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Decontamination of Persons at Medical Facilites during CBR Events
Magulová, Eva ; Urbánek, Pavel (referee) ; Rosická, Zdena (advisor)
The aim of this work is the effort to bring new insight into the possibility of decontamination in healthcare facilities. In the first part are briefly explained keywords. The second part is a brief preview of the sarin attack in the Tokyo metro and the cooperation of Japanese rescue system in this event. It is followed by estimated procedure of integrated rescue system of the Czech Republic at the same event in the Czech Republic. Then is a proposal of some problems arising from improvised decontamination in the unequipped hospital and a proposal for the possible course of decontamination in a medical device.
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Protect of Population and Biological Weapons
TUREČKOVÁ, Lucie
The bachelor thesis offers an insight into the issue of biological weapons. It is divided into several parts. The theoretical part describes the general characteristics of biological weapons. Furthermore, the history of the development of biological weapons is briefly mentioned, important milestones in this area are added, such as vaccine development. The history is followed by a description of the individual biological agents, the description of the biological agent, its effects on the organism and its inclusion in the group. Furthermore, the thesis describes the way of spreading biological agents and the ways of entry of biological agents into the body. The next chapter is devoted to international and Czech legislation governing the use of biological weapons. The last chapters are devoted to protection against biological agents, decontamination and detection and identification of biological agents. The next part, i.e. empirical, defines the methods and objectives of own research and the results that are graphically processed for clarity. Subsequently, the results are described in the discussion. The main aim of this thesis was to find out whether students of the business academy and secondary vocational school Kaplice have sufficient knowledge in the field of biological weapons. Part of this goal was also to answer the research questions: What is the knowledge of the protection of the population in the field of biological weapons and the readiness for attack by biological weapons in the students of these schools in Kaplice? Do they have a proper level of knowledge of the protection of the population in the field of the biological weapons? A questionnaire survey was used to ensure this information. Altogether 81 students participated in the survey. Research has revealed that students' knowledge of biological weapons is low, specifically in the field of protection from biological weapon attack and in biological field. Low knowledge was also in the basic characteristics of biological weapons, where complementary questions are included such as what the term epidemic means. Therefore, a measure has been proposed that can deepen knowledge in this area.
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Decontamination of Persons at Medical Facilites during CBR Events
Magulová, Eva ; Urbánek, Pavel (referee) ; Rosická, Zdena (advisor)
The aim of this work is the effort to bring new insight into the possibility of decontamination in healthcare facilities. In the first part are briefly explained keywords. The second part is a brief preview of the sarin attack in the Tokyo metro and the cooperation of Japanese rescue system in this event. It is followed by estimated procedure of integrated rescue system of the Czech Republic at the same event in the Czech Republic. Then is a proposal of some problems arising from improvised decontamination in the unequipped hospital and a proposal for the possible course of decontamination in a medical device.
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Comparison of anti biological protection of the CR with selected EU countries
SOUKUPOVÁ, Eva
Comparison of anti biological protection of the CR with selected EU countries The system of application of hygienic-epidemiological measures within the Czech Republic is based on Act No. 258/2000 Col. on public health protection and on modification of some related acts defining the system of the public health protection bodies and on Directive No. 440/2000 Sb. stipulating the conditions of prevention of occurrence and transmission of infectious diseases and hygienic requirements for operation of healthcare facilities. The individual tasks given to the public health protection bodies as well as to the Integrated Rescue System units may sometimes be misunderstood. These tasks must be known so as the set goals can be performed and thorough hygienic and epidemiological measures can be ensured. Each state has its own biological security system, which very often differs from that of the Czech Republic. To be able to ensure civil protection in the Czech Republic it is necessary to know the legislation provision or the system of biological agent detection in neighbouring countries, i.e. in Slovakia, in Germany, in Austria and in Poland, to make the cross-border cooperation more effective and reliable. The thesis compares the methods of anti-biological protection in the Czech Republic and in the neighbouring states. The thesis also provides information on the differences in legislation and in anti-biological protection application, from both, the basic as well as professional points of view. Upon these comparisons and upon set criteria a conclusion has been drawn that the Czech Republic is ready to cope with an attack by means of B-agents and that some country has more elaborated protection.
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The way of alternative spread of the biological agents in population.
JIRKA, Martin
This bachelor thesis describes the ways of alternative spread of the biological agents in population. It is focused on the main precursors, which increase the risk of such use. One of the precursors is the availability of biological agents which have the potential to be exploited as a biological weapon. Majority hazardous agents are found freely in nature and could be obtained without much effort. The ability to effectively extend the dangerous pathogens is another important aspect. Among the main ways of the spread, is a form of inhalation, ingestion or inoculation, including spread of biological agents via vehicles and vectors. The ability to threaten the life and health in these ways of spreading agents is evaluated. Last precursor represented an alternative way to spread the biological agents. There are many ways how to spread dangerous germs. The thesis is focused on alternative ways, using of them and devices it´s possible to achieve efficient transfer of biological agents and achieve high damage to health of population. Furthermore, the fact is mentioned that biological agents were previously abused for attack and therefore can´t be trusted that this situation no longer occurs. And because terrorism is recently more dangerous and more cold-blooded, the problems of this topic are also described. At the conclusion thesis tries to find of the all available pathogens, which the aggressor could easily use and evaluates the way of spread the selected pathogen, which would be the most dangerous for the population from the health point of view, including its alternatives. The thesis is handled in the form of a literature search of Czech and foreign literature and the results are processed by the brainwriting method.
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Botulotoxin: dangerous poison or useful remedy?
HAMERNÍKOVÁ, Magdalena
ABSTRACT Botulotoxin: dangerous poison or useful remedy? Regarding present awareness of biological agents and the possibilities for terrorist groups several possible sources, which are most likely to be abused in biological weapons and subsequent spread of these diseases (sources) in population have been addressed, botulotoxin is one of them. Poisoning with botulotoxin (botulism) is a possible variant of bio-terrorist attack, which is considered real at present.. Botulotoxin is used in cosmetics, particularly for smoothening wrinkles, and is also applied in medicine. The aim of my thesis was to gather summarized information on botulotoxin and the possibilities of its abuse as poison for terrorist attack, to enlighten its availability, the way of use by terrorist, a scenario of such an attack, the clinical progress of poisoning, possible mortalities and preventive measures minimizing them, the issues of using botulotoxin as medicine in present health care and evaluation the possible consequent risks, and evaluation of awareness of botulotoxin and bio-terrorism in general among general public and professionals. H1: Professionals consider botulotoxin one of the poisons most likely to be used as an instrument of bio-terrorism and has been high attention paid to its study. H2: General public more perceive botulotoxin as cosmetic preparation for smoothening wrinkles in a face and it has only a few informations of its terrorist abuse. Verification of the first hypothesis was performed at theoretical level by studying professional literature its critical assessment and consultation with experts. All available publications on botulotoxin and its relation to bio-terrorism of the last ten years were collected, and the reasons why botulotoxin is considered to be a suitable instrument of bio-terrorism as well as a suitable instrument in medicine and cosmetics. Verification of the second hypothesis was performed by investigation in the form of a questionnaire research. A questionnaire enabling to find out awareness of botulotoxin and bio-terrorism in general among the public was compiled. The research was conducted among the general public and among professionals, represented by members of the Integrated Rescue System in České Budějovice. The questionnaire consists of 18 questions. The samples of both the groups include 100 respondents, stratified selection of whom was performed upon consultation with an expert. Questionnaire evaluation was performed in 2 spheres. The first sphere deals with identification data and the second with general awareness. The aim of this work was to find out what the awareness of botulotoxin and bio-terrorism in general the general public and professionals was like. Finally I analysed the research results and the formulated hypotheses The research results have confirmed my hypotheses. They show that the examined general public sample and the sample of professionals could not have been chosen from an identical outside group, the difference between them is statistically significant. Professionals are statistically significantly better aware of botulotoxin features than the general public. This thesis represent an information source for those interested in these issues, particularly for the Integrated Rescue System units.
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