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Testing quality indicators and proposing benchmarks for physician-staffed emergency medical services: a prospective Nordic multicentre study

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives A consensus study from 2017 developed 15 response-specific quality indicators (QIs) for physician-staffed emergency medical services (P-EMS). The aim of this study was to test these QIs for important characteristics in a real clinical setting.
Helge Haugland, Anna Olkinuora, Leif Rognås, David Ohlen, Andreas Krüger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does a physician’s base specialty influence on‑scene efficiency? A four‑year analysis of 11,315 missions from five Austrian physician‑staffed HEMS bases

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) in Austria operate under a uniform, high-accreditation framework: all physicians complete the same advanced prehospital curriculum, and dispatch decisions do not consider ...
Daniel Staribacher, Guenther C. Feigl, Dzmitry Kuzmin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in the Republic of Ireland

Air Medical Journal, 2023
Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) have formed an integral component of the Irish health care system for the past decade; yet, the factors leading their commencement, their evolutions over this time, and the current model of service delivery have not been widely published.
David Hennelly, Conor Deasy, Paul Jennings, Cathal O'Donnell, Siobhán Masterson   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Two Decades of Evolution in Abdominal Trauma Surgery: Trends, Outcomes, and Implications From an Australian Level 1 Trauma Centre

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Advances in imaging, non‐operative management, and endovascular techniques have reshaped abdominal trauma care, but their impact on operative trends in blunt‐dominant Australian trauma systems is incompletely described. Aims To describe temporal trends in operative and minimally invasive management of abdominal trauma at an ...
Michael Noonan, Ee‐Jun Ban, Frederick Huynh, Charles H. C. Pilgrim, Gerard S. Goh, Jeffrey W. Lai, Mark Fitzgerald   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Haemophilia Management in Natural Disasters—From Field to Consensus Report

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The earthquake in Türkiye had a profound impact on both haemophilia patients and healthcare services in the region. This experience highlighted the need for an effective action plan for patients with bleeding disorders in extraordinary situations.
Ahmet Muzaffer Demir, Selin Aytaç, Serap Karaman, Can Acıpayam, Muhlis Cem Ar, Bülent Antmen, Adalet Meral Güneş, Kaan Kavaklı, Hasan Kaya, Vahap Okan, Sayime Başak Koç Şenol, Ayşegül Ünüvar, Osman BülentZülfikar, Merve Altunbaş   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing equity and efficiency in the aerial firefighting resource allocation problem

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This study addresses the aerial firefighting resource allocation problem, formulated as the strategic prepositioning of a heterogeneous aerial firefighting fleet across capacity‐constrained airbases. A novel bi‐objective model is proposed that simultaneously optimizes efficiency (aggregate risk‐weighted accessibility) and equity (minimized ...
Konstantinos A. Tasias, George Nenes
wiley   +1 more source

Cerebral blood flow autoregulation during prehospital post-resuscitation care

Resuscitation Plus
Background: Successfully resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients often experience cerebral malperfusion, possibly due to impaired autoregulation.
Elina Heikkilä, Simo Mäkelä, Markus B. Skrifvars, Koen Ameloot, Anders Aneman, Annika Nelskylä, Susanne Ångerman, Milla Jousi, Jouni Nurmi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Staff, Patients, Residents and Families Perceive Mobilisation Alarms for Preventing Falls in Hospital and Aged Care: A Scoping Review

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To compare and contrast evidence investigating the use of mobilisation alarms in hospitals and residential aged care, exploring: (1) why and how mobilisation alarms are used; (2) attitudes of staff, patients, residents and family members towards mobilisation alarm use and effectiveness.
Kelly Stephen, Dai Pu, Jennifer Weller‐Newton, Ravi Manohar, Terry P. Haines   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Helicopter emergency medical services in Eastern Iran: a 4-year cross-sectional study of time intervals and mission profiles

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Air medical transport services play a significant role in emergency situations by providing timely transfers of critically ill patients to medical facilities.
Mohammad Hossein Esmaeilzadeh, Akram Nami, Razyeh Bajoulvand, Toktam Paykani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ANT‐Mobilities Framework: Transectionality and a Post‐Materialist Historical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ANT‐Mobilities framework synthesizes Actor‐Network Theory, the mobilities paradigm, and historical sociology to analyze complex social transformations. This paper develops the framework through empirical engagement with post‐disaster rehabilitation networks following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, demonstrating how crisis contexts generate ...
Farrukh A. Chishtie
wiley   +1 more source