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General elections — a new era for health care and tissue viability? [PDF]

, 2015
This has already been a busy year for practitioners, with Accident and Emergency departments full, hospitals closing to non-emergency admissions and elective surgery being cancelled.
Ousey, Karen
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Photo-based automatic 3D reconstruction of train accident scenes [PDF]

, 2018
Railway accidents place significant demands on the resources of, and support from, railway emergency management departments. Once an accident occurs, an efficient incident rescue plan needs to be delivered as early as possible to minimise the loss of ...
Chang, Jian, Liu, F., Nie, Y., Tang, Z., Zhang, Jian J.   +4 more
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Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
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Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum From a Ruptured Vessel Overlying a Sub‐Serosal Myoma: A Rare and Life‐Threatening Emergency in Women

Clinical Case Reports
Spontaneous hemoperitoneum is a rare yet potentially life‐threatening condition characterized by the accumulation of blood in the peritoneal cavity without a traumatic cause.
Eugene Kojo Adomako, Nana Serwaa Quao, Janet Naki Opare, Maurice Dordunoo   +3 more
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Questionnaire Survey of the Skills of Water Tender Drivers at the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic [PDF]

, 2019
The paper summarizes results of the study aimed to evaluate the change of firefightersengineers’ driving skills after attending the one-day training course. The research focused at drivers of firefighting water tenders. These trucks represent the first-
Jánošík, Ladislav, Jánošíková, Ivana, Poledňák, Pavel, Šudrychová, Izabela   +3 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vehicle-Human Interactive Behaviors in Emergency: Data Extraction from Traffic Accident Videos [PDF]

, 2020
Wansong Liu, Danyang Luo, Changxu Wu, Minghui Zheng   +3 more
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Improving safety in Greek road tunnels [PDF]

, 2010
Tunnels are regarded as one of the most important infrastructures in Europe, as they may improve the connection of regions and aid economic development through facilitating the transportation of people and goods.
Kazaras, K., Kirytopoulos, K., Rentizelas, A., Tatsiopoulos, I.   +3 more
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Cuneiform Nucleus Stimulation Can Assist Gait Training to Promote Locomotor Recovery in Individuals With Incomplete Tetraplegia

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Impaired ability to induce stepping after incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) can limit the efficacy of locomotor training, often leaving patients wheelchair‐bound. The cuneiform nucleus (CNF), a key mesencephalic locomotor control center, modulates the activity of spinal locomotor centers via the reticulospinal tract.
Anna‐Sophie Hofer, Lennart H. Stieglitz, Marc Bolliger, Linard Filli, Adrian Cathomen, Romina Willi, Irina Lerch, Iris Krüsi, Melina Giagiozis, Christian Meyer, Martin Schubert, Michèle Hubli, Thomas M. Kessler, László Demkó, Christian R. Baumann, Lukas Imbach, Markus F. Oertel, Andrea Prusse, Alina Kiseleva, Luca Regli, Martin E. Schwab, Armin Curt   +21 more
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Predicting mortality of geriatric trauma patients in Hong Kong—A comparison of scoring systems: GERtality score, Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Introduction Various scoring systems have been devised in attempt to prognosticate and predict outcomes in trauma. This study aims to assess the comparative performance of the GERtality and Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score (GTOS) scores in predicting ...
Jeremy Ho Hei Chiu, Kai Yip Lai, Janice Hiu Hung Yeung, Chin San Leung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source