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The characteristics and clinical outcomes of trauma patients transferred by a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service in Korea: a retrospective study [PDF]

Journal of Trauma and Injury
Purpose Helicopter transport with medical teams has been proven to be effective, with improvements in patient survival rates. This study compared and analyzed the clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of trauma patients transported by doctor ...
Myung Jin Jang, Woo Sung Choi, Jung Nam Lee, Won Bin Park   +3 more
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Factors affecting development of air ambulance base: A systematic review and thematic analysis

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021
Nowadays, air ambulances have been developed as part of advanced emergency medicine services with many countries employing these services for transferring patients in usual and emergency conditions.
Zahra Eskandari, Zohreh Ghomian, Sanaz Sohrabizadeh, Ahmad Alibabaei, Hojjat Ahmadinejad   +4 more
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Rescue procedures in the major trauma of upper extremities – The role of the polish medical air rescue in the therapeutic process

Medycyna Pracy, 2014
Background: Due to the growing use of various types of industrial and agricultural machinery, occupational accidents are among the most serious ones and quite frequently result in the permanent posttraumatic disability of the injured person. In Poland, a
Robert Gałązkowski, Stanisław Paweł Świeżewski, Daniel Rabczenko, Arkadiusz Wejnarski, Dariusz Timler, Grzegorz Michalak, Ireneusz Kotela   +6 more
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Knowledge Integration in Professional Practices: Towards a New Transacting Approach

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances understanding of knowledge integration across professional boundaries by examining how professionals coordinate action in two life‐ and time‐critical settings: aircraft maintenance and emergency healthcare. Building on established knowledge integration perspectives, the study investigates situations in which actors must ...
Ann Svensson, Ritva Rosenbäck
wiley   +1 more source

Locating helicopter ambulance bases in Iceland: efficient and fair solutions

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Fixed-wing air ambulances play an important role in healthcare in rural Iceland. More frequent use of helicopter ambulances has been suggested to shorten response times and increase equity in access to advanced emergency care.
Björn Gunnarsson, Kristrún María Björnsdóttir, Sveinbjörn Dúason, Ármann Ingólfsson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparative study on specialized services in pre-hospital emergencies in Iran and selected countries

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2023
The quality of emergency services is one of the indicators describing the health status of countries. Moreover, the specialization of services and targeted response to any accident or disease has been the priority of pre-hospital emergency operations in ...
Habib Allah Babaei, Masoud Ferdosi, Gholamraza Masoumi, Fatemeh Rezaei   +3 more
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Views from the Inside: Reflections on the Modern Hospital

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract There's a constant refrain in the press, on social media and from populist politicians that the NHS is dying on its feet. How accurate is this picture? This article takes a behind‐the‐scenes look at daily life in a modern, big city hospital. The Queen Elizabeth is now the biggest workplace in Birmingham.
Jon Bloomfield
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment, transport, and primary care involvement when helicopter emergency medical services are inaccessible: a retrospective study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018
Objective: To examine handling of cancelled helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) missions with a persisting medical indication. Design: Retrospective observational study.
Dag Ståle Nystøyl, Steinar Hunskaar, Hans Johan Breidablik, Øyvind Østerås, Erik Zakariassen   +4 more
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Outcomes of Traffic Accident Patients Transferred by Air and Ground Ambulance: Propensity Score Matching

Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2021
Background: The main task of the emergency medical system is to provide primary care and transfer the patients to hospital. Studies have been conducted to investigate the outcome of air and ground ambulance patients, but they show different results ...
Amir Hamta, Mina Gaeeni, Mohammad Reza Azadeh, Mohammad Parvaresh Masoud   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source