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A comprehensive approach of emergency medical services providers to a transport of a patient suffering from a highly contagious disease
MACH, Rostislav
In the thesis "Comprehensive approach of emergency medical services provider to a highly-contagious patient transportation" we concentrated on nursing care and aspects of transportation administered by operating paramedics, all in cases that public health authorities suspect to be related to a highly - contagious disease and transportation in isolated transportation vehicle is mandated. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the key concepts of highly - contagious disease, it describes individual causal agents of contagious diseases and their ways of transmission to humans. For description of contagious diseases were chosen those with high morbidity, lethality and interpersonal transmission. We mention the danger of biological agents misuse, ways of protection against contagious diseases and types of decontamination procedures. We describe different means of personal protection used by biohazard team members and even environmental factors affecting the work of paramedics using personal protective agents. Further on, we bring to attention legal aspects and inner policies related to aforementioned issues including analysis of procedure logistics of emergency services teams dealing with emergencies with suspicion of highly - contagious disease. Research in practical part of the thesis concentrates on aims related to optimizing nursing care for patients suspected of suffering from a highly - contagious disease, when securing them in the transportation vehicle, furthermore, we examine the impact of personal protective agents used by paramedics when transporting the patient, and we also analyze environmental factors inside the ambulance vehicle and isolated personal transportation vehicle. All of these aims were researched with the help of planned experiments and the resulting findings are based on the outcomes of these experiments.
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Bioterorism and problems with mass media in population awarness.
VENKRBCOVÁ, Klára
Bioterrorism is a deliberate abuse of bilogical agents with a view to bring on a human or animal illness, it can have military, religious or political connection. Biological weapons number among mass destruction weapons and their advantage is in their ineffectiveness on dead matter and ability to cause high mortality. Biological weapons are very various and budget-priced. Just a small amount can kill many people or contaminate a vast area for a long time, it all depends on qualities of the used biological agent. Biological agent can be spread in several ways, namely by aerosol inhalation, in an alimentary way otherwise by taking of with groceries, by exterior contamination by means of objects or linen and by means of vector (medium {--} insects) by blood suction. The aspiration of my work was to state the awareness level of inhabitants and I asume it was carried out. The first hypothesis {\clqq}General awareness level about bioterrorism is mininal`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted, fifty percent of the answers confirmed the thesis but fifty percent did not. The second hypothesis {\clqq}Awareness and interest in bioterrorism fall with the rising age.`` This was confirmed. The third hypothesis {\clqq}Media are exaggeratedly interested in this topic. This hypothesis wasn{\crq}t confirmed. The fourth hypothesis {\clqq}The Czech Republic is according to informants´ views ready for a bioterrorist attack but it isn{\crq}t imminent.`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted, as well as the first hypothesis it was confirmed from 50 % and confuted from 50 % . The fifth hypothesis {\clqq} People look for special information on bioterrorism most ofen in special literature and they get further information most ofen through the medium of television.`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted. The sixth hypothesis {\clqq}The informants connect the planned build- up of the American counter rocket radar with the menace of bioterrorism.`` It was confuted.
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