Healthcare delivery aboard US Navy hospital ships following earthquake disasters: Implications for future disaster relief missions

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Franklin Sechriest II, MD ◽  
Vern Wing, MS ◽  
G. Jay Walker, BA ◽  
Maureen Aubuchon, BS ◽  
David W. Lhowe, MD
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy ◽  
Clinical Diagnoses ◽  
Future Earthquake ◽  
Extremity Injuries ◽  
Hospital Ships

Objective: Since 2004, the US Navy has provided ship-borne medical assistance during three earthquake disasters. Because Navy ship deployment for disaster relief (DR) is a recent development, formal guidelines for equipping and staffing medical operations do not yet exist. The goal of this study was to inform operational planning and resource allocation for future earthquake DR missions by 1) reporting the type and volume of patient presentations, medical staff, and surgical services and 2) providing a comparative analysis of the current medical and surgical capabilities of a hospital ship and a casualty receiving and treatment ship (CRTS).Design: The following three earthquake DR operations were reviewed retrospectively: 1) USNS Mercy to Indonesia in 2004, 2) USNS Mercy to Indonesia in 2005, and 3) USNS Comfort/USS Bataan to Haiti in 2010. (The USS Bataan was a CRTS.) Mission records and surgical logs were analyzed. Descriptive and statistical analysis was performed. Comparative analysis of hospital ship and CRTS platforms was made based on firsthand observations.Results: For the three missions, 986 patient encounters were documented. Of 1,204 diagnoses, 80 percent were disaster-related injuries, more than half of which were extremity trauma. Aboard hospital ships, healthcare staff provided advanced (Echelon III) care for disaster-related injuries and various nondisaster- related conditions. Aboard the CRTS, staff provided basic (Echelon II) care for disaster-related injuries.Conclusions: Our data indicate that musculoskeletal extremity injuries in sex- and age-diverse populations comprised the majority of clinical diagnoses. Current capabilities and surgical staffing of hospital ships and CRTS platforms influenced their respective DR operations, including the volume and types of surgical care delivered.

Pacific Partnership 18

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
M Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Medical Service ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Navy

AbstractIn March 2018, a team of five UK Defence Medical Service (DMS) personnel deployed to Hawaii in order to take part in the US Navy-led PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (PP18) mission. This was the third deployment of UK DMS personnel to this annual humanitarian and disaster relief preparedness mission and further supported a shift in focus into the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region.

Russian Policy of Agriculture Support and the Necessity of Its Modification after WTO Accession

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Wto Accession ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Agriculture Support

The article deals with the features of the Russian policy of agriculture support in comparison with the EU and the US policies. Comparative analysis is held considering the scales and levels of collective agriculture support, sources of supporting means, levels and mechanisms of support of agricultural production manufacturers, its consumers, agrarian infrastructure establishments, manufacturers and consumers of each of the principal types of agriculture production. The author makes an attempt to estimate the consequences of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization based on a hypothesis that this will result in unification of the manufacturers and consumers’ protection levels in Russia with the countries that have long been WTO members.

МЕЖДИСЦИПЛИНАРНОСТЬ В ПОДГОТОВКЕ КОНФЛИКТОЛОГОВ: СОСТОЯНИЕ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
А. И. Стребков ◽  
А. И. Мусаев
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Us ◽  
Promotional Materials ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
Educational Methodology

The present article concerns with the modern state of things of the conflict resolution specialists’ training in the US universities. The analysis is based on the informational and promotional materials which were picked up from the 11 American universities’ websites. The aim of the analysis was the examination of the four sections, which are: the orientation of the academic program, the content of the program or the scope of the skills, the main methodology of the academic program and the educational technologies. Together with the analysis of the US universities’ academic programs the article provides the comparative analysis of these programs with the Russian academic programs. On the back of this comparative analysis the authors come to the comprehensive conclusion according to which the specialists’ training in the field of the conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the US does not have significant differences from Russian ones and is carried out within one international academic trend in regard to its main features which are: the orientation, content, educational methodology and technologies. The key distinction of the Russian training from the American one is that the Russian academic tradition does have the core subject matter around which the whole academic program is being developed and which is the conflict. This subject matter is being taken in its entirety and the conflict resolution is considered as the closing stage of the conflict studies specialists’ training whereas the academic programs of the US universities embrace the conflict resolution as the subject matter of the academic training and therefores leaves beyond the scope of the training both the theory of the conflict and the forms practice of its manifestation in a number of the programs. The letter is peculiar to both short-term academic programs and the full-time two-year academic programs as it is accepted in the educational space of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the authors of the article make up the conclusion of the coinciding major educational methodology which guides the academic programs of the American and Russian universities and which is developed on the principles of the interdisciplinarity.

Pre-Insolvency Proceedings

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolaes Tollenaar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Class Composition ◽  
Normative Foundation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
Comprehensive Discussion

This book develops a normative foundation and framework for pre-insolvency proceedings. The book features a comprehensive discussion of the key principles underlying restructuring proceedings and explains the purpose of, and justification for, pre-insolvency proceedings. It deals with all-important issues such as class composition, cross-class cramdown, and valuation. A comparative analysis and critique of UK schemes of arrangement and the US Chapter 11 procedure is also included, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Patient assessment within the context of healthcare delivery packages: A comparative analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 248-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Blach Rossen ◽  
Niels Buus ◽  
Egon Stenager ◽  
Elsebeth Stenager
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Patient Assessment
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