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Pediatric Emergencies in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: A National Population-Based Cohort Study From Denmark.

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2022
STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the diagnostic pattern, level of severity of illness or injuries, and mortality among children for whom a physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) was dispatched.
V. Nielsen, N. Bruun, M. B. Søvsø, T. Kløjgård, H. Lossius, L. Bender, S. Mikkelsen, Mona Tarpgaard, J. A. Petersen, E. Christensen   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists

Anaesthesia, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +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 Estimated Cost-Effectiveness of Physician-Staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Compared to Ground-Based Emergency Medical Services in Finland.

Air Medical Journal
OBJECTIVE Because the unit cost of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) is higher than traditional ground-based emergency medical services (EMS), it is important to further investigate the impact of HEMS. The aim of this study was to evaluate the
Axel Ackermann, Jukka Pappinen, J. Nurmi, H. Nordquist, P. Torkki   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Characteristics of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) dispatch cancellations during a six-year period in a Dutch HEMS region

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background For decades, Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) contribute greatly to prehospital patient care by performing advanced medical interventions on-scene.
E. Berkeveld, T. C. N. Sierkstra, P. Schober, L. Schwarte, M. Terra, M. D. de Leeuw, F. W. Bloemers, G. Giannakópoulos   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical Partnering ‐ When Should Host Nation Patients Not be Directed to Coalition Military Hospitals?

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case commentary explores whether and when it is justifiable NOT to direct injured or ill host nation patients to international coalition military hospitals that are better equipped than host nation hospitals to meet patients' health needs in order to ensure sufficient patients for success in clinical partnering. The case discusses Medical
Martin Bricknell
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Implications of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Isfahan Province [PDF]

, 2023
Golrokh Atighechian, Hossein Dehghan, Saeed Karimi   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

The Challenges of Backsourcing

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
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