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International Contrast Ultrasound Society Safety Round Table

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, EarlyView.
The international Contract Ultrasound Society (ICUS) held a round table discussion on the safety of ultrasound contrast agents for cardiology, radiology, and pediatrics on September 4, 2024. The panel included international experts on ultrasound contrast.
Richard G. Barr, Jordan Strom, Dirk A. Clevert, Stephanie R Wilson, Thomas Porter, Kassa Darge   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Basic life support (BLS) is an important component of emergency medical management. Ambulance personnel play a key role in resuscitation to save a life before reaching the hospital.
Upendra Hansda, Sangeeta Sahoo, Sankalan Biswas, Chitta Ranjan Mohanty, Sadananda Barik, Prajna Paramita Giri   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound in Medicalized Prehospital Setting on Diagnostic Workup

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, EarlyView.
Objectives The primary objective of this study was to describe the indications for performing point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) in prehospital settings. The secondary objective was to assess its impact on the diagnostic workup when its use was initiated by the emergency physician (EP) dispatched with a mobile intensive care unit (MICU).
Frederic Balen, Andy Rouze, Xavier Dubucs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation [PDF]

, 2009
In writing this monograph, our main goal is to provide impact investors with tools to tighten the link between their investment decisions and impact creation.
Albert V. Brun, Charly Kleissner, Hersh Shefri, Patrick Guerra, Raul Pomare, Steven Godek   +5 more
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Historical parallels, Ebola virus disease and cholera: understanding community distrust and social violence with epidemics [PDF]

, 2016
In the three West African countries most affected by the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, resistance to public health measures contributed to the startling speed and persistence of this epidemic in the region.
Cohn, Samuel, Kutalek, Ruth
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Attitude and Behavior of Road Users Responding to EMS Ambulances in Developing Countries: a Cross-sectional Study

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Emergency medical service (EMS) providers use ambulance lights and sirens (L&S) to expedite their travel and to warn road users. This study aimed to assess the attitude and behavior of road users in response to EMS ambulances with warning ...
Mahmoud T. Alwidyan, Ahmad Alrawashdeh, Alaa O. Oteir   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tanzania: In their own words: Poor women and health services. [PDF]

, 2004
"In Their Own Words: Poor Women And Health Services" highlights critical constraints that poor women experience in accessing health services, including the challenges they face and the strategies they use to overcome them. This summary report is meant to
Women's Dignity Project/Utu Mwanamke, (WDP)
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Effectiveness of media awareness campaigns on the proportion of vehicles that give space to ambulances on roads: An observational study

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background and Objective: The findings of the Health Care in Danger project in Karachi suggests that there is presence of behavioral negligence among vehicle operators on roads in regards to giving way to ambulances.
Shiraz Shaikh, L. Baig, Maciej Polkowski
semanticscholar   +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

Association between physician‐staffed ambulances and patient prognoses after out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests with respect to shockable and non‐shockable rhythms: a retrospective observational study in a southern area of Shiga Prefecture Japan

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2019
Aim Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) are a significant public health problem; to improve patients’ prognoses, various interventions, such as providing physician‐staffed ambulances, have been implemented.
Fumitaka Kato, Kazunori Fujino, Naoto Shiomi, Yutaka Eguchi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source