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The impact of a new regional air ambulance service on a large general hospital [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Helicopter air ambulance crews are influenced in their selection of the destination hospital for their patients by several factors including: distance from the scene; facilities, on site specialties, and senior cover of the receiving hospital;
Currie, A., Bleetman, A., Jenkinson, E.
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Features of Emergency Medical System calls that facilitate or inhibit Emergency Medical Dispatcher recognition that a patient is in, or at imminent risk of, cardiac arrest: A systematic mixed studies review

Resuscitation Plus, 2021
Aim: To identify and appraise evidence relating to the features of an Emergency Medicine System call interaction that enable, or inhibit, an Emergency Medical Dispatcher’s recognition that a patient is in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, or at imminent ...
Kim Kirby, Sarah Voss, Emma Bird, Jonathan Benger   +3 more
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Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals (SAFER 1) trial protocol. Computerised on-scene decision support for emergency ambulance staff to assess and plan care for older people who have fallen: evaluation of costs and benefits using a pragmatic cluster randomised trial [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Many emergency ambulance calls are for older people who have fallen. As half of them are left at home, a community-based response may often be more appropriate than hospital attendance.
Russell Ian, Lyons, Ronan, Peconi, Julie, Lyons, R., Wells, B., Humphreys, I., Whitfield, R, Humphreys, Ioan, Sánchez, A, Dale, J, Russell, I, Lyons, R, Mason Suzanne, Helen Snooks, Gaze, Sarah, Sánchez, Antonio, Dale, J., Snooks Helen, Wani, M, Roberts Stephen, Suzanne Mason, Dale, Jeremy, Dale Jeremy, Yasmin Merali, Ceri Phillips, Merali, Yasmin, Wells, B, Close Jacqueline, Sarah Gaze, Snooks, Helen, Russell, Ian, Whitfield, Richard, Lyons Ronan, Ivy Cheung, Stephen Roberts, Mason, Suzanne, Snooks, H., Roberts, Stephen, Julie Peconi, Whitfield, R., Jacqueline Close, Peconi, J., Cheung Wai-Yee, Humphreys, I, Merali Yasmin, Peconi Julie, Phillips, Ceri, Sánchez, A., Humphreys Ioan, Wells Bridget, Mason, S, Russell, Ian T., Phillips Ceri, Roberts, S., Wani, M., Close, Jacqueline, Phillips, J., Cheung, Wai-Yee, Merali, Y., Cheung, WY, Ian Russell, Phillips Judith, Wani Mushtaq, Gaze, S., Roberts, Stephen E., Merali, Y, Gaze, S, Close, J ; https://orcid.org/, Phillips, Judith, Phillips, C., Russell, I., Judith Phillips, Ronan Lyons, Whitfield Richard, Cheung, W.-Y., Close, J., Wells, Bridget, Mason, S., Peconi, J, Phillips, J, Sánchez Antonio, Antonio Sánchez, Richard Whitfield, Roberts, S, Ioan Humphreys, Jeremy Dale, Snooks, H, Bridget Wells, Wai-Yee Cheung, Gaze Sarah, Mushtaq Wani, Wani, Mushtaq, Phillips, C   +92 more
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Delirium in the elderly admitted to an emergency hospital service [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2022
ABSTRACT Objective: To check for the presence of delirium in the elderly entering the emergency room (ER) of the University Hospital of Santa Maria (HUSM) and their relationship with sociodemographic variables, reason and time of hospitalization, comorbidities, and death. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional exploratory study, which analyzed data
Ariel Eduardo Billig, Melissa Agostini Lampert, Renata Rojas Guerra, Natália Evaldt Steigleder   +3 more
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Early diagnosis of sepsis using an E-health application for a clinical early warning system outside of the intensive care unit: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Elderly and frail patients who are unable to call for help in case of vital distress can develop complications during their hospitalization. As a supplement to clinical monitoring by the nursing staff, these patients can also be monitored in ...
Daniel Aiham Ghazali, Philippe Kenway, Christophe Choquet, Enrique Casalino   +3 more
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ANALYSIS OF THE PROFILE OF THE PATIENT AS VICTIM OF MULTIPLE TRAUMA

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2012
This quantitative, exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was undertaken in the Emergency Department of a hospital specialized in treating multiple trauma. The aim was to analyze the profile of the patients affected by multiple trauma.
Katia Cilene Godinho Bertoncello, Cibele D’Avila Kramer Cavalcanti, Patrícia Ilha   +2 more
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Methamphetamine-Induced Cardiomyopathy (MACM) in a Middle-Aged Man; a Case Report

Emergency, 2017
The development of methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy (MACM) represents a severe complication of chronic methamphetamine abuse. MACM-induced irreversible structural and functional changes in the heart can eventually lead to decompensated heart ...
Zulfiqar Qutrio Baloch, Muhammad Hussain, Shabber Agha Abbas, Jorge L. Perez, Muhammad Ayyaz   +4 more
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HOSPITALIZATION IN A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY UNIT: EXPERIENCES

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2013
The aim was to describe the experience of family members of patients attended in an Emergency Unit in Fortaleza-Ceará regarding their collaboration in the activities, and the difficulties experienced.
Lívia Moreira Barros, Thiago Moura de Araújo, Maria Fabiana de Sena Neri, Enedina Soares, Joselany Áfio Caetano   +4 more
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Evaluation of Pre-School (0-6) Age Group Trauma Patients Etiology

Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014
Objective: Trauma is one of the most important reasons of death in the pediatric age group. The aim of this study is to analyze the relation between the trauma type, trauma time, and the way of arrival to the hospital and to examine the causes of ...
Bahri Atlı, Şevki Hakan Eren, Abuzer Coşkun, İlhan Korkmaz, Mehmet Eren   +4 more
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Utilization of emergency services in a community hospital

Saudi Medical Journal, 2002
Over utilization of emergency room services by patients with non-urgent complaints is a global problem. It results in a waste of resources, stress among the emergency room staff and an increase in waiting time for patients requiring attention. This study was carried out to establish the extent of inappropriate emergency room attendance in a Saudi ...
Saima, Siddiqui, Danny O, Ogbeide
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