Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sinclair, Mike
• Pigott, David W
• Carpenter, Katherine N

Titel

Texting shows recovery after faint

Ist Teil von

• BMJ. British medical journal (International ed.), 2008-12, Vol.337 (7684), p.1457

Auflage

International edition

Ort / Verlag

London: BMJ Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

•   Sinclair et al discuss their observations and experiences in joining a team of the Festival Medical Services, a charitable trust that provides music festivals throughout the UK with doctors, nurses, paramedics, first aiders, and other trained medical and administrative staff. Moreover, they share that three years ago, they noticed that most of the patients with faint or panic attack were teenagers and as soon as they could used their mobile phones to send a SMS (short message service) text message to their friends. The ability to text, whether or not it actually makes sense, requires a Glasgow coma scale of 15 (fully conscious), an adequately functioning "executive system" in the frontal lobes, and a high degree of manual dexterity and psychomotor coordination. It also shows a degree of common sense not always evident in teenagers. Furthermore, two years ago, the team decided to use this texting sign as an indicator that patients had recovered from their faint or panic attack and were orientated and coordinated enough to be discharged back to the festival.