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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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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Post-intubation hypotension (PIH) after prehospital emergency anaesthesia (PHEA) is prevalent and associated with increased mortality in trauma patients.
James Price +9 more
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Fairness in ambulance routing for post disaster management
Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2021 Disaster management generally includes the post-disaster stage, which consists of the actions taken in response to the disaster damages. These actions include the employment of emergency plans and assigned resources to (i) rescue affected people ...
R. Aringhieri +3 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2022 Background Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is an intervention that can be performed in the prehospital setting for relieving cardiac tamponade and/or obtaining vascular control of suspected sub-diaphragmatic haemorrhage in patients in traumatic cardiac ...
Phillip Almond +3 more
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Shortening Ambulance Response Time Increases Survival in Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Background The ambulance response time in out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has doubled over the past 30 years in Sweden. At the same time, the chances of surviving an OHCA have increased substantially.
Johan Holmén +6 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Critical hypertension in major trauma patients is associated with increased mortality. Prehospital emergency anaesthesia (PHEA) is performed for 10% of the most seriously injured patients.
Liam Sagi +11 more
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Driving the ambulance: an essential component of emergency medical services: an integrative review
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background The transport of patients from one location to another is a fundamental part of emergency medical services. However, little interest has been shown in the actual driving of the ambulance.
Julia Becker, Karin Hugelius
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MODERN ASPECTS OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF SEVERE COMBINED TRAUMA USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Вестник медицинского института «Реавиз»: Реабилитация, врач и здоровье, 2021 Relevance. The variety of options for combining injuries and disorders occurring in the body with a combined injury, the need for rapid decision-making on treatment require rapid diagnosis of the entire volume of injuries and determining the severity of ...
I. E. Popova +4 more
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The mission characteristics of a newly implemented rural helicopter emergency medical service
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2018 Background Physician-staffed helicopter emergency services (HEMS) can provide benefit through the delivery of specialist competence and equipment to the prehospital scene and through expedient transport of critically ill patients to specialist care. This
Daniel Kornhall +4 more
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GeoInformatica, 2021 The correct estimation of ambulance travel time is an extremely important issue from the perspective of healthcare and the security of citizens. In some events, the threat to the health or life of an injured person increases with each minute of waiting ...
M. Lupa +3 more
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