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Ambulance 3G [PDF]

2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 27th Annual Conference, 2005
Minimising the time required for a patient to receive primary care has always been the concern of the Accidents and Emergency units. Ambulances are usually the first to arrive on the scene and to administer first aid. However, as the time that it takes to transfer the patient to the hospital increases, so does the fatality rate. In this paper, a mobile
Banitsas, KA, Perakis, K, Tachakra, S, Koutsouris, D, Konis, G   +4 more
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The specialization of emergency medical services in Iran: A qualitative study [PDF]

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Background: The specialization of emergency medical services (EMS) in the areas of cardiac and neurological disorders, accidents, and toxicology has emerged as a recent challenge.
Habib A. Babaei, Masoud Ferdosi, Fatemeh Rezaei, Gholamraza Masoumi   +3 more
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Ambulance economics [PDF]

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, P, O'Halloran, P, Littlejohns, A, Kennedy, G, Butson   +4 more
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Developing a prehospital care service in a low‐resource setting: Barriers and solutions

Health Science Reports, 2023
Prehospital care (PHC) is critical to the comprehensive and effective functioning of a healthcare system. Given the disproportionate burden of both communicable and non‐communicable diseases in low‐income nations, its significance cannot be understated ...
Berjo D. Takoutsing, Yvan Zolo
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Call volume, triage outcomes, and protocols during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Results of a national survey

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
Objectives During the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK), to describe volume and pattern of calls to emergency ambulance services, proportion of calls where an ambulance was dispatched, proportion conveyed to hospital, and ...
Helen Snooks, Alan John Watkins, Fiona Bell, Mike Brady, Andy Carson‐Stevens, Edward Duncan, Bridie Angela Evans, Louise England, Theresa Foster, John Gallanders, Imogen Gunson, Robert Harris‐Mayes, Mark Kingston, Ronan Lyons, Elisha Miller, Andy Newton, Alison Porter, Tom Quinn, Andy Rosser, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Robert Spaight, Victoria Williams   +21 more
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EXAMINATION OF AMBULANCE ARRIVAL TIMES BY GEOINFORMATICS TOOLS – EXAMPLE OF BORSOD-ABAÚJZEMPLÉN COUNTY (HUNGARY) [PDF]

Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2022
An essential part of the health system is the ambulance service, whose main task is to provide patients with high quality care. In the spirit of the above, the aim of the study is to explore the spatial characteristics of the ambulance service in a ...
Dániel ECSEGI, Gábor KOZMA
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Serum fluoride levels in ambulance staff after commencement of methoxyflurane administration compared to meta-analysis results for the general public

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2021
Objectives Ambulance officers administering methoxyflurane as an inhalational analgesic may be exposed to trace vapor. Fluoride is a methoxyflurane metabolite, and has been associated with acute renal failure in anesthesia patients and skeletal fluorosis
Serah Joan Allison, Paul David Docherty, Dirk Pons, James Geoffrey Chase   +3 more
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Innovation in the use of motor ambulance for prehospital emergency care

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2019
BACKGROUND: Prehospital emergency care system is one of the important parts of the health system. Heavy traffic, increasing urban population, and growing demands for prehospital emergency services are challenges faced by this section of the health system.
Mehdi Jafari, Khosro Shakeri, Payam Mahmoudian, Seyed Ahmad Bathaei   +3 more
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Factors associated with utilization of motorcycle ambulances by pregnant women in rural eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2016
This article reports the evidence suggests that use of motorcycle ambulances can help to improve health facility deliveries; however, few studies have explored the motivators for and barriers to their usage.
Joseph K. B. Matovu, Rogers Ssebunya
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Availability of facilities and equipment to provide emergency care in ambulances, which transport patients to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2019
Objective To describe available facilities and equipment in ambulances, to provide essential emergency care, which transport patients to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka Methods A descriptive cross-sectional hospital based study was carried out at the
Gangadevi Nandasena, Chrisantha Abeysena
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