Australasian Journal of Paramedicine最新文献

{"title":"Book Review: ‘Pediatric First Aid for Caregivers and Teachers’","authors":"Joanna Timms","doi":"10.33151/ajp.3.4.346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.3.4.346","url":null,"abstract":"The topic outlines follow sound educational principles and include an objectives list, content that provides enough information without becoming to technical, a post test and a set of term definitions. The topics are varied enough to ensure major pediatric illness and injury is covered. The set up and flow of the topics is logical and easy to follow. The text presents useful descriptors for ‘eight-step’ pediatric first aid. This tool is the foundation assessment tool and is used in every chapter and acts to ensure a sensible, systematic approach to all possible scenarios. Not only does it include assessment of the ill child, but it ensures scene safety, care of other children and post situation follow – up and debrief.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69522204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: ‘Need to know: Meningitis’. Routh, Kristina (2004). London, Heinemann Library, Harcourt Education Ltd","authors":"Karen R. Drescher","doi":"10.33151/ajp.3.1.313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.3.1.313","url":null,"abstract":"Meningitis provides a basic and simple understanding of the history of the disease, who is most at risk and why, causes and types of the disease (bacterial and viral), and how the disease is spread. The book uses case studies to illustrate the identification of meningitis, co-morbid conditions, and diagnostic patterns. Signs and symptoms are described in detail along with the progression and natural history of the disease with emphasis on the need for rapid identification, diagnosis, and intervention. Vaccination options (availability for types of meningitis and the development of future vaccines) are outlined along with strategies and treatments (e.g. prophylactic administration) for the prevention of the spread of the disease. Decreasing the risk of contracting the disease in easily implemented strategies for groups, families and individuals, for example personal hygiene strategies, pet handling, early identification of symptoms for prompt emergency treatment, and receiving the vaccinations currently available are simply addressed. Explanations of the expected actions and events on admission to hospital and what to expect after the illness are also addressed. The emotional effects as well as the psychological effects are highlighted and a section on living with the consequences of the disease gives the reader an understanding from a personal empathetic perspective.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: ‘Infection Control in the Community’","authors":"R. Shaban","doi":"10.33151/AJP.3.1.315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.3.1.315","url":null,"abstract":"‘Infection Control in the Community’ by Lawrence and May, was written in response to years of sustained enquiries about infection control from individuals and organisations in community settings. The text boasts contributions from 18 authors, and presents a comprehensive review of issues related to infection control in community settings. With the exception of one, all contributing authors are nurses with a wide and varied experience base and national and international reputation for expertise in their field.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"43 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: ‘The Australian Immunisation Handbook 8th Edition’","authors":"R. Shaban, E. Forster","doi":"10.33151/ajp.3.1.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.3.1.314","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian Immunisation Handbook, produced by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, is Australia’s leading definitive and authoritative resource for immunisation and vaccination. The resource is prepared by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, which has representatives from an impressive yet diverse array of stakeholders, including clinicians, scientists, consumer representatives, and community groups.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: ‘Emergency First Responder – Making the Difference’","authors":"W. Thurston","doi":"10.33151/ajp.3.3.332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.3.3.332","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency First Responder – Making the Difference by Chapleau has been written with the aim of providing community first responders with an authoritative and specialised resource. It boasts contributions from all over the United States, and appears to including all skills levels of paramedical and medical specialists. Written with a distinct teamwork focus, it is designed to follow USA national standards for the training of first responders.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: ‘Mosby's Emt – Basic Textbook’","authors":"Alaine Green","doi":"10.33151/ajp.3.3.333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.3.3.333","url":null,"abstract":"Pre-hospital care is traditionally a field closely aligned with medical practice, and to date there has been a regretfully small proportion of educational works focusing specifically on this unique environment and the challenges it can present to an EMT or paramedic. Written by staff from the Emergency Medicine Program at the University of Pittsburgh, this text is designed to bridge the gap between traditional medical knowledge such as anatomy and physiology and the distinctive problems that arise only in the pre-hospital care environment.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International Standards and Guidelines on Education and Training for the Multi-disciplinary Health Response to Major Events that Threaten the Health Status of a Community*","authors":"G. Seynaeve, Frank Archer, Judith Fisher, Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Alison Rowlands, Phillip Sellwood, Karel Vandevelde, A. Zigoura","doi":"10.1017/S1049023X0002392X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X0002392X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 13th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, convened in Melbourne, Australia in May 2003, requested the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) to lead the development of “International Standards and Guidelines on Education and Training for “Disaster Medicine”. This Paper has been developed by a Working Group of the WADEM Education Committee (“the Working Group”) in response to that request from the international “Disaster Medicine” and emergency health community. The main focus of the Working Group is to develop standards and guidelines for education and training in the multi-disciplinary health response to major events that threaten the health status of a community. The contemporary view is that of a multi-disciplinary health response to major events which threaten the health status of a community, including the prevention and mitigation of future events, and taking account of the broader context in which these events occur. It is the vision of the Working Group that evidence-based standards and guidelines for education and training must be developed in a broad sense, for all members of the healthcare community. Rather than purely describing isolated performance indicators, the Working Group agreed that priority be given to explaining the general approach, presenting the conceptual framework, clarifying important principles, and describing the educational needs and training requirements for situations for which there exist a major threat to the health status of a community. It is not the intent to produce an updated educational curriculum for special courses in “Disaster Medicine” by listing levels of theoretical knowledge and clinical skills required for medical doctors, nurses, and paramedics. Nor, does the Working Group think it is useful to repeat requirements and learning outcomes that are part of the normal basic education and training for the various health professionals. The purpose of this Issues Paper is to present an initial summary of current issues relating to an international perspective of “Disaster Medicine” education and training. This summary has been prepared following discussions within the Working Group of the WADEM Education Committee. The paper aims to stimulate debate and form the basis of further of discussion at an international meeting scheduled to be held in Brussels (Belgium) on 29–31 October 2004. The Working Group has structured this Issues Paper into five parts and has identified several key issues for discussion. Part 1: Understanding the contemporary interpretation of the multi-disciplinary health response to major events that threaten the health status of a community Issue 1: Definitions and terminology in “Disaster Medicine”; Issue 2: Getting to grips with the contemporary concepts and international trends in “Disaster Medicine”; and, Issue 3: Valuing personal attributes in “Disaster Medicine” practitioners. Part 2: Developing an underlying scientific framework f","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"19 1","pages":"s17 - s24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57513339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National Academies of Emergency Dispatch 2004 Navigator Conference","authors":"P. Hamilton","doi":"10.33151/AJP.2.1.256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.2.1.256","url":null,"abstract":"The National Academies of Emergency Dispatch (NAED), an organization promoting safe and effective emergency dispatch services worldwide, has held its annual NAVIGATOR conference in May of this year in Las Vegas. With over 1000 registrants, the conference provides an effective forum for emergency service communications staff to meet and learn from some of the most experienced people in their fields","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Standards and Standardization in Paramedic Protocols","authors":"Gaevan Anantharaman","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.1.258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.1.258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Best BETs [Best Evidence Topics]: Website Review","authors":"K. Robinson","doi":"10.33151/AJP.2.1.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.2.1.265","url":null,"abstract":"What is BestBETSs? Best BETs is a medical information database initially developed by the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary in the UK; “to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. BETs take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians to make the best of what there is”. 1","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}