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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, Australiacaerpat
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How does a disaster work?
Paul Arbon
Torrens Research Institute & Flinders University, AustraliaKeywords: Disasters; Evaluation
E-mail address: [email protected].
This paper presents a model, based on the Utstein Guide-lines for Disaster Evaluation and Research of the WorldAssociation for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, for under-standing the way in which the interactions between hazards,risk and resilience work to prevent or mitigate the impactof Disaster. Understanding how threats transform into theevents that we define as disasters can assist in preparing forand mitigation of the damage that disaster can cause. Thedevelopment of absorbing capacity to strengthen communi-ties and reduce the level of damage to basic communityfunctions and strategies to bolster buffering capacity inorder that the damage to a community has less impact onpeople and essential community services are fundamentalaspects of disaster planning and preparedness. These con-cepts will be utilised to provide a model for understandinghow disasters work.
doi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.004
Newborn resuscitation
Julie Bernardo
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Flinders Medical Centre,Australia
Working in the emergency department (ED) presents a
huge variety of clinical conditions to recognise and man-age, however the majority of these are related to adultsand children.pyt
1574-6267/$ — see front matterdoi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.003
These are some of the scenarios where newborn resus-itation may be required in the ED. A woman has deliveredt home and been brought in by ambulance or deliveredn-route to hospital and her baby has failed to establishespirations. A women presents with a concealed/unknownregnancy and delivers in your ED or a delivery may occur asresult of other illness/injury (MVA). How would you manage
he resuscitation of a newborn baby?1—10% hospital births require some resuscitation, with
0% of these resuscitations being unexpected. These areomen who have been managed by midwives in hospital.owever very few require ventilation and it is very unusualo need cardiac compression. Babies born under adverseircumstances without midwifery care may be at a higherisk of requiring resuscitation. It is important to have annderstanding of newly born resuscitation
This presentation will give a condensed synopsis of howo familiarise and check resuscitation equipment and how toerform newly born resuscitation. The key to extra-uterineife is the FIRST BREATH.
oi:10.1016/j.aenj.2011.09.005
nce bitten, twice shy: How consistent is the man-gement of snake bite victims in Australian emergencyepartments?
ictoria Kain ∗, Andrew Jesberg
The University of Queensland, School of Nursing and Mid-ifery, 11 Salisbury Rd, Ipswich, Qld. 4305, Australiaeywords: Envenomation; Snakebite; Clinical protocols;vidence based practice
Background: There are approximately 3000 snakebiteresentations to emergency departments in Australia eachear; of these, almost 500 patients will require anti-venomreatment. The complexities of clinical symptoms can