlike any other area. The layngeal mask airway (LMA) has become commonly used device for airway management during anesthesia for relatively short procedures, such as minor oral surgery and dental procedures. It can be inserted without use of a larygoscope and muscle relexants, and insertion is easy to achieve and generally takes less time than endotracheal intubation. The LMA is an excellent barrier against aspiration of saliva, blood within the surgical field but should not be used in patients at risk of aspiration In this study, we reported that after a failure of airway management in inhalation sedation, we performed the short-emergency dental treatment successfully, using a laryngeal mask.

A Study on the Disaster Safety Communication Network (재난안전통신망에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Heau-Jo
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2014
  • The disaster safety communication infrastructure is necessary basic infrastructure for protection of people's lives, safety and wealth. In order to build this infrastructure needs ensure public safety disaster communication technology and cooperation disaster recovery agencies. Recently advanced national disaster safety communication infrastructure necessity according to people's expectations increase for public safety is emerging as domestic and international. And there is situation which required leading rolls of country. In this paper, we analyzed public disaster safety communication status of domestic and international. Also, we analyzed Korea disaster safety communication management necessity and proposed its policy implication.