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Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists

Anaesthesia, Volume 81, Issue 8, Page 1132-1147, August 2026.
Summary Introduction Prehospital emergency anaesthesia is recognised as a high‐risk clinical intervention. These updated guidelines consider changes in prehospital practice and parallel changes in the practice of in‐hospital emergency anaesthesia, with the aim of encouraging standardised safe anaesthetic practice in a challenging clinical area.
David Lockey, Celestine Weegenaar, Imran Ahmad, Pascale Avery, Philip Cowburn, Richard M. Lyon, Giles Nordmann, Andrew J. Pountney, Cosmo F. M. Scurr, Matthew D. Wiles   +9 more
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The Challenges of Backsourcing

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 427-445, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Public sector outsourcing sometimes ends in unexpected termination, forcing authorities to engage in backsourcing. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges posed by unexpected terminations of sourcing contracts in the public sector and analyze how actual practices in these situations diverge from theoretical expectations in the ...
Johan Berlin, Eric Carlström, Magnus Jansson, David Karlsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Injuries With Dementia: Double Whammy?

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 7, Page 575-582, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Nearly 40% of US farmers are over 65 years old. Some emerging evidence links agricultural occupational exposure to increased dementia risk. However, little is known about dementia and injury outcomes in agricultural settings. Methods We employed data from the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Programs Participant Use File (
Kanika Arora, Jonathan Davis, Lila B. Basnet, Julie Bobitt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-hospital blood product transfusion and calcium management in the United Kingdom: a multicentre service evaluation

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Hypocalcaemia and hypercalcaemia are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in trauma patients. Although in-hospital calcium replacement protocols target normocalcaemia, UK pre-hospital services lack standardised calcium monitoring ...
Anna Forbes, Chris Simpson, Jo Griggs, Jack Barrett, Richard Lyon, Caroline Leech, Pre-HOspital Trainee Operated Research Network (PHOTON) and Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Successful prehospital ECMO in drowning resuscitation after prolonged submersion

Resuscitation Plus
An 18-year-old drowning victim was successfully resuscitated using prehospital veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). Despite 24 min of submersion in water with a surface temperature of 15 °C, the patient was cannulated on-scene and
Jeroen Seesink, Wietske van der Wielen, Dinis Dos Reis Miranda, Xavier J.R. Moors   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Noise exposure during prehospital emergency physicians work on Mobile Emergency Care Units and Helicopter Emergency Medical Services

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017
Background Prehospital personnel are at risk of occupational hearing loss due to high noise exposure. The aim of the study was to establish an overview of noise exposure during emergency responses in Mobile Emergency Care Units (MECU), ambulances and ...
Mads Christian Tofte Hansen, Jesper Hvass Schmidt, Anne C. Brøchner, Jakob Kjersgaard Johansen, Stine Zwisler, Søren Mikkelsen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the barriers to air medical services in accidents and disasters in Iran and suggesting solutions: a qualitative study

BMC Research Notes
Objective Today, air medical services play a key part in providing emergency medical services in accidents and disasters in many countries, including Iran.
Mahmoudreza Peyravi, Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, Mahmoud Hatami, Mostafa Bijani, Payam Shojaei   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A descriptive analysis of endotracheal intubation in a South African Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) exists to supplement the operations of ground-based emergency care providers, mainly in high acuity cases. One of the important procedures frequently carried out by HEMS personnel is endotracheal
Willem Stassen, Alastair Lithgow, Craig Wylie, Christopher Stein   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inhaled methoxyflurane for fracture reduction in prehospital extremity trauma: an observational review of HEMS clinical practice

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Prehospital manipulation and reduction (M&R) of traumatic limb injuries may be required before transfer to restore alignment, reduce pain and bleeding, and limit secondary neurovascular compromise.
Joe Dowsing, James Price, Kate Lachowycz, Ed B. G. Barnard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Definning an helicopter emergency medical services

, 2022
Helicopter Emergency Medical Services are complementary services to the emergency medical service of developed countries that allow to give medical assistance to remote areas and assist patients who are in a critical situation to be transferred to the hospital as soon as possible providing them with medicalised care on board.
openaire   +1 more source