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Preparedness and attitudes towards medical emergencies in the dental office among Polish dentists.

International Dental Journal, 2019
BACKGROUND Medical emergencies in dental offices are considered a problem in most countries owing to dentists' concerns about emergency preparedness, practical skills, lifesaving equipment and staff availability.
J. Smereka, M. Aluchna, Alicja Aluchna, Ł. Szarpak   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

International recommendations for outpatient palliative care and prehospital palliative emergencies - a prospective questionnaire-based investigation [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: To determine the international recommendations and current practices for the treatment and prevention of palliative emergencies. The primary goal of the study was to gather information from experts on their nationally practised concepts ...
Bartels, Utz E., Elhabash, Saleem, Graf, Bernhard, Hanekop, Gerd G., Lassen, Christoph L., Taghavi Fallahpour, Mahmoud, Wiese, Christoph Hr.   +6 more
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Penalties for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations Involving Obstetrical Emergencies [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was intended to prevent inadequate, delayed, or denied treatment of emergent conditions by emergency departments (ED). While controversies exist regarding the scope of the law, there is
Arora, Sanjay, Burner, Elizabeth, Menchine, Michael, Terp, Sophie, Wang, Brandon   +4 more
core  

Design, validation and dissemination of an undergraduate assessment tool using SimMan® in simulated medical emergencies [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Increasingly, medical students are being taught acute medicine using whole-body simulator manikins. Aim: We aimed to design, validate and make widely available two simple assessment tools to be used with Laerdal SimMan (R) for final year ...
Allen, Maggie E., Fraser, Ian, Kirkcaldy, Jo, Macdougall, Colin F., Paskins, Zoe, Peile, Ed   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Management of In-Flight Medical Emergencies: Are Senior Medical Students Prepared to Respond to this Community Need?

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014
Introduction: In-flight medical emergencies on commercial aircraft are common in both domestic and international flights. We hypothesized that fourth-year medical students feel inadequately prepared to lend assistance during in-flight medical emergencies.
Robert J. Katzer, David Duong, Matthew Weber, Amy Memmer, Ian Buchanan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mobihealth: mobile health services based on body area networks [PDF]

, 2006
In this chapter we describe the concept of MobiHealth and the approach developed during the MobiHealth project (MobiHealth, 2002). The concept was to bring together the technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs), wireless broadband communications and ...
Bults, R.G.A., Dokovski, N.T., Halteren, A.T. van, Herzog, R., Jones, V.M., Konstantas, D., Koprinkov, G.T., Widya, I.A.   +7 more
core   +5 more sources

Working as an EMT [PDF]

, 2010
The work of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) is often the difference between life and death for a patient. EMTs respond to various medical emergencies including car accidents, heart attacks, slips and falls of the elderly, childbirth, and gunshot ...
Mietlicki, Robert
core   +1 more source

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation simulation-based training: methods, drawbacks and a novel solution [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Patients under the error-prone and complication-burdened extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are looked after by a highly trained, multidisciplinary team.
Abbes Amira, Abdullah Alsalemi, Alsalemi A, Brindley PG, Fayçal Bensaali, Guillaume Alinier, Lansdowne W, Lazzeri C, Mohammed Al Disi, Morris RW, Yahya Alhomsi   +10 more
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Prognostic Impact of Treatment Modalities, Including Targeted Compartmental Radio‐Immunotherapy, in a Cohort of Neuroblastoma Patients With CNS Metastases at Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez, Anna Felip‐Badia, Marina Caballero‐Bellon, Nazaret Sanchez‐Sierra, Alicia Castañeda, Moira Garraus, Maite Gorostegui, Margarida Simão‐Rafael, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Marta Perez‐Somarriba, Salvador Mañe, Mariana Cecilia Planells, Sara Perez‐Jaume, Jaume Mora   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency Management Readiness of Pakistani Dentists at Public Sector Teaching Hospitals

Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry
Background: Medical emergencies during dental treatment need to be appropriately equipped to deal with multiple chronic diseases in medically compromised patients. A well-prepared dental team can prevent stress-related medical emergencies. The objective
Syed Jaffar Abbas Zaidi, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Shakeel Kazmi, Muhtada Ahmad, Ashar Afaq, Afsheen Mansoor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source