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Enhancing the Safety of Medical Personal Through the Use of Modern Technology
Enhancing the Safety of Medical Personal Through the Use of Modern Technology

Author(s): Tadeusz Ratusiński, Dorota Szczeblowska
Subject(s): Education, Security and defense, Methodology and research technology, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: security; health; modern technologies; teaching process; education; dopamine; GeoGebra; infusion pump;

Summary/Abstract: Security of a society is related to the level of its health which largely depends on the level of professional education of medical staff whose task is to help a person in life-threatening situations. Life-threatening situations include among others acute cardiac failure or renal failure. One of the methods to improve health condition of patients with these medical problems is intravenous treatment with dopamine administered by an infusion pump. Medical staff is responsible for proper programming of a pump so that it gives a patient the appropriate dose. Introduction of modern technology to training program can facilitate the process of learning how to program an automatic infusion pump. The article describes an example of a simple computer program created on the basis of free software which is GeoGebra and shared as HTML pages. The prepared learning resource does not require from its receivers any programming skills or special software.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 150-162
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English