Supporting Showtime Responders As Well As Infirmary Staff Inward A Disaster
One expression of the healthcare continuum that should have to a greater extent than attending is back upwards for start out responders as well as infirmary staff inwards the ER as well as beyond. In a disaster situation, this involves complex processes inwards chaotic environments.
We’ve been studying this number as well as developing an innovative agency to operate IT scientific discipline systems to back upwards all involved personnel by:
- Deploying a "man-down" device that detects when a start out responder, such every bit a firefighter, is non responsive as well as needs assistance.
- Helping locate as well as extract victims from buildings inwards a agency that minimizes jeopardy to both the victims as well as the start out responders rescuing them.
- Guiding start out responders inwards selecting appropriate trauma centers past times mapping victim needs to facility capability.
- Giving timely feedback nearly each victim’s wellness profile as well as status to healthcare providers from start out regard through carry to the nearest trauma pump equipped to handgrip the victim.
- Monitoring the availability of resources (including personnel, beds, medications, equipment, etc.) inwards the handling facility as well as informing staff of shortages, then prescribed attention is delivered amongst minimal disruption.
- Alerting clinicians when a patient’s plan-of-care orders are non carried out inwards a timely manner, inwards companionship to assist avoid adverse events past times speeding excogitation of attention adjustments.
In a disaster, pandemic or terrorist attack, this organization supplies ongoing critical feedback that (a) facilitates coordination of attention betwixt start out responders, trauma pump staff as well as other infirmary personnel as well as (b) enables rapid reply when problems arise. It includes novel types of software systems that piece of job inwards tandem amongst a Personal Health Record (PHR), Electronic Health Record (EMR ) as well as Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) applications. It every bit good back upwards the Saint Francis University’s Center of Excellence for Remote as well as Medically Under-Served Areas (CERMUSA) ambulance of the future, which is capable of providing continuous vocalism as well as information transmission through a diversity of communications links, as well as has the mightiness to transmit as well as have alive video through a satellite video conferencing system.
I intend few would fence that nosotros should hold upwards doing everything possible to have as well as back upwards start out responders as well as ER staff for large scale crises.
We accept a document that shows how these technologies would hold upwards used inwards a disaster, pandemic, or terrorist attack. For a copy, delight contact me (Steve Beller) at sbeller@nhds.com