medical response to mass gatherings
Post on 03-Jul-2015
976 Views
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
Medical Response to Mass Gatherings
Mr Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNA
Chief Nursing Officer, St John Ambulance Australia
Clinical Manager (Research Portfolio), Emergency Department – Calvary Health Care ACT
Research Associate, Flinders University Research Centre for Disaster Resilience and Health
Overview
• Definition• Conceptual models• Workload characteristics• Workload prediction• Event design• Implications• Case studies• Where to from here...• Questions
Definition
• Variable• Based on:
– Spectator / participant numbers– Duration– Location
Definition
Class Subclass Persons Resources Example
Mass gathering
Small 200 – 1,500 Local area Local fair
Medium 1,500 – 10,000 Local area Local sports game
Large 10,000 – 100,000 Local +/- State Concert
Major mass gathering 100,000 – 250,000 State +/- Interstate Music festivalAgricultural show
Super mass gathering 250,000 – 500,000 State and Interstate Motor sports event
Extreme mass gathering
500,000 – 1,000,00National +/- international
Religious festival
Mega mass gathering 1,000,000+National and International
Olympics
Conceptual Model
Workload characteristics
• Other extreme events• Can we predict workload?
temperature
bounded or not
ETOH / drug availability
humidity
participant numbers
day / nightindoors / outdoors
crowd behaviour
• What factors influence workload?
level of onsite care
age of participants
duration
geography
Workload characteristics and conceptual model
Workload prediction
• Why predict workload?• What to predict?
– Patient presentation rate (PPR) 0.14 to 90/1,000 (majority 0.5 and 2.6/1,000)
– Transport to hospital rate (TTHR) 0.01 to 0.55/1,000
– Referral to hospital rate 5% - 10% of PPR
• How?– Predictive models --– Historical prediction
Workload prediction
Royal Adelaide show: 1996 - 2001
Event design
• Crowd mood– Music festivals– Spaces
• Patient access
Implications
• Pre-ambulance• Pre-hospital
Implications
• Pre-ambulance• Pre-hospital• Emergency Department
Implications
• Pre-ambulance• Pre-hospital• Emergency Department• Hospital
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
Where to from here…
• Education• Research• Mass gathering management in the ACT and
surrounds
Questions?
Mr Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNA
Chief Nursing Officer, St John Ambulance Australia
Clinical Manager (Research Portfolio), Emergency Department – Calvary Health Care ACT
Research Associate, Flinders University Research Centre for Disaster Resilience and Health
top related