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Pediatric Readiness in Emergency Medical Services Systems

Pediatrics, 2019
Ill and injured children have unique needs that can be magnified when the child’s ailment is serious or life-threatening. This is especially true in the out-of-hospital environment.
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, B. Moore, M. Shah, T. Gross, K. Brown, M. Gausche-Hill, K. Remick, K. Adelgais, Lara D. Rappaport, Sally K. Snow, Cynthia Wright-Johnson, J. Leonard, J. Lyng, M. Fallat   +13 more
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Improvement of Sickle Cell Disease Care Mitigates the Healthcare Utilization Induced by Increased Prevalence: Experience of a Tertiary Pediatric Center

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) has undergone major changes in the last decades. Its prevalence has been steadily increasing and numerous advances have been made in the management of the disease. However, the effect in real‐life setting of these major changes is unknown, particularly in a Canadian environment. Procedure We aimed to assess
Maude Cigna, Alexia Muresan, Estelle Lecluze, Karine Leduc, Nathalie Fournier, Maria Tamer, Jean‐François Delisle, Jeremi Charbonneau, Annie Viau, Jessica Darilus, Marie‐Joëlle Doré‐Bergeron, Valérie Arsenault, Evelyne Doyon‐Trottier, Stéphanie Forte, Nancy Robitaille, Yves Pastore, Thomas Pincez   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The SEE-IT Trial: emergency medical services Streaming Enabled Evaluation In Trauma: a feasibility randomised controlled trial

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Use of bystander video livestreaming from scene to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is becoming increasingly common to aid decision making about the resources required.
Cath Taylor, Lucie Ollis, Richard M. Lyon, Julia Williams, Simon S. Skene, Kate Bennett, Matthew Glover, Scott Munro, Craig Mortimer, the SEE-IT Trial Group   +9 more
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Evaluation of tools to assess psychological distress: how to measure psychological stress reactions in citizen responders– a systematic review

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019
Background Dispatched citizen responders are increasingly involved in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) resuscitation which can lead to severe stress.
Astrid Rolin Kragh, Fredrik Folke, Linn Andelius, Emma Slebsager Ries, Rasmus Vedby Rasmussen, Carolina Malta Hansen   +5 more
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EMS operation in a female restricted university, Saudi prospective

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021
This paper was written to explain the process and steps and to describe the experience with building a women-only operated collegiate emergency medical service (EMS) system in the largest women-only university in the world.
Wajdan Alassaf, Sameer Al Hamid, Osama Kentab, Abdullah Al Otaibi, Bandar Al Mufareh   +4 more
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Enhancing Emergency Response through Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medical Services Dispatching; a Letter to Editor

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2023
The emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) serves as a crucial link between individuals in need of emergency medical assistance and the emergency medical services (EMS) resource delivery system.
Payam Emami, Karim Javanmardi
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical reasoning in the emergency medical services: an integrative review

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
Clinical reasoning is the process of gathering and understanding information conducted by clinicians in the emergency medical services (EMS) so as to make informed decisions.
Ulf Andersson, Hanna Maurin Söderholm, Birgitta Wireklint Sundström, M. Andersson Hagiwara, Henrik Andersson   +4 more
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Opportunities for emergency medical services intervention to prevent opioid overdose mortality

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2020
Objectives The opioid crisis is a growing cause of mortality in the United States and may be mitigated by innovative approaches to identifying individuals at-risk of fatal opioid overdose.
Elizabeth H Barefoot, Julianne M. Cyr, J. Brice, M. Bachman, Jefferson G. Williams, J. Cabañas, K. Herbert   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Secretory Phospholipase A2 in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Hospitalized for Vaso‐Occlusive Pain Episodes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is an inflammatory mediator linked to acute chest syndrome (ACS) in sickle cell disease (SCD), a serious complication that can develop during an acute vaso‐occlusive pain episode (VOE). Plasma sPLA2 levels have been proposed as a potential biomarker for predicting ACS onset.
Rawan Korman, Maria Yasmine, Dunia Hatabah, Noor Alzraikat, Frank Harris, Lou Ann Brown, Satheesh Chonat, Nitya Bakshi, Chris A. Rees, Carlton Dampier, Claudia R. Morris   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-hospital management of acute stroke patients eligible for thrombolysis – an evaluation of ambulance on-scene time

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
Background Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability with effective treatment, including thrombolysis or thrombectomy, being time-critical for favourable outcomes. While door-to-needle time in hospital has been optimized for many years, little is
Nicolas Drenck, Søren Viereck, Josefine Stokholm Bækgaard, Karl Bang Christensen, Freddy Lippert, Fredrik Folke   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source