Is the Continuity between the Actions of the First Responders and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Personnel Positively Or Negatively Impacting Patients Recovering from Heart Attack?

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ABSTRACT

The study is about the actions of the first responders and emergency medical technician (EMT) personnel positively or negatively impacting patients recovering from heart attack. The research is based on secondary data collection. The data is extracted from journals, articles and books. Secondary research describes information gathered through literature, publications, broadcast media, and other nonhuman sources. This type of research does not involve human subjects. The research approach used is qualitative. Qualitative research is much more subjective than quantitative research and uses very different methods of collecting information which could be both primary and secondary. As already mentioned, this study chooses the secondary method. Experienced responders have learned that healthy family connections and a healthy collegial network are important factors in coping with severe occupational stressors. Engaging in physically healthy habits and in moral and ethical activities is also essential. Most of these responders have learned to take care of their physical, social and ethical parts of their personalities from experience and to seek healthy partner relationships. The use of humor is valued in a brotherhood sense. In this study, subjects are found to highly value social relationships, in particular relationships. Social relationships are essential for safety and self efficacy. Satisfying relationships with each other for support on a continual and on an informal basis could be emphasized within the responder community through seminars on going or in the academies. They intentionally reached out and sought self enriching relationships from the start. The advent of traumatic events only further encouraged this pursuit of supportive relationships.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTII

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Introduction1

Theoretical framework1

Research aim and objective2

Research questions2

Hypothesis3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVEW4

Critical events4

Proximity5

Family support6

Organizational implications7

Kinship Network9

Coping Strategies9

Trust11

Constancy of Physical Challenges12

Resiliency13

Individual personality traits15

Dissociative reactions16

Long term effect16

Implications for first responder and emergency medical technicians17

Stress20

Uncertainity and first responder21

Cross border cooperation26

EMD system27

Summary28

REFERENCES30CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

First responder and emergency medical technicians personnel are the most vital people regarding the preparation, recovery and response in most of the cases regarding the incidents, emergencies and disasters. In order to get the extreme quality care that is highly efficient, it is necessary for all the members of the team to work together and mutually support each other. It will help patients. Various measures of damages in emergency situation have been proposed, for instance time rate, fatal accident frequency rate, loss of life expectancy, safety degree, fair million-dollar-policy annual premium, risk age, tolerance risk, benefits, and total life or periods of health lost (Bacharach 2007).

In the information systems area, typically four factors, such as decision-making performance, user satisfaction, system usage time, and system usage report volume have been discussed. Several attempts have been made to measure user information satisfaction as a surrogate for the overall effectiveness of information systems in the organization. The perceived task performance, in addition, was proposed as a measurement of performance. Performance measurement depends on the subject to be evaluated. Performance can be captured by the ...