Emergencies

Follow the links below to find information about health and medical emergencies.

Reviewed December 2011

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Anaphylaxis

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Emergency Contraception

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First Aid

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Shock

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Title:   Workplace safety - dangerous goods
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Dangerous goods in the workplace or home can blow up, burn, be corrosive or poison people. They should be used, stored and transported with great care. Organisations such as WorkSafe Victoria can give valuable information and advice on handling dangerous goods.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Workplace safety - confined spaces
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A confined space is any enclosed structure that has limited access and contains a potentially harmful atmosphere. Examples in the workplace include tanks, pits, chimneys and underground sewers or tunnels. When working in confined spaces, it is vital to devise proper emergency procedures and to rehearse them often. Rescues or attempting to rescue someone from a confined space can be very dangerous.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Emergencies - who to call in a crisis
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   If you need advice in an emergency, or urgently need to speak to someone about a problem, there are several numbers you can call. For ambulance, fire or police services call triple zero (000). Some other helpful numbers are listed here that can help with poisons, bushfires, suicide prevention, counselling, domestic violence and other serious situations.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Workplace health - coping with a critical incident
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A critical incident is any event or series of events that is sudden, overwhelming, threatening or protracted. This may be an assault, threats, severe injury, death, fire or a bomb threat. Critical Incident Stress Management aims to help workers deal with the normal emotional reactions that may result from involvement in or exposure to critical incidents in the workplace.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Poisoning
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Dangerous things are swallowed every day by children, usually when they are at home. Most of the children who swallow poisonous things are under the age of three, when they are too young to know what is safe .
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Parkinson's disease and going to hospital
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A person with Parkinson's disease who is going into hospital may worry about managing their condition throughout their stay. There are practical things you can do to prepare for a planned or elective hospital admission.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Swallowed objects
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Young children and babies learn about their world by putting things in their mouths. It is easy for them to swallow things that may be harmful to them.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Glaucoma: acute glaucoma - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   In acute glaucoma the pressure in the eye increases rapidly, leading to sudden symptoms such as eye pain. Urgent treatment is needed to prevent vision loss.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Safer drug use
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Read this to find out about reducing/minimising the risks associated with taking drugs.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Percutaneous vascular interventions for acute ischaemic stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The majority of disabling strokes are due to blockage of a large artery in the brain by a blood clot. For these patients, the most intuitive means of treatment is removal of the blockage by either injecting clot-dissolving (thrombolytic) drugs directly ...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Thinking of suicide. Getting help if you're feeling suicidal
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   Thinking about suicide does not mean you are a bad person, or weak, or flawed. It does not even mean that you really want to die - it only means that you have more pain than you can cope with right now.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   In-service training for health professionals to improve care of the seriously ill newborn or child in low and middle-income countries (Review)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In developing countries, most deaths in very ill babies and children who seek care in healthcare facilities happen within 48 hours of being seen. Currently, a number of emergency care courses, adapted from developed countries are being promoted in devel...
Date:   May 2009
Title:   ARPANSA - Code of practice and safety guide for intervention in emergency situations involving radiation exposure (2004)
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   These Recommendations update existing guidance on the application of protective measures in planning for and responding to emergency situations in Australia involving radiation exposure.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Dental notes: drugs for the doctor's bag
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Dentists do not need to stock as many emergency drugs as general practitioners, however we are required to have fully equipped and well maintained emergency equipment in our surgery.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Drugs for the doctor's bag
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The doctor's bag should contain drugs for medical emergencies that may occur in the community. Most of these drugs are provided under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and can be ordered free of charge through a pharmacist. General practice accreditation now requires that clinics have appropriate emergency drugs as well as oxygen and a bag-valve-mask system.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Pharmacological interventions for hypertensive emergencies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hypertensive emergencies occur when high blood pressure is associated with the presence of acute end organ damage, such as heart attack or stroke. There is controversy as to when and which blood pressure drugs to use in these situations. This review loo...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Early treatment
Publisher:   National Stroke Foundation (NSF)
Description:   If you arrive at the hospital quickly, you may be treated with a drug known as tPA (Tissue Plasminogen Activator). This drug breaks down the blood clots that cause an ischaemic stroke. It is very good at improving a person's recovery after stroke but it can also cause bleeding in the brain.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Rocuronium versus succinylcholine for rapid sequence induction intubation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In emergency situations some patients need a general anaesthetic with an endotracheal tube (tube to help them breathe). It is important to have fast acting medications to allow physicians to complete this procedure quickly and safely. Currently, the mus...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Addison's disease: what if i have an Addison's crisis? - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   I have been lucky enough to not experience an Addison's Disease Crisis but would like to know what happens and what I and those around me, should do if such a crisis occurs.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Endovascular treatment for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The abdominal aorta is the main artery supplying blood to the lower part of the body. An abnormal ballooning and weakening of the wall of the aorta (aortic aneurysm) particularly affects men as they grow older. An aneurysm may progressively enlarge with...
Date:   Nov 2006

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