Trends in demographic and employment characteristics of US emergency medical technicians and paramedics, 2011–2019 [PDF]
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022 Background Describing the US emergency medical services workforce is important to understand gaps in recruitment and retention and inform efforts to improve diversity.
Rebecca E. Cash +5 more
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Influence of work and family environment on burnout among emergency medical technicians [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2023 Objective Burnout among emergency medical technicians is a serious problem affecting delivery of quality emergency medical services. Although the repetitive nature of the job and lower education level requirements for technicians have been reported as ...
Junpei Haruna +8 more
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Rural emergency medical technician pre-hospital electrocardiogram transmission [PDF]
Rural and Remote Health, 2014 Emergent care of the acute heart attack patient continues to be at the forefront of quality and cost reduction strategies throughout the healthcare industry. Although the average cardiac door-to-balloon (D2B) times have decreased substantially over the past few years, there are still vast disparities found in D2B times in populations that reside in ...
A M, Powell, J M, Halon, J, Nelson
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Factors Affecting the Disaster Response Competency of Emergency Medical Technicians in South Korea [PDF]
Asian Nursing Research, 2019 Purpose: This study explored the factors influencing disaster response competency, that is, demographic and disaster-related characteristics, personal disaster (household and workplace) preparedness, disaster risk perception, and self-efficacy in ...
Dongchoon Uhm +4 more
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Quality of focused thoracic ultrasound performed by emergency medical technicians and paramedics in a prehospital setting: a feasibility study [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background In a prehospital setting, the severity of respiratory symptoms in patients calling for an ambulance differ. The initial evaluation, diagnosing, and thereby management can be challenging because respiratory symptoms can be caused by disease in ...
Pia Iben Pietersen +8 more
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Fitness Characteristics of Jordanian Emergency Medical Technicians. [PDF]
Adv J Emerg Med, 2019 Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) should be always prepared to deal with the stressful condition of treating patients with serious physical and emotional injuries. Given that EMTs consider safety the first priority, they must pay adequate attention to their own physical well-being and fitness to practice.The present study was conducted to analyze ...
Al-Yousef HNM, Awada W, Michailidou E.
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Domestic Violence among Emergency Medical Technicians [PDF]
Academic Emergency Medicine, 1999 S J, Weiss +4 more
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Teaching Tracheal Intubation to Emergency Medical Technicians
THE JOURNAL OF JAPAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL ANESTHESIA, 2006 救急救命士の気管挿管が認められ, 病院での気管挿管実習が始まった. 大阪労災病院で実習を修了した救急救命士12名の問題点として, 麻酔器を用いたマスク換気が十分にできず, 人形を用いた事前訓練による悪い癖がついているため喉頭鏡操作がうまくできないことがある. 気管挿管成功率は92±6%であり, 個人間で技術にばらつきがみられるが, 年齢と成功率には有意な相関はなかった. 合併症は咽頭痛が12.5%, 嗄声が19.1%にみられた. 指導医は, 救急救命士が気管挿管を行うことの意義をよく理解し, 気管挿管実習とは総合的な気道管理実習の一部であると認識しなければならない. まずマスク換気がしっかりできること, そして確実かつ合併症を起こさない挿管技術を指導することが重要である.
Takekazu Terai
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Comparison of the effects of group and individual reflection methods on self-regulated learning strategies and learning motivation among emergency medical technicians: a quasi-experimental study. [PDF]
BMC Emerg MedTabas ND +2 more
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Routine Carbon Monoxide Screening by Emergency Medical Technicians [PDF]
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2001 Abstract. Residential carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning represents a significant cause of unintentional morbidity and mortality in the United States. Screening by fire departments and utility companies is usually limited to instances in which there are symptoms of CO poisoning or there is activation of a home CO detector. Objectives: To determine whether
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