Archive for May, 2020

Sterilizing Household Sharps & Needles Household sharps and are part of us in one way or another; we depend on them for a number of reasons. Some patients use needles to inject themselves from home. Apart from clinical sharps, you may also want to sterilize other kinds of needle to avoid infection.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Though we are aware of some common risk factors, anyone can need CPR at any time regardless of their health, age or sex.

A bystander should initiate the Cardiopulmonary resuscitation process on any person who’s still alive but is:

1. Not responsive or unresponsive to touch, sounds
2. Unconscious
3. Not breathing or breathing abnormally—some sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) cases begin with gasping. In this cases resuscitation should begin ASAP.

Understanding Workplace Risk Assessment

Safety and health should remain our top priorities when accomplishing our day to day tasks. Our decisions on the actions we take should be primarily based on ‘how safe’ they are.

When you prioritize safety, it means you assess risks. For instance, when crossing the road, you have to ensure there are no oncoming vehicles to avoid a possible accident.

Whether employed or self-employed, workplace risk assessment is crucial in business or workplace. People will work better when they are sure of their safety at the workplace.

A safe workplace also remains productive all year long because a team remains intact and no one has to spend weeks or months in a hospital.

Furthermore, an employer doesn’t have to answer to prolonged lawsuits and spend thousands in hospital bills treating and compensating injured workers.

But as mentioned earlier, you can only stay safe if you assess potential dangers in detail. 

In this article, we will get a deeper understanding of a risk assessment, its importance and why we need it.

 

Understanding CPR and the LUCAS CPR machine

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving technique. CPR is given when an individual has agonal respiration or is not responsive. Time is a vital determinant of the success rate of CPR.

CPR first aid consists of the application of rescue breathing as well as chest compressions. Compressions should be the initial step. If the person is skilled and confident, then mouth to mouth resuscitation can be carried out.

The technique assists in reestablishing the unconstrained flow of blood. CPR improves the chances of survival when it is done on time and appropriately. The process is vital as it helps in averting tissue damage due to a lack of oxygen.

What’s DNR?

DNR means Do Not Resuscitate. A DNR is a legal note carried by a patient, barring doctors from resuscitating.  A DNR order can either be written or oral, depending on the country.

Without a DNR order, healthcare providers will immediately begin CPR procedures on a patient in case of an emergency. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation involves mouth to mouth or machine breathing and chest compressions to restore the function of the heart in case their heart or breathing has stopped.

DNR orders are prepared before an emergency, and it gives instructions on whether to receive CPR or not during an emergency. They are written under the direction of the patient or the patient’s family, after consultation with a physician.

DNR orders are specific only to CPR and do not affect the prescription of medication or any other medical procedures. However, in some cases, a DNR order has been used to prevent other medical interventions.

Before we discuss DNR in detail, here’s a breakdown of what the article entails.

Staying Safe from Falling Objects in Your Workplace

Falling objects can fall into two categories; static dropped objects, and dynamic dropped objects.

A static dropped object falls from rest to another position, under the force of its gravity, without any external forces added to it.

A dynamic dropped object is any object that falls from its initial position due to the application of an external force.

In both cases, many people are not aware of the forces generated when an object drops. In spite of the size of the dropping object, it is capable of causing incredible damage and injury, even when using protective gear.