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Employee Perceptions of Their Organization's Level of Emergency Preparedness Following a Brief Workplace Emergency Planning Educational Presentation

  • Renschler, Lauren A.;Terrigino, Elizabeth A.;Azim, Sabiya;Snider, Elsa;Rhodes, Darson L.;Cox, Carol C.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.166-170
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    • 2016
  • A brief emergency planning educational presentation was taught during work hours to a convenience sample of employees of various workplaces in Northern Missouri, USA. Participants were familiarized with details about how an emergency plan is prepared by management and implemented by management-employee crisis management teams - focusing on both employee and management roles. They then applied the presentation information to assess their own organization's emergency preparedness level. Participants possessed significantly (p < 0.05) higher perceptions of their organization's level of emergency preparedness than non-participants. It is recommended that an assessment of organizational preparedness level supplement emergency planning educational presentations in order to immediately apply the material covered and encourage employees to become more involved in their organization's emergency planning and response. Educational strategies that involve management-employee collaboration in activities tailored to each workplace's operations and risk level for emergencies should be implemented.

응급구조사의 수면상태와 직무 스트레스가 우울에 미치는 영향 (Influence of Job Stress and State of Sleep on the Depression of Emergency Medical Technicians)

  • 이춘이;변은경;김남희
    • 한국직업건강간호학회지
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    • 제22권3호
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of job stress, state of sleep, and depression and to identify factors influencing depression of emergency medical technicians. Methods: The research was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. Data collection were done using self-report questionnaires with 162 emergency medical technicians working in hospitals who agreed to participate in the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 18.0 Program. Results: Depression had significant negative correlations with state of sleep, (r=-482, p<.001) and positive correlations with job stress (r=.196,p=.013). State of sleep had significant negative correlations with job stress (r=-.168, p=.033). The variance for life satisfaction was 23.7% (F=25.964, p<.001). Variable of state of sleep significantly predicted depression of emergency medical technicians. Conclusion: Considering these results, for emergency medical technicians' job stress, state of sleep, and depression, further studies are needed. Furthermore, there is a need to develop and implement new strategies to improve depression among emergency medical technicians.

Preventive and Emergency Control of Power System for Transient Stability Enhancement

  • Siddiqui, Shahbaz A.;Verma, Kusum;Niazi, K.R.;Fozdar, Manoj
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents preventive and emergency control measures for on line transient stability (security) enhancement. For insecure operating state, generation rescheduling based on a real power generation shift factor (RPGSF) is proposed as a preventive control measure to bring the system back to secure operating state. For emergency operating state, two emergency control strategies namely generator shedding and load shedding have been developed. The proposed emergency control strategies are based on voltage magnitudes and rotor trajectories data available through Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) installed in the systems. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been investigated on IEEE-39 bus test system under different contingency and fault conditions and application results are presented.

Lifesaver: Android-based Application for Human Emergency Falling State Recognition

  • Abbas, Qaisar
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제21권8호
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2021
  • Smart application is developed in this paper by using an android-based platform to automatically determine the human emergency state (Lifesaver) by using different technology sensors of the mobile. In practice, this Lifesaver has many applications, and it can be easily combined with other applications as well to determine the emergency of humans. For example, if an old human falls due to some medical reasons, then this application is automatically determining the human state and then calls a person from this emergency contact list. Moreover, if the car accidentally crashes due to an accident, then the Lifesaver application is also helping to call a person who is on the emergency contact list to save human life. Therefore, the main objective of this project is to develop an application that can save human life. As a result, the proposed Lifesaver application is utilized to assist the person to get immediate attention in case of absence of help in four different situations. To develop the Lifesaver system, the GPS is also integrated to get the exact location of a human in case of emergency. Moreover, the emergency list of friends and authorities is also maintained to develop this application. To test and evaluate the Lifesaver system, the 50 different human data are collected with different age groups in the range of (40-70) and the performance of the Lifesaver application is also evaluated and compared with other state-of-the-art applications. On average, the Lifesaver system is achieved 95.5% detection accuracy and the value of 91.5 based on emergency index metric, which is outperformed compared to other applications in this domain.

CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING IMPROVEMENT OF EMERGENCY EVASION PERFORMANCE

  • Nozaki, H.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.187-193
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    • 2006
  • When emergency evasion during running is required, a driver sometimes causes a vehicle to drift, that is, a condition in which the rear wheels skid due to rapid steering. Under such conditions, the vehicle enters a very unstable state and often becomes uncontrollable. An unstable state of the vehicle induced by rapid steering was simulated and the effect of differential steering assistance was examined. Results indicate that, in emergency evasion while cornering and during which the vehicle begins to drift, unstable behavior like spins can be avoided by differential steering assistance and both the stability and control of the vehicle is improved remarkably. In addition, reduction of overshoot during spin evasion by the differential steering assistance has been shown to enable the vehicle to return to a state of stability in a short time in emergency evasion during straight-line running. Moreover, the effectiveness of differential steering assistance during emergency evasion was confirmed using a driving simulator.

유기인계 농약 중독 환자에서 중추신경 독성으로 지속적인 의식장애를 보인 1례 (A Case of Central Nervous System (CNS) Toxicity in Acute Organophosphate Intoxication)

  • 이재성;백진휘;윤성현;김지혜;한승백;김준식;정현민
    • 대한임상독성학회지
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.31-35
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    • 2013
  • Acute organophosphate intoxication is important because of its high morbidity and mortality. The mortality is still high despite the use of atropine as specific antidotal therapy and oximes for reactivation of acetylcholinesterase. Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase by organophosphate can cause acute parasympathetic system dysfunction, muscle weakness, seizure, coma, and respiratory failure. Acute alteration in conscious state or a coma, which may occur following organophosphate intoxication, is an indication of severe intoxication and poorer prognosis. This acute decline in conscious state often reverses when the cholinergic crisis settles; however, it may be prolonged in some patients. We report on a case of a 60-year-old male who showed prolonged decline in conscious state due to of Central Nervous System (CNS) toxicity after a suicide attempt with organophosphate.

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Nuda vida y espacio límite en La transmigración de los cuerpos de Yuri Herrera

  • Michel, Gerardo Gomez
    • 이베로아메리카
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.271-295
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    • 2016
  • In dialogue with the concepts of State of Emergency and Bare Life developed by Giorgio Agamben (1998), this paper explores the novel La transmigración de los cuerpos (2013) by Yuri Herrera, to see how the author builds a narrative space where the logic of the state of emergency is a detonator of the fictional plot. This analysis underlines how Herrera articulates a poetics of precariousness and violence to draw a map of desolation and despair recognizable through the cardinal points of death, fear, corruption and an agonizing will to survive. In this unnamed universe the characters' bodies are subject to violence from the State and from criminals.

병원 내에서 응급구조사의 심폐소생술에 대한 교육 실태에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Actual State of Instruction for Emergency Medical Technician(EMT) in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(CPR) in Hospitals)

  • 박상섭;김진우;김광석;이창희
    • 한국응급구조학회지
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.129-138
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    • 2007
  • Purpose : This is a study on the actual state of instructing in cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) in hospitals, so lays its purpose on providing basic materials for instructing in CPR by understanding the actual state of instruction in CPR for paramedics or first aide persons in hospitals. Result : 1. As a result of examining the actual state of instruction in CPR operation during the past 3 months, 89.3% of the subjects answered that they receive regular instruction. 2. As the number of CPR instruction during one year, the majority of them, 96.0% answered that they have instruction more than one time a year. 3. As answers to their desired first-aid instruction to receive by allowing duplicated responses with 4 items, instruction in CPR and respiratory obstruction for adults was 18.2% occupying the highest proportion followed by instruction in first-aide treatment for traumas with 17.7% and in how to use the AED with 16.3%. Suggestion : First, it is thought that instruction in CPR should be conducted on a continuous basis and the number of instruction should increase. Second, one should provide first-aide persons with proper instruction in CPR operation by developing time tables and protocols for instructional programs, and also make it possible that they can learn various skills by increasing the number of instruction.

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음악 감상을 통한 음악중재가 응급실 간호사의 불안에 미치는 효과 (The Effect of Music Intervention on Emergency Room Nurse Anxiety through Music Appreciation)

  • 정민영;정여정
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2009년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.1111-1117
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    • 2009
  • 응급의료의 수요와 요구의 급증으로 인해 더욱 혼잡한 환경과 폭력, 의료분쟁에 노출되어 있는 응급실 간호사는 누구나 불안을 경험한다. 이러한 불안은 부정적 생리 반응을 일으켜 직무수행도와 직무만족도를 저하시키는 중요한 요인이 되고 있으므로 응급실 간호사들의 불안을 완화시켜주기 위한 중재 환경이 절실히 필요하다. 본 논문은 음악 감상을 통한 음악 중재가 응급실 간호사들의 불안에 미치는 효과를 개선시키는 것을 보인 것이다. 음악으로는 대표적인 성악곡을 선택하였으며, 응급실 간호사의 불안과 활력징후에 미치는 음악 효과를 측정하기 위하여 불안 측정 도구로는 SAI(State Anxiety Inventory)를 활용하였다. 실험을 통해 성악을 통한 음악중재가 응급실 간호사의 불안을 감소시키고 활력징후를 안정화시킨다는 결과를 얻었다.

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