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Definitions Flashcards

1
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What is a disaster?

A

When you need help from outside your country to deal with an incident

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2
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What is a complex emergency?

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A combination of any of:
- natural disaster
- conflict
- famine
- mass population movement
- social and political breakdown

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3
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What are the factors in typhoon creation?

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Warm sea temp
Atmospheric instability
High humidity
Coriolis force

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4
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What is war?

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The process of organised and purposeful use of violence of one human group against another

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5
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What is symmetric warfare?

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When both sides are equal

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6
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What is asymmetric warfare?

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When the sides are unequal

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7
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What is a protracted struggle?

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Terrorist war

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What is the manouverist approach?

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Exploitation of uncertainty

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9
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What is technocentric warfare?

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The use of remote weapons and drones

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10
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What is an example of a hollow organ?

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Colon/stomach etc

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What is shock?

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Generalised state of hypoperfusion

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What is international humanitarian law?

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Rules which (in times of armed conflict)

Protect people who are no longer taking part in hostilities
Restrict the methods and means of warfare employed

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What is a protected person?

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A person who cannot be harmed under IHL - civilian or injured person

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What is virtue ethics?

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Morals you are born with that gives you the basis for ethical decisions

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What is consequentialism?

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Consequences of your actions (its right to do A because doing B would cause ____)

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What is deontology?

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The set of rules that we follow that never change

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17
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What is an emergency?

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Anything that changes your normal course

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18
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What is classed as maternal death?

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Death of women while pregnant or within 6 weeks of termination of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy

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What is a process indicator?

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Shows us the changes in the conditions that lead to an outcome

20
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What is a humanitarian space?

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Operational environment that allows humanitarians to provide assistance and services according to IHL

21
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What is a refugee?

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Person that has crossed an international border

22
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What is a displaced person?

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Someone that has moved within their own country

23
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What is epidemiology?

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The study of diseases in human populations in order to promote, protect and restore health

24
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What is surveillance?

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The ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data in order to plan, implement and evaluate public health interventions

25
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What is a city/town?

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Large populated area

26
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What is an urban area?

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The physical expanse of cities, the area of continuous urban development

27
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What is a metropolitan area?

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A densely populated urban core and its less populated surrounding territories

28
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What is an epidemic?

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The occurrence in a defined region of cases of a disease in the human population in excess of normal expected numbers

29
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What is a pandemic?

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An epidemic occurring worldwide or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people

30
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What is a quarantine?

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Restrict the movement of well persons who may’ve been exposed to prevent the spread of disease to the healthy

31
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What is isolation?

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Separate ill people with a communicable disease from those that are healthy

32
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What is R0?

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Expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection

33
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What is Rt?

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Number of cases in the current state of population, which does not have to be the uninfected state

34
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What is triage?

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The sorting of casualties, assignment of treatment and evacuation priorities to the wounded at each echelon of medical care

35
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What is a mass casualty incident?

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When number of patients > resources available

36
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What is a multiple casualty incident?

A

Resources available = number of patients

37
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What is a major incident?

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Situation needing greater than normal response from an emergency service

38
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What is the wilderness?

A

Region uninhabited by humans

39
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What is a cardiac tamponade?

A

Buildup of blood between heart and pericardial sac

40
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What is Cardiogenic shock?

A

When the heart is not pumping properly

41
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What is neurogenic shock?

A

Loss of sympathetic reflexes

42
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What happens in septic shock?

A

Blood pooling in extremities

43
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What are minimum standards?

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Universal and quite general

44
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What is a key action?

A

Outline suggested practical steps to reach the standards

45
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What are key indicators?

A

Things that tell you if the standard is being reached

Context and time specific

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