Title:

Using Medical Devices in Emergencies

Description:

There is a lot of training required of doctors to perform their functions in a normal hospital environment, but there are also things to consider regarding how a doctor might operate in times of emergency or evacuation such as when a hurricane forces people to leave their homes. To deal with the difficult prospect of treating people during a mass evacuation, doctors must be trained in triage where the most critical patients are visited first while less critical patients are helped by hospital staff that can operate portable devices like pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors and other specialized portable machines.