Papel de los servicios médicos en la prevención comunitaria ante situaciones de desastres.
Keywords:
desastres, triage, primeros auxilios, preparaciónAbstract
Las tendencias actuales del enfoque sobre el manejo de salud ante un desastre, convierte la preparación de la respuesta en una necesidad de una importancia vital, de manera que las comunidades deben capacitarse en la fase de Planificación ante los desastres. El objetivo es destacar el papel de los servicios médicos en situaciones de desastre. Se realizo un estudio observacional descriptivo, a través de una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica, que permitirá elevar el nivel de información de la población, convertirla en socorrista en situaciones de desastres. Se enfatizó en las actividades encaminadas especialmente a las regiones de Tórax y Abdomen que se realizan fundamentalmente en la atención primaria de salud. Se explicó el Triage, identificando las lesiones en cuanto a su prioridad de atención y a la evacuación médica de los afectados, de manera que se cumpla en este primer nivel de asistencia una secuencia lógica. Este trabajo constituirá una guía para que los profesionales de la salud preparen a las comunidades en las actividades de primeros auxilios, avalado por el hecho de que en situaciones de desastres pasan de objeto a sujeto activo en el enfrentamiento a los mismos. .
Palabras claves: Desastres, Triage, primeros auxilios, preparación, comunidad.
Abstract
The current tendencies of the focus on the handling of health before a disaster, it transforms the preparation of the answer into a necessity of a vital importance, so that the communities should be qualified in the phase of Planning before the disasters. The objective is to highlight the paper of the medical services in disaster situations. One carries out a descriptive observational study, through an exhaustive bibliographical revision that will allow to elevate the level of the population's information, to transform it into rescuer in situations of disasters. It was emphasized in the activities guided especially to the regions of Thorax and Abdomen that are carried out fundamentally in the primary attention of health. The Triage was explained, identifying the lesions as for its priority of attention and to the medical evacuation of those affected, so that it is completed in this first level of attendance a logical sequence. This work will constitute a guide so that the professionals of the health prepare to the communities in the activities of first aids, endorsed by the fact that in situations of disasters they pass from object to active fellow in the confrontation to the same ones. .
Key words: Disasters, Triage, first aids, preparation, community.Downloads
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