Assessment of health emergency drill ability for sudden poisoning incidents in Guangdong Province / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ability of health emergency drill for sudden poisoning incidents in Guangdong Province. METHODS: A double-blinded method was used to organize 22 teams in Guangdong Province to conduct a health emergency drill which contained preliminary and repeated drill. The preliminaries contained blind sample analysis,theoretical examination and skills assessment. The repeated drills was desktop network exercise carried out for the teams ranked top 10 in the preliminaries. RESULTS: In the preliminary round,the median( M) of total score among the 22 teams was 72. 5. Among them,blind sample analysis,theoretical examination and skills assessment were 71. 0,61. 4 and 76. 5,respectively. The total score of skill assessment was higher than that of theoretical assessment( P < 0. 05). The passing rate of 22 teams was 68. 2%(15/22),and the failure rate was 31. 8%(7/22). The failing teams all came from the nonPearl River Delta region. The total preliminary scores,passing rate,the total scores of blind sample analysis and skills assessment of the teams in Pearl River Delta Region were higher than that in the non-Pearl River Delta region( P < 0. 01).In the theoretical examination,the scores of detection and investigation were both higher than that of medical rescue( P <0. 05). For the skills assessment,the scores of decision-making,personal protection and poisoning detection were in the top three,the scores of the medical rescue and investigation were relatively low( P < 0. 05). In the repeated round,the M of desktop exercise was 55. 0,passing rate was 20. 0%,and the failure rate was 80. 0%. CONCLUSION: The health emergency response capacity for sudden poisoning incidents in Guangdong Province needs to be improved. The construction of emergency response capacity for emergency poisoning in the non-Pearl River Delta region should be strengthened,especially the training on strengthening theoretical and practical knowledge of poisoning medical treatment and poisoning investigation.