在紧急医疗服务中对职业危险进行国家检查
Jonathan R Powell1,2, Rebecca E Cash3, Jordan D Kurth4
1Research Department, National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Columbus, Ohio, USA jpowell@nremt.org.
Occupational and environmental medicine
|October 13, 2023
概括
紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 的临床医生经常面临诸如伤害,暴露和暴力等职业危险. 包括培训和政策在内的缓解策略与这些重要工人的风险降低有关.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 紧急医疗 紧急医疗
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 的临床医生遇到重大的职业危险.
- 了解这些危险的频率和风险因素对于临床医生的福祉至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估EMS临床医生经历的职业危险的频率.
- 评估缓解策略与这些危险的发生之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 美国国家认证的民用EMS临床医生的横截面分析.
- 对人口统计,工作经验和职业危险收集的调查数据.
- 用于识别关联的多变量逻辑回归模型.
主要成果:
- 在过去的12个月中,受伤 (27%),暴露 (38%) 和暴力 (64%) 的高流行率.
- 起重政策,培训和电动担架减少了受伤的几率.
- 化学,生物和核暴露培训降低了暴露的几率.
- 缓和升级训练降低了暴力的可能性.
结论:
- 在EMS临床医生中,职业危险很普遍.
- 实施的缓解策略与减少危险报告有关.
- 这些策略的广泛采用可以减少EMS人员的职业风险.
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