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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background The risk of COVID-19 transmission to healthcare professionals is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) presents a number of potential challenges to responders that may impact upon the
James Raitt +4 more
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Journal of Public Health, 2000 Ambulance services produce a large quantity of data, which can yield valuable summary statistics. For strategic planning purposes, an economic framework is proposed, and the following four resource allocation questions are answered, using data from the Surrey Ambulance Service: (1) To satisfy government response time targets, how many additional ...
A J, Fischer +4 more
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Apnoeic oxygenation for emergency anaesthesia of pre-hospital trauma patients
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Efficient and timely airway management is universally recognised as a priority for major trauma patients, a proportion of whom require emergency intubation in the pre-hospital setting.
Kate Crewdson +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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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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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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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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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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“Motorcycle Ambulance” Policy to Promote Health and Sustainable Development in Large Cities
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2021 Introduction: Motorcycles can be considered a new form of smart vehicle when taking into account their small and modern structure and due to the fact that nowadays, they are used in the new role of ambulance to rapidly reach emergency patients in large ...
Korakot Apiratwarakul +6 more
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