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Appendix in back pocket / xi, 284 leaves : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (M.D.)--University of Adelaide, based on a study conducted in the Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 1973

The construction industry is known for its high accident rate which leads to numerous fatalities every year. Currently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires injury/illness recording forms to be completed only for injuries requiring medical treatment and fatalities. The assertion of this paper is that underlying problems can be best determined through the causes of first-aid injuries that have the potential to prevent serious injuries in the future. Therefore, by classifying and recording first-aid cases on project sites, the common trend type of injury can be followed and appropriate measures can be taken to eliminate hazards. The main objective of this research is to establish a comprehensive standardized database to record first-aid injury cases, injuries requiring medical treatment and fatalities all in one. The recording format described in this research will facilitate the analysis of the data in a more effective manner which can subsequently be used to develop pre-emptive measures to eliminate common causes for construction injuries. In order, to create the Form, 900 sets of injury data were obtained from an industrial construction firm and analyzed. These data provided a good indication of the classification system adopted by industries today. The proposed Injury and Illness Database/Form (I

The main aim of my diploma thesis was a didactical analysis of the theme First aid in the biological curriculum at secondary schools and creation of a project specializing on the first aid education. This project offers the teachers a way how to approach the first aid education. In the chapter Theoretical Background the problems of first aid in the biology curriculum and text books are mentioned. It also deals with the history of first aid and with educational methods appropriate for first aid education. This part focuses on various didactical methods used in the project, especially on the activating and the verbal ones. In the main part of my diploma thesis I am proposing a project consisting of four parts: theoretical preparation, training of first aid, training of first aid with the application of situational methods, a contest with a test. In the course of the project students should acquire the basic skills necessary for the right treatment of injuries and casualties. My thesis also includes appendices: a test, a completed test, graphs showing the rate of students{\crq} success in the test and photos taken during the realisation of the project.

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The aim of this thesis is to discover the level of theoretical knowledge of first aid with students of primary and secondary schools. I would like to also discover the efficiency of teaching the first aid at school so that the students can use the gained information in ther lives. I will find out the theoretical knowledge of first aid by using the quantitative research, questionaire. It is possible to propose the changes of teaching the first aid at schools based on gathered figures in order to teach the theoretical knowledge more effectively.

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Domestic robots developed to support human beings by performing daily tasks such as cleaning should also be able to help in emergencies by finding, analysing, and assisting persons in need of first aid. Here such a robot capable of performing some useful task related to first aid is referred to as a First Aid Mobile Robot (FAMR). One challenge which to the author's knowledge has not been solved is how such a FAMR can find a fallen person's pose within an environment, recognising locations of points of interest for first aid such as the mouth, nose, chin, chest and hands on a map. To overcome the challenge, a new approach is introduced based on leveraging a robot's capabilities (multiple sensors and mobility), called AHBL. AHBL comprises four steps: Anomaly detection, Human detection, Body part recognition, and Localisation on a map. It was broken down into four steps for modularity (e.g., a different way of detecting anomalies can be slipped in without changing the other modules) and because it was not clear which step is hardest to implement. As a result of evaluating AHBL, a FAMR developed for this work was able to find the pose of a fallen person (a mannequin) in a known environment with an average success rate of 83%, and an average localisation discrepancy of 1.47cm between estimated body part locations and ground truth. The presented approach can be adapted for use in other robots and contexts, and can act as a starting point toward designing systems for autonomous robotic first aid.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of physical fitness on the metabolic and perceptual responses to chest compression-only (CCO) CPR. Methods: In a counterbalanced design, forty-seven CPR-certified participants were randomized to perform: 1) a fitness assessment in which muscular (e.g., push-ups = PU) and cardiorespiratory endurance (e.g., step test recovery heart rate = RHR) were determined, and 2) a 10-minute CCO-CPR trial in which the heart rate (HR) response and ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) were determined. Results: Both PU and RHR were significantly correlated to the HR response to CCO-CPR (r = - 0.45, p < 0.01; r = 0.54, p < 0.001). PU were significantly correlated to RPE: local muscular (r = - 0.43; p < 0.01), central (r = - 0.45; p < 0.01), and over-all (r = - 0.39; p < 0.01). Conclusions: Greater physical fitness lessens the metabolic and perceptual strain to CCO-CPR. / by Adam J. Berrones. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-02-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:38:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mendes_mcs_me_assis.pdf: 327150 bytes, checksum: b3bced17d6835388baaef5254ea50ebf (MD5) / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo estudar a escuta no atendimento da recepção dos usuários num serviço de Saúde Mental Coletiva e sua repercussão nos projetos terapêuticos da instituição. Partiu-se da hipótese de que a forma como ocorre a escuta nesses primeiros contatos pode privilegiar ações assistenciais na perspectiva da Atenção Psicossocial, que visa a constituição de um paradigma substitutivo ao modelo psiquiátrico, ou ações que reforçam o paradigma psiquiátrico dominante. O estudo foi desenvolvido num programa de Saúde Mental que funciona no Centro de Saúde de um município do Estado de São Paulo com 30 mil habitantes, cujo atendimento inicial é denominado Pronto Atendimento. Chegamos à conceituação de duas modalidades de recepção na instituição: o Pronto Atendimento, como uma recepção burocrática, e a recepção-escuta, um modo de recepção em consonância com o paradigma da Atenção Psicossocial. Os dados foram colhidos por intermédio da recepção-escuta com um grupo de usuários no atendimento inicial da instituição, num período de dois meses, no plantão semanal da pesquisadora. Foram realizadas observações participantes sobre a interação desses modos de escuta inicial com a instituição e seus programas e com os profissionais da equipe. Levaram-se em conta, ainda, dados obtidos através da leitura de prontuários e dados fornecidos pelos próprios usuários através de entrevistas que revelaram a relação, destes usuários, com o tratamento a que foram encaminhados seis meses após a recepção-escuta... / This research was carried out to study attentiveness in the first-aid given to patients when they arrive at the first-aid reception room of a Public Mental Health Service and its effect on the therapeutic projects of that Service. We started from the hypothesis that the way such a care is given to patients at that first contact may favor assistance in the perspective of the Psychosocial Care which aims at the organization of a substitutive paradigm to replace the psychiatric model or actions which reinforce the prevailing psychiatric paradigm. The study at issue was carried out in the context of a Mental Health program of a Health Service in a county with 30 thousand people, and its first-aid care is called Pronto Atendimento. Two kinds of first-aid care were classified at that Health Service: first-aid care viewed as a bureaucratic promptness and the Attentive first-aid care, a way of attending to patients in accordance with the paradigm of the Psychosocial Care. The data of the research were collected by means of the attentive first-aid care given to a group of patients as they first arrived at the Service, along a two-month training practice while the researcher was on duty at that Service. Participant observation was also made broaching the interaction of such kinds of attentive first-aid care with the Service at issue and its programs, and also with the first-aid personnel team. One also took into consideration data collected by means of research into the Service record and the information provided by patients in interviews focusing on their relation to the treatment they had been given six months after the attentive first-aid care ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)