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Ambulance Services

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Abstract—This paper aims at identifying the role of lucky EMS comes at the right time to save lives due to its fast flow of events in today’s world. The services involve transporting client or clients to other relative facilities for diagnosis, stabilization or further treatment after receiving an emergency call.
Dr. Kuppala Saritha, Rahul Yadav Boini, Mohana Ranga T, Shaik Irfan, B Bharath Reddy, D V Tejesh Reddy   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Weathering the storms of climate change: Preparing persons with disabilities and the physiatrists who provide their care for extreme hurricanes

PM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate‐driven disasters have disproportionate and often devastating consequences on individuals with disabilities. Warming ocean and air temperatures are fueling more extreme tropical cyclones, further endangering those living in at‐risk regions.
Mollie Andreae, James M. Shultz, J. Marshall Shepherd, Zelde Espinel, Lauren T. Shapiro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nurses’ experiences of encountering patients with mental illness in prehospital emergency care – a qualitative interview study

BMC Nursing, 2022
Background Nurses working in prehospital emergency care (PEC) encounter patients with all types of health conditions. Increasingly, they are encountering patients suffering from mental illness and this trend reflects the worldwide increase in mental ...
Zetterberg Johanna, Visti Elin, Holmberg Mats, Andersson Henrik, Aléx Jonas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) - a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation.
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Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
wiley   +1 more source

A Dynamic Redeployment System for Critical Care Paramedic Units in Qatar Utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning

IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Timely ambulance allocation is essential for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to deliver life-saving care effectively. Conventional methods often struggle to adapt to the unpredictable nature and locations of emergencies.
Reem Tluli, Ahmed Badawy, Saeed Salem, Muhammad Hardan, Sailesh Chauhan, Guillaume Alinier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining criteria to choose appropriate destination hospital for trauma patients: Piacenza Local Health Authority’s Piacenza trauma algorithm protocol

Emergency Care Journal, 2016
Ambulance crew’s choosing of appropriate destination hospital for trauma patients can affect survival and morbidity outcomes. Aim of the present study is to devise a decision-making algorithm in order to allow the best choice of destination hospital for ...
Fabio Mozzarelli, Stefano Nani, Enrica Rossi, Mario Pizzamiglio   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring frailty and its association with key outcomes in the ambulance setting: a cross sectional observational study

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Little is known about frailty in the ambulance setting, or its association with outcomes relevant to ambulance services. We sought to measure frailty in people aged ≥ 50 attended by an ambulance, and describe the relationship between frailty ...
Karl Charlton, David R Sinclair, Barbara Hanratty, Emma Burrow, Daniel Stow   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source