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Emergency Medical Service Personnel Satisfaction Regarding Ambulance Service Facilities and Welfare

طب اورژانس ایران, 2015
Introduction: Personnel job satisfaction, facilities and welfare are among the most important factors affecting quality of service. To date, no study has been done in the field of Emergency medical service (EMS) personnel satisfaction regarding ...
Ali Asghar Jesmi, Hadiseh Monadi Ziyarat, Mahmoud Marhamati, Taghi Mollaei, Hadi Ahmadi Chenari   +4 more
doaj  

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

Modeling Uncertainty for the Double Standard Model Using a Fuzzy Inference System

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018
This paper studies the issue of uncertainty in the ambulance location problem to cover the maximum number of demand points in a city. The work is based on the double standard model (DSM), a popular coverage model where two radii are considered to cover a
Noelia Torres, Leonardo Trujillo, Yazmin Maldonado   +2 more
doaj   +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

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 for Ambulate [PDF]

Future Healthcare Journal, 2019
To reduce admissions and create beds while providing top quality service. We transformed an already existing, nurse-led day unit and clinic area into an ambulatory unit. We converted the sitting hall into a patient area, by fitting partition curtains and placing two trolleys and three couches, accommodating five patients at one time.
Faisal B, Chaudhry, Jayne, Brown, Amar, Bhat, Neil, Stewart   +3 more
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Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective (EXTRACCT) Blast Injury Clinical Practice Guideline: Ocular Trauma

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
This clinical practice guideline from the Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective (EXTRACCT) group reviews current best practice for the management of ocular trauma in conflict‐affected regions, where explosive weapons are used and healthcare infrastructure is limited.
Emma Butterfield, Alistair Bolt, Gerry Clare, John Mattia, Aung Maw Tin‐U, Iddi Ndyabawe, Larry Schwab, Siegfried Karl Wagner, On behalf of the EXTRACCT Clinical Practice Guidelines Collaboration   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Surgeon’s Duty

, 2014
Dr. Albert Gaillard Hall described a scenario in where he was tricked by his soldiers; “At our rendezvous, on three successive mornings, men reported sick, complaining of backache and headache, and with a very heavily coated tongue, but without other ...
Carlino, Andrew P.
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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

Community First Responders’ role in the current and future rural health and care workforce: a mixed-methods study

Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Background Community First Responders are trained volunteers dispatched by ambulance services to potentially life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest in the first vital minutes to provide care until highly skilled ambulance staff arrive ...
Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Gupteswar Patel, Vanessa Botan, Murray D Smith, Viet-Hai Phung, Julie Pattinson, Ian Trueman, Colin Ridyard, Mehrshad Parvin Hosseini, Zahid Asghar, Roderick Orner, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Elise Rowan, Robert Spaight   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source