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Being secure in insecurity : aspects of caring in the ambulance service [PDF]

, 2015
Ambulance care focuses foremost on medical care and treatment. On the one hand the ambulance service encounters persons suffering acute and severe physical illness or injuries; conversely ambulance patients are described, as being vulnerable to more ...
Holmberg, Mats
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Regional Variations in Emergency Service Performance: Does Social Capital Matter? [PDF]

, 2014
Regional variations in emergency service performance: does social capital matter?, Regional Studies. The relationship between social capital and the performance of public organizations is currently at the top of the UK policy agenda and elsewhere.
Andrews R., Association of County Chief Fire Officers Executives, Beugelsdijk S., Bowerman B. L., Boyle D., Coleman J. S., Cooke M., D'Hombres B., Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Greene W. H., Halpern D., Hirschman A. O., Horne N., Jordan B., La Porta R., Lindell M. K., Moy R., Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), Paresh Wankhade, Pharr S. J., Putnam R. D., Rhys Andrews, Scott W. R., Suttles G.   +25 more
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Impact of drug and equipment preparation on pre-hospital emergency Anaesthesia (PHEA) procedural time, error rate and cognitive load

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018
Background We examined the effect of advanced preparation and organisation of equipment and drugs for Pre-hospital Emergency Anaesthesia (PHEA) and tracheal intubation on procedural time, error rates, and cognitive load.
Paul Swinton, Alasdair R. Corfield, Chris Moultrie, David Percival, Jeffrey Proctor, Neil Sinclair, Zane B. Perkins   +6 more
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Patients’ and emergency clinicians’ perceptions of improving pre-hospital pain management: a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The authors aimed to investigate patients' and practitioners' views and experiences of pre-hospital pain management to inform improvements in care and a patient-centred approach to treatment. Methods: This was a qualitative study involving a
Iqbal, Mohammad, Siriwardena, A. Niroshan, Spaight, Anne   +2 more
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The Smart AMBULANCE Service

, 2020
India is a second most populous country in the world. So, in day to day use people uses vehicles for their daily purpose and it causes heavy traffic on the roads.
Shubham Patil, Vikram Rajiwade
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Paramedic experiences of providing care in Wales (UK) during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic (PECC-19): a qualitative study using evolved grounded theory

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To explore paramedic experiences of providing care during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and develop theory in order to inform future policy and practice.Design Qualitative study using constructivist evolved grounded theory (EGT) methodology.
Nigel Rees, Julia Williams, Lauren Smythe, Chloe Hogan   +3 more
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Outcomes for Patients Who Contact the Emergency Ambulance Service and Are Not Transported to the Emergency Department: A Data Linkage Study

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2019
Objectives: Emergency ambulance services do not transport all patients to hospital. International literature reports non-transport rates ranging from 3.7–93.7%.
J. Coster, A. O’Cathain, R. Jacques, A. Crum, N. Siriwardena, J. Turner   +5 more
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Work intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and ‘everyday’ experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service

Public Management Review, 2019
Many organizational contexts have experienced radical changes resulting in work intensification. Whilst emergency services face evident ‘macro-extreme’ challenges (emergencies, major traumas) employees also experience parallel, everyday ‘routine’ in ...
Paresh Wankhade, P. Stokes, S. Tarba, Peter Rodgers   +3 more
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Emergency Care Handover (ECHO study) across care boundaries : the need for joint decision making and consideration of psychosocial history [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Inadequate handover in emergency care is a threat to patient safety. Handover across care boundaries poses particular problems due to different professional, organisational and cultural backgrounds.
Apker, Arora, Banerjee, Behara, Bomba, Bost, Catchpole, Cheung, Cohen, Haig, Hilligoss, Hodges, Institute of Medicine, Johnson, Laurence Fitton, Mark A Sujan, Matthew Inada-Kim, Matthew W Cooke, Michelle Rudd, O'Leary, Patterson, Peter Chessum, Peter Spurgeon, Petersen, Pope, Pothier, Raduma-Tomas, Solet, Talbot, Ye   +29 more
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Improving the prehospital management of ST elevation myocardial infarction: a national quality improvement initiative

BMJ Open Quality, 2019
ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a time-dependent clinical emergency. Early recognition and intervention in the clinical course of STEMI are key to reducing mortality and morbidity.
Ian Howard, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen   +3 more
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