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2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 27th Annual Conference, 2005 Minimising the time required for a patient to receive primary care has always been the concern of the Accidents and Emergency units. Ambulances are usually the first to arrive on the scene and to administer first aid. However, as the time that it takes to transfer the patient to the hospital increases, so does the fatality rate. In this paper, a mobile
Banitsas, KA +4 more
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Future Healthcare Journal, 2019 To reduce admissions and create beds while providing top quality service. We transformed an already existing, nurse-led day unit and clinic area into an ambulatory unit. We converted the sitting hall into a patient area, by fitting partition curtains and placing two trolleys and three couches, accommodating five patients at one time.
Faisal B, Chaudhry +3 more
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Medical Journal of Australia, 2022 To assess whether ambulance offload time influences the risks of death or ambulance re‐attendance within 30 days of initial emergency department (ED) presentations by adults with non‐traumatic chest pain.
L. Dawson +11 more
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Pre-hospital critical care management of severe hypoxemia in victims of Covid-19: a case series
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Objective Despite critical hypoxemia, Covid-19 patients may present without proportional signs of respiratory distress. We report three patients with critical respiratory failure due to Covid-19, in which all presented with severe hypoxemia refractory to
Jens Otto Mæhlen +5 more
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A Novel Smart Ambulance System—Algorithm Design, Modeling, and Performance Analysis
IEEE Access, 2022 Smart ambulance is a novel system where modern communication, computation, and sensing technologies are employed to revolutionize ambulance and emergency systems.
Mohammad A. R. Abdeen +5 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2020 Background High rates of mental distress, mental illness, and the associated physical effects of psychological injury experienced by ambulance personnel has been widely reported in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding of how the
S. Lawn +5 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 A 3 month old boy, with no known health conditions, suffered a sudden collapse at home. On first EMS arrival, ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest was identified and resuscitation following UK national guidelines was initiated.
Peter Kingsley +4 more
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5G-Network-Enabled Smart Ambulance: Architecture, Application, and Evaluation
IEEE Network, 2021 As the fifth generation (5G) network comes to the fore, the realization of 5G-enabled service has attracted much attention from both healthcare academics and practitioners. In particular, 5G-enabled emergency ambulance service allows to connect a patient
Yun-kai Zhai +9 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Some patients involved in a road traffic collision (RTC) are physically entrapped and extrication is required to provide critical interventions. This can be performed either in an expedited way, or in a more controlled manner. In this study we
Eyston Vaughan-Huxley +5 more
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Drone versus ambulance for blood products transportation: an economic evaluation study
BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Medical transportation is an essential step in health care services, and includes ground, air and water transportation. Among the important uses of medical transportation is the delivery of blood products in the event of a clinical emergency.
M. A. Zailani +8 more
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