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Quality improvement tools to manage emergency callbacks from patients with diabetes in a prehospital setting

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate, as 1 in 10 adults worldwide now lives with the disease. In Qatar, a middle eastern Arab country, diabetes prevalence is equally concerning and is predicted to increase from 17% to 24% among individuals aged 45 and ...
Loua Al Shaikh, Guillaume Alinier, Ricardo Romero, Hassan Farhat, Kawther El Aifa, Khawla Athemneh, Padarath Gangaram, Mohamed Chaker Khenissi, James Laughton   +8 more
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Hazardous material and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incident readiness among prehospital care professionals in the State of Qatar

Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2022
This study aimed to determine whether the Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service (HMCAS) personnel fulfil the pre-hospital readiness requirements for hazardous material and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (HazMat-CBRN) incidents ...
Hassan Farhat, James Laughton, Padarath Gangaram, Kawther El Aifa, Mohamed Chaker Khenissi, Ouissem Zaghouani, Moncef Khadhraoui, Imed Gargouri, Guillaume Alinier   +8 more
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“You have to live with some risk, it’s part of the profession”. Specialist ambulance nurses’ perceptions of assignments involving ongoing lethal violence

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background As a result of several violent terrorist incidents, authorities in Sweden have shifted from previous approaches of being certain that it is safe for the ambulance service to enter the scene, to a one where “safe enough” is sufficient ...
Susanne Stendahl, Linda Rollgard, Lina Behm, Andreas Rantala   +3 more
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Retrospective identification of medication related adverse events in the emergency medical services through the analysis of a patient safety register

Scientific Reports, 2022
Adverse drug events encompass a wide range of potential unintended and harmful events, from adverse drug reactions to medication errors, many of which in retrospect, are considered preventable. However, the primary challenge towards reducing their burden
Ian Howard, Ian Howland, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen   +4 more
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Exploring pre‐hospital healthcare workers' readiness for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats in the State of Qatar: A cross‐sectional study

Health Science Reports, 2022
Background Hazardous Material—Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (HazMat‐CBRN) incidents, though infrequent, are environmentally precarious and perilous to living beings.
Hassan Farhat, Guillaume Alinier, Padarath Gangaram, Kawther El Aifa, Mohamed Chaker Khenissi, Sonia Bounouh, Moncef Khadhraoui, Imed Gargouri, James Laughton   +8 more
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Pre-hospital and retrieval medicine in Scotland: a retrospective cohort study of the workload and outcomes of the emergency medical retrieval service in the first decade of national coverage

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) has provided national pre-hospital critical care and aeromedical retrieval in Scotland since 2010.
Ryan D McHenry, Christopher EJ Moultrie, Andrew J Cadamy, Alasdair R Corfield, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell   +5 more
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Supporting research and development in ambulance services: research for better healthcare in prehospital settings [PDF]

, 2010
Background This paper discusses recent developments in research support for ambulance trusts in England and Wales and how this could be designed to lead to better implementation, collaboration in and initiation of high-quality research to support a truly
Donohoe, R, Phillips, P, Siriwardena, AN, Stephenson, J   +3 more
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Drug-free tracheal intubation by specialist paramedics (critical care) in a United Kingdom ambulance service: a service evaluation

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background Drug-free tracheal intubation has been a common intervention in the context of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for many years, however its use by paramedics has recently been the subject of much debate.
Silas Houghton Budd, Eleanor Alexander-Elborough, Richard Brandon, Chris Fudge, Scott Hardy, Laura Hopkins, Ben Paul, Sloane Philips, Sarah Thatcher, Paul Winsor   +9 more
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Ambulance service operational improvement [PDF]

, 2013
This document is the accepted manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Paramedic Practice copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the Publisher.
Alinier, Guillaume, Hutton, David
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Computer assisted assessment and advice for "non-serious" 999 ambulance service callers : the potential impact on ambulance despatch [PDF]

, 2003
Objective: To investigate the potential impact for ambulance services of telephone assessment and triage for callers who present with non-serious problems (Category C calls) as classified by ambulance service call takers.
Crouch, R., Dale, Jeremy, Foster, T., George, S., Glucksman, E., Hartley-Sharpe, C., Higgins, J., Hooper, R., Snooks, Helen, Williams, S.   +9 more
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