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Targeting the vulnerable: A critical analysis of helicopter transport for obstetric emergencies in Nepal

Journal of Critical Public Health
In tandem with national efforts to develop a system of pre-hospital care via ground ambulance services, leading private hospitals in Nepal are competing to institute air ambulances, or helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS).
Jan Brunson, Suman Tamrakar
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Assessing safety climate in prehospital settings: testing psychometric properties of a common structural model in a cross-sectional and prospective study

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Little research exists on patient safety climate in the prehospital context. The purpose of this article is to test and validate a safety climate measurement model for the prehospital environment, and to explore and develop a theoretical model
Leif Inge K. Sørskår, Espen Olsen, Eirik B. Abrahamsen, Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik, Håkon B. Abrahamsen   +4 more
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Rotorcraft-based emergency medical services in the Caribbean Basin [PDF]

There is a pressing need for improved health care in general and emergency health care in particular throughout the Caribbean Basin. The importance of rotorcraft as an integral part of the needed system of emergency medical care in the region was ...
Alton, L. R., Smith, R. W.
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Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Patient Transport Safe at Night?

Air Medical Journal, 2014
Dutch helicopter emergency medical services are available 24/7. Working without daylight brings additional challenges, both in patient care and in-flight operation. We retrospectively evaluated the safety of this nighttime helicopter transportation of patients.Our helicopter emergency medical service database was reviewed for all patients transported ...
Peters, J.H., van Wageningen, B., van Wageningen, B., Hoogerwerf, N., Biert, J.   +4 more
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]

, 1988
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1267/thumbnail ...

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Challenge Patient Dispatching in Mass Casualty Incidents [PDF]

, 2012
Efficient management of mass casualty incidents is complex, since regular emergency medical services struc-tures have to be switched to a temporary “disaster mode” involving additional operational and tactical struc-tures.
Adler, Christine, Donner, Anton, Greiner-Mai, Thomas, Rothkrantz, L.   +3 more
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]

, 1987
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1256/thumbnail ...

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The prevalence of hypotension and hypoxaemia in the prehospital setting of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg, Gauteng [PDF]

, 2013
Includes abstract.
Stassen, Willem
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Comparing population and incident data for optimal air ambulance base locations in Norway [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Helicopter emergency medical services are important in many health care systems. Norway has a nationwide physician manned air ambulance service servicing a country with large geographical variations in population density and incident ...
Aardal, K. (Karen), Berg, P.L. (Pieter) van den, Essen, J.T. (Theresia) van, Lindner, T. (Thomas), Røislien, J. (Jo), Uleberg, O. (Oddvar), Zakariassen, E. (Erik)   +6 more
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A national multi centre pre-hospital ECPR stepped wedge study; design and rationale of the ON-SCENE study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background The likelihood of return of spontaneous circulation with conventional advanced life support is known to have an exponential decline and therefore neurological outcome after 20 min in patients with a cardiac arrest is poor.
Samir Ali, Xavier Moors, Hans van Schuppen, Lars Mommers, Ellen Weelink, Christiaan L. Meuwese, Merijn Kant, Judith van den Brule, Carlos Elzo Kraemer, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, Sakir Akin, Annemiek Oude Lansink-Hartgring, Erik Scholten, Luuk Otterspoor, Jesse de Metz, Thijs Delnoij, Esther M. M. van Lieshout, Robert-Jan Houmes, Dennis den Hartog, Diederik Gommers, Dinis Dos Reis Miranda   +20 more
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