Blood Establishments and Hospital Transfusion Services in South Asia - Disaster and Emergency Preparedness | Chapter 10 | New Visions in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 1

The archetype of a hazard, disaster and humanitarian emergency is in the biblical myth of Adam and Eve. Disasters and emergencies do happen all over the world, both natural and man-made or both. Since 1970, Asia and the Pacific have accounted for 57% of global fatalities from disasters and 87 per cent of the global population that has been affected by natural hazards.

It is important to do a gap analysis and a risk assessment before creating a disaster and emergency preparedness plan at the national, regional and local levels to anticipate such situations. Equally important is to decide in advance what to do and how to react to such a situation in order to restore the ‘business as usual’. The blood system is an integral part of the healthcare system and should be ready to act when necessary – donor mobilization, triage, personnel, stock management and distribution. The hospital should be prepared and anticipate introducing priority setting in patient care, stock management, restricted transfusion practice and above all communication.

The article provides a list of recommendations to prepare for such expected and unexpected disaster situations to mitigate as much as possible the deleterious consequences. The study concluded that it is important to have a disaster or emergency preparedness plan and a contingency or response and recovery plan in place with reliable collaboration and communication networks that can be activated instantaneously and effectively.

Author(s) Details:

Cees Th. Smit Sibinga,
IQM Consulting and University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

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For Assessments of Risks and Damages at Nuclear Power Plants (NPP): A Statistic Method Approach | Chapter 2 | Fundamental Research and Application of Physical Science Vol. 9

 This affiliate discuss about detail of action Methods for Assessments of Risks and Damages at Nuclear Power Plants. Given the rapid expansion of risk evaluation on many fronts, one grant permission ask whether risk appraisal really offers entity new as a scientific answer to new demands created by technology, or either it is only a short-term craze, something old in a new pretense which will quickly disappear. The joined treats under NPP exploitation are also increasing as a result of many artificial and natural circumstances, containing serving as aims for potential targeted radical assaults. For any NPP, accurate evaluations of the mixed risks and damages are required continual, including during the preparation, construction, and movement phases of allure intricately integrated emergency administration system. Here we try to resolve some possible means of NPP risk assessments. Early we foresaw the irradiation doses and agreed risks for population under implementation of Russian Federal Program:" Delineation of a change administration process institutionalizes the actions of appendages of NPP professional staff in making administrative changes that impact the various sources of risk. Development of Russian nuclear energy industrial complex on 2007-2020 age at 10 homeland NPP, that operated in rational non disasters regimes all the while two last decades. But such dossier are absent for NPP, that have been or will be under non prognostic dangers. Only after NPP accidents can the necessary information, incompletely or in full, be assembled. When NPP are placed in few risky conflict zones with extreme levels of potential terrorism dangers, they are subject to intensely negative organic reactions (temblors, tsunamis, etc.) as well as affected ones. Here the using of classic designs of expertise risk NPP appraisals are not correct and often impossible by any means. Some needed having a theme data concede possibility be obtained from primary in essence computer tests of individual NPP accompanying imitation of possible accidents. It allows to plan the conduct for NPP operators and distinguished services under serious NPP accidents or may search out prevent them by any means. Utilization of mixed oxides of uranium and plutonium (MOX fuel) in particularly design reactors is considered individual of the promising directions for further growth of nuclear manufacturing, let alone the challenge of peaceful exercise of the stock of military plutonium.

Author(s) Details:

Alexander Valyaev  ,
Division of Ecological Safety and Radiation Risk, Nuclear Safety Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Gurgen Aleksanyan,
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.

Alexey Valyaev,
Commercial Development and Industry Partnerships, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Oleg Arkhipkin,
Spetslabpribor A, LLP, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Assessment of Patients’ Profile at the Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS) after a Nightclub Disaster in the Region of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil | Chapter 13 | New Advances in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 8

 This branch verify the characterization of patients assisted in a Psychosocial Care Center subsequently a disaster at a bar in the region of Santa Maria, RS. One of the main disasters that happen in Brazil was the fire in a nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in January 2013, which demanded the lives of 242 young people whose futures were cut awfully short and left innumerable others fighting harrowing physical and subjective afflictions in its occurrence, stands as one of the the most virulent such disasters to strike the country in recent thought. Santa Maria disaster accompanying previous occurrences worldwide draw our consideration to effective preventive measures, that can only be achieved through constitution and strict administration. Although many disaster plan optimizations maybe implemented and refined following the Santa Maria trouble, we believe that statute toward prevention is the sole-most important lesson we have together learned. The occurrence, known in the radio as the “fire at the KISS bar”, caused an increase in the number of cases of various pathologies, principally post-traumatic stress disorder.This work is a explanatory cross-sectional epidemiological study as well a narrative review of the literature. The descriptors “psychosocial support”, “psychosocial aid”, “psychosocial reaction”, “mental healthcare” added to “trouble” were used.After 2014, 763 records of care supported by the Acolhe-Saúde psychosocial care duty were identified. The adulthood (67.3%) occurred in the first two months after the trouble (01/28/13-03/28/13). In Santa Maria's psychosocial care service, arrangement was given to hearing and welcoming things. Only in a few cases was the patient referred to a psychotherapist for a more specific amount, in which the need for medicine of psychotropic drugs was considered. It is likely to track the post-accident crisis position, evaluate the well-being of impacted groups, and pinpoint issues provoked by a disaster concerning this magnitude by examining this demand.

Author(s) Details:

Cristianne Confessor Castilho Lopes,
University of Joinville Region, Joinville, SC, Brazil.

Youssef Elias Ammar,
University of Southern Santa Catarina, Tubarão, SC, Brazil.

Rodayne Khouri Nascimento,
Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Tulio Gamio Dias,
USP School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

José Francisco Dalcin,
Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Isabella Cunha Barbosa,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil.

Patrícia Cota Lima,
Federal University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.

Adriano Almada Militz,
Franciscan University, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Natalia Gurgel do Carmo, 

Alto Vale do Rio do Peixe University, Caçador, SC, Brazil.

Jéssica Lorayne Souza Silva,

Alto Vale do Rio do Peixe University, Caçador, SC, Brazil.

Fábio Herget Pitanga,                                                                                                                                  Alto Vale do Rio do Peixe University, Caçador, SC, Brazil.

Ana Lang Botticelli, 

Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Ricardo Wagner Botticelli,

 Interamerican Open University, Rosario, Argentina.

Bruno Alves Menezes de Lima,

 Unigranrio University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Renato Afonso Salgado,

 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

Vinicius Soriano de Brito,

 Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bruno Rossato Schuster,

 Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Guilherme Pinho Faria Machado,

Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Miriam Sabino de Oliveira Pereira,

Vale do Sapucaí University, Pouso Alegre, MG, Brazil.

Isabela Petrone Arifa,

Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Daniella Cabral de Freitas,

 Santo Amaro University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Marivane Lemos, 

Contestado University, Concordia, SC, Brazil.

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Essentials of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance for Health Care Workers | Book Publisher International

 The advancement of technology has brought about dynamic changes throughout the world, as well as new perils that have resulted in natural disasters. Disasters are a common occurrence in communities, and they put a country's resilience and capacity to cope to the test. With the present global recession brought on by the influenza pandemic and the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, catastrophic chaos is only going to get worse. Human misery will continue to be exacerbated by the catastrophe complex (a tragedy on top of another disaster).

This book is intended to provide health workers with information aimed at detecting early warning signals of catastrophes, as well as preventing and mitigating disasters. The book is the result of the author's many years of educating medical students at Egerton University. The other has recommended using a catastrophe cycle model to address dangers before a disaster strikes. Being proactive in mitigating dangers before a calamity hits is more cost-effective.

There are chapters in the book. Natural catastrophes, human-caused disasters, and technology disasters form the foundation of the wide category. Every form of calamity is investigated. The eight phases of disaster are divided into eight categories.

Climate change is now a worldwide crisis that has to be declared. Climate change has put several countries on the verge of starvation. New and emerging illnesses are putting further strain on already overcrowded health systems, particularly in poor nations. The author thinks that this book will be beneficial to a variety of health professionals.

Author(s) Details:

David K. Njeru
Department of Clinical Medicine, Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya.

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A Detailed Study on the Effects of Corona | Chapter 10 | Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 9

 The Covid-19 crisis that we are witnessing right now has been a significant turning point in the lives of many of us, but it will definitely bring a drastic change in our lives. Through adaptation and harmony, we will live well enough that we can alter the way we interact with the same effect on us. But who's responsible for a case like that? Human beings are the key. And there is no need for one to provide a research paper on this. We have to handle nature better if we want a better life. That is Corona's message to us as Corona is a part of nature as well. Some of these behavioural improvements needed to conserve nature and the need to take immediate action to correct the wrongs done to nature are illustrated in the current article, otherwise a tiny creature such as a virus will bring the world to a standstill.

Author(s) Details

Dr. Shobha Misra
Department of Community Medicine at P D U Medical College, Rajkot, India.

Bhakti Sharma

Zydus Medical College, Dahod, India.

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