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Mission impossible or border security – Practical and effective infection control on air ambulances

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Infection control on air ambulances is particularly difficult and although the principles have been well described in the hospital setting, not all of these can be applied to the air ambulance environment.
M. Kuhn*
doaj   +1 more source

Oslo government district bombing and Utøya island shooting July 22, 2011: The immediate prehospital emergency medical service response [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two incidents.
Stephen JM Sollid   +9 more
core   +1 more source

The Feasibility and Safety of Prehospital Whole Blood Administration for Patients in Hemorrhagic Shock in Isolated Regions of Colorado: Assessment of the First 6 Months

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
The aim of this pilot study is to summarize evidence from the implementation of prehospital whole blood programs in rural Colorado with focus on the feasibility and safety of whole blood in rural areas with prolonged transport times to definitive care.
Matthew Branney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Involvement in emergency situations by primary care doctors on-call in Norway - a prospective population-based observational study

open access: yesBMC Emergency Medicine, 2010
Background Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals.
Hunskaar Steinar, Zakariassen Erik
doaj   +1 more source

Tanzania: In their own words: Poor women and health services. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
"In Their Own Words: Poor Women And Health Services" highlights critical constraints that poor women experience in accessing health services, including the challenges they face and the strategies they use to overcome them. This summary report is meant to
Women's Dignity Project/Utu Mwanamke, (WDP)
core  

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

open access: yesHistory, 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

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Cost‐Effectiveness of Prehospital Ambulance Helicopter Transportation of Patients With Presumed Stroke in the Era of Mechanical Thrombectomy

open access: yesStroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
Background Mechanical thrombectomy has emerged as standard of care in treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke attributable to large‐vessel occlusion.
Nicklas Ennab Vogel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source

The Non‐Understandable World of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Therapist's Implicit Understanding and Subsequent Deepened Understanding

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
wiley   +1 more source

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