Englisch BHS, Maturatraining mit Audio-CD

74 Tapescript The Ebola e-tablet (CD 07) Announcer: You are going to listen to a recording about a new piece of technology being used by the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, match the beginnings of the sentences (1–8) with the sentence endings (A–K). „ere are two sentence endings that you should not use. Write your answers in the spaces provided. „e…rst one (0) has been done for you. (45 sec pause, acoustic signal) Presenter: Hello and welcome to “Technology Today”! In today’s top story we will have a look at one of the many ways technology has helped Medecins sans frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders. As the name suggests Medecins sans Frontieres, or MSF, is a worldwide charity that o˜ers medical assistance in humanitarian crises around the world, irrespective of race, religion or politics. Since March 2014, MSF has been working in West Africa, responding to the largest outbreak of the Ebola disease in history. One of the problems associated with working in such a high-risk zone was how to record patients’ notes quickly and accurately while wearing full protective clothing, including three pairs of gloves. Doctor: We could only spend an hour at a time wearing the personal protective suits because of the heat. Usually we spent the last ten minutes of our shi‡ shouting patient information over a fence to the colleague on the other side who would be taking over. Even a piece of paper leaving the high-risk zone was an infection risk. Presenter: „is was a major problem: not only did it waste precious time that the medics would have preferred to spend with patients, but dictating notes across a fence while wearing a mask was a recipe for error. In response to MSF’s call for help, a group of technology volunteers was formed and they were later joined by a team from Google. Together they developed a waterproof electronic tablet that is robust enough to withstand the humidity and storms that you get in a tropical climate. „ey can be dipped in chlorine and then safely taken out of the high-risk zone. Tech advisor: We spent a lot of time thinking about the extreme environments the MSF sta˜ work in. We wanted to make sure the tablets would be as simple and safe to use as possible. First we put on the full protective clothing ourselves to understand the di¯culties the doctors working in the high-risk zone had to face. We pre-con…gured the technology so that it could be taken straight out of the box and used. It recharges quickly by being placed on a special table. We’ve got rid of normal wire-based chargers and any other sharp edges that might puncture the protective out…ts and become an infection risk. We also developed a local network server – it’s no bigger than a postage stamp and it runs on very little energy, connecting the tablets in the high-risk zone with the tablets and laptop devices outside it. Doctor: In Western hospitals, doctors take for granted having detailed medical notes that allow them to build up a picture of each of their patients. „ese new tablets give us the opportunity to properly track changes in our patients’ blood pressure or their breathing when they come into the emergency room. We can access a patient’s history quickly and provide them with individual care. And because we can also collect data from a large group of patients, it’ll help us understand the disease in future outbreaks. Although we’ve just treated the largest group of Ebola patients in human history, we still know distressingly little about how the disease progresses. Tech advisor: It will take many months to…le, organise and analyse the data that’s been collected. But now that the technology has been developed and successfully trialled, we know that the data is ready for patient care in the future. Presenter: MSF now hopes that the tech community will be able to adapt the so‡ware for use in other humanitarian emergencies such as cholera outbreaks, nutrition crises in refugee camps and any settings where detailed medical notes will make a di˜erence to patient care, or where data might improve medical understanding of a disease or outbreak. (15 sec pause, acoustic signal, track replays, 45 sec pause) Nur zu Prüfzwecke – Eigentum des Verlags öbv