Please describe any experience you have had with Emergency response and Emergency planning.

 

Regarding emergency management, I can describe the event of an accident involving 2 cars, car 1 with 3 occupants, an adult man, an adult woman and a child of approximately one year, car 2 with an adult in a drunken state.

The patients were seen in the first call by the ambulance, which after individual assessment determined that the driver of car 2 and the passenger of car 1 had the most serious injuries and required urgent transfer, the other 2 passengers were in acceptable condition and they had to be evaluated later.

At the hospital, the emergency call was received in which a resuscitation unit was requested for 2 patients, the corresponding process of trauma A, B, C, D, E was carried out and individual needs were corrected, determining that the occupant of the Car 1 had a closed chest trauma with pulmonary contusion and car driver 2 with a cerebral epidural hemorrhage type injury, both were referred by a respective team of surgeons for their interventions and subsequently received follow-up in the intensive care unit where they recovered.

In the emergency unit the actions described by the paramedics, the process of caring for the polytraumatized patient, the reports given to the family members, as well as the respective transfers were recorded.

As a teaching of this scenario, it is important to inform the hospital in advance about the care of any catastrophe because it avoids errors such as lack of ready supplies or insufficient staff for care, which improves the quality of the service, as well as giving priority to the attention and then to fill out the necessary documents, keeping a clear and orderly outline of each procedure to later write it, as well as having each person from the emergency team, this will help to maintain good communication and effective evidence-based processes.