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Mr Jamie Ranse, Mr Shane Lenson, Mr Toby Keene, Mr Matt Luther, Dr Brandon Burke, A/Prof Alison Hutton Patient presentations to onsite health providers, ambulance paramedics and hospital emergency departments from a mass gathering: a case study

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Ranse J, Lenson S, Keene T, Luther M, Burke B, Hutton A. (2014). Patient presentations to onsite health providers, ambulance paramedics and hospital emergency departments from a mass gathering: a case study; paper presented at the 12th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, Perth, Australia, 9th October.

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Mr Jamie Ranse, Mr Shane Lenson, Mr Toby Keene, Mr Matt Luther, Dr Brandon Burke, A/Prof Alison Hutton

Patient presentations to onsite health providers, ambulance paramedics and hospital emergency

departments from a mass gathering: a case study

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• Challenges exist in providing adequate health care at a mass gathering.

• Minimising impact to the health service in the surrounding community or region.

• Onsite care from single events and does not consider the effect on prehospital or hospital services.

Aim

• This research aims to enhance our understanding of the health service requirements of an outdoor music festival.

background

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methods

• Design

• Setting

• Data collection

• Data analysis• Protection of human participants

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results

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results

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Onsite first aid care

•The most frequent illness was headaches (n=94), injury was superficial lacerations (n=13), environmental was substance and/or alcohol intoxication (n=12).

Onsite health professional care

•The most frequent illness was headaches (n=3), injury was fractures (n=2), environmental was substance and/or alcohol intoxication (n=12).

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results

Ambulance transport

•The most frequent injury was fractures (n=2), environmental was substance and/or alcohol intoxication (n=4).

•One patient required prehospital endotracheal intubation.

•Three patients required airway adjuncts.

Hospital services

•One patient required an ORIF.

•One patient required intubation and ventilator support in the Intensive Care Unit.

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discussion

• Insight into the health service usage from one event.

• Presentation to the onsite health professionals resulted in a longer length of stay in the onsite medical facility.

• Possible hospital / ambulance avoidance of 15 patients.

• Multi-site research should be undertaken to explore the health service usage from a variety of mass gatherings.

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Mr Jamie Ranse, Mr Shane Lenson, Mr Toby Keene, Mr Matt Luther, Dr Brandon Burke, A/Prof Alison Hutton

Patient presentations to onsite health providers, ambulance paramedics and hospital emergency

departments from a mass gathering: a case study