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Newborn resuscitation
Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal (2011) 14S, S1—S44
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Abstracts 9th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, 28 September—1 October, 2011 Adelaide, Australia How does a disaster work? Paul Arbon Torrens Research Institute & Flinders University, Australia Keywords: Disasters; Evaluation E-mail address: paul.arbon@flinders.edu.au. This paper presents a model, based on the Utstein Guidelines for Disaster Evaluation and Research of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, for understanding the way in which the interactions between hazards, risk and resilience work to prevent or mitigate the impact of Disaster. Understanding how threats transform into the events that we define as disasters can assist in preparing for and mitigation of the damage that disaster can cause. The development of absorbing capacity to strengthen communities and reduce the level of damage to basic community functions and strategies to bolster buffering capacity in order that the damage to a community has less impact on people and essential community services are fundamental aspects of disaster planning and preparedness. These concepts will be utilised to provide a model for understanding how disasters work.
These are some of the scenarios where newborn resuscitation may be required in the ED. A woman has delivered at home and been brought in by ambulance or delivered en-route to hospital and her baby has failed to establish respirations. A women presents with a concealed/unknown pregnancy and delivers in your ED or a delivery may occur as a result of other illness/injury (MVA). How would you manage the resuscitation of a newborn baby? 1—10% hospital births require some resuscitation, with 50% of these resuscitations being unexpected. These are women who have been managed by midwives in hospital. However very few require ventilation and it is very unusual to need cardiac compression. Babies born under adverse circumstances without midwifery care may be at a higher risk of requiring resuscitation. It is important to have an understanding of newly born resuscitation This presentation will give a condensed synopsis of how to familiarise and check resuscitation equipment and how to perform newly born resuscitation. The key to extra-uterine life is the FIRST BREATH. doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.005
doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.004
Once bitten, twice shy: How consistent is the management of snake bite victims in Australian emergency departments?
Newborn resuscitation
Victoria Kain ∗ , Andrew Jesberg
Julie Bernardo
The University of Queensland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, 11 Salisbury Rd, Ipswich, Qld. 4305, Australia Keywords: Envenomation; Snakebite; Clinical protocols; Evidence based practice
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Flinders Medical Centre, Australia Working in the emergency department (ED) presents a huge variety of clinical conditions to recognise and manage, however the majority of these are related to adults and children.
1574-6267/$ — see front matter doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.003
Background: There are approximately 3000 snakebite presentations to emergency departments in Australia each year; of these, almost 500 patients will require anti-venom treatment. The complexities of clinical symptoms can
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/aenj
Abstracts 9th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, 28 September—1 October, 2011 Adelaide, Australia How does a disaster work? Paul Arbon Torrens Research Institute & Flinders University, Australia Keywords: Disasters; Evaluation E-mail address: paul.arbon@flinders.edu.au. This paper presents a model, based on the Utstein Guidelines for Disaster Evaluation and Research of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, for understanding the way in which the interactions between hazards, risk and resilience work to prevent or mitigate the impact of Disaster. Understanding how threats transform into the events that we define as disasters can assist in preparing for and mitigation of the damage that disaster can cause. The development of absorbing capacity to strengthen communities and reduce the level of damage to basic community functions and strategies to bolster buffering capacity in order that the damage to a community has less impact on people and essential community services are fundamental aspects of disaster planning and preparedness. These concepts will be utilised to provide a model for understanding how disasters work.
These are some of the scenarios where newborn resuscitation may be required in the ED. A woman has delivered at home and been brought in by ambulance or delivered en-route to hospital and her baby has failed to establish respirations. A women presents with a concealed/unknown pregnancy and delivers in your ED or a delivery may occur as a result of other illness/injury (MVA). How would you manage the resuscitation of a newborn baby? 1—10% hospital births require some resuscitation, with 50% of these resuscitations being unexpected. These are women who have been managed by midwives in hospital. However very few require ventilation and it is very unusual to need cardiac compression. Babies born under adverse circumstances without midwifery care may be at a higher risk of requiring resuscitation. It is important to have an understanding of newly born resuscitation This presentation will give a condensed synopsis of how to familiarise and check resuscitation equipment and how to perform newly born resuscitation. The key to extra-uterine life is the FIRST BREATH. doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.005
doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.004
Once bitten, twice shy: How consistent is the management of snake bite victims in Australian emergency departments?
Newborn resuscitation
Victoria Kain ∗ , Andrew Jesberg
Julie Bernardo
The University of Queensland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, 11 Salisbury Rd, Ipswich, Qld. 4305, Australia Keywords: Envenomation; Snakebite; Clinical protocols; Evidence based practice
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Flinders Medical Centre, Australia Working in the emergency department (ED) presents a huge variety of clinical conditions to recognise and manage, however the majority of these are related to adults and children.
1574-6267/$ — see front matter doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.003
Background: There are approximately 3000 snakebite presentations to emergency departments in Australia each year; of these, almost 500 patients will require anti-venom treatment. The complexities of clinical symptoms can