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In-flight Medical Emergencies [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013 Research and data regarding in-flight medical emergencies during commercial air travel are lacking. Although volunteer medical professionals are often called upon to assist, there are no guidelines or best practices to guide their actions. This paper reviews the literature quantifying and categorizing in-flight medical incidents, discusses the unique ...
Chandra, Amit, Conry, Shauna
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Medical emergencies in medical imaging [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2012 Sending inpatients to the medical imaging department is sometimes tantamount to discharging them from hospital for hours at a time. Consider, for example, a patient with an unexplained acute abdomen where an urgent CT scan is indicated. Patient transport, logistical delays and the procedure itself may lead to gaps in monitoring vital signs, providing ...
Donald A. Redelmeier, John A Staples
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The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network: a history of multicenter collaboration in the United States. [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, we review the history and progress of a large multicenter research network pertaining to emergency medical services for children. We describe the history, organization, infrastructure, and research agenda of the Pediatric Emergency Care ...
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2010 Most emergencies in Goa arise due to road traffic accidents and drowning, which have been compounded by the rise in number of recorded accidents in 2007 to be above 4000. It is believed that 11 people meet with an accident on Goa's roads every day and this is expected to rise by 10% by next year.
Saddichha, Sahoo, Saxena, Mukul Kumar
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Medical emergency motorcycle – is it useful in a Scandinavian Emergency Medical Service? [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2009 Medical emergency motorcycles (MEM) can be used in time-critical conditions like cardiac arrest and multi-traumatized patients in an attempt to reduce the response time. Other potential benefits with MEM are more efficient patient evaluation, reduction of unnecessary EMS car ambulance missions and reduced cost.
Bjørn Bjelland +2 more
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Emergency medical dispatch recognition, clinical intervention and outcome of patients in traumatic cardiac arrest from major trauma : an observational study [PDF]
, 2018 © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to describe the demographics of reported traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA ...
de Coverly, Richard +4 more
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Amputation in emergency situations: indications, techniques and Médecins Sans Frontières France's experience in Haiti [PDF]
, 2012 PURPOSE: The decision to amputate is always difficult but becomes even harder in emergency situations, which usually present extra complicating factors.
D Pukljak +4 more
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The Medical Emergency Team [PDF]
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 1995 The concept of a Medical Emergency Team was developed in order to rapidly identify and manage seriously ill patients at risk of cardiopulmonary arrest and other high-risk conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the utilization and outcome of Medical Emergency Team interventions over a one-year period at a teaching hospital in South Western ...
Anna Lee +3 more
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BMJ, 1976 A survey carried out over five periods between 1973 and 1975 to study the mode of referral of emergency medical patients to a district general hospital showed that, out of a total of 2511 patients, 51% referred themselves, 40-8% were referred by general practitioners, and only 4-7% by doctors employed by the emergency treatment service.
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What If I Do Not Match? Scrambling for a Spot and Going Outside the Match. [PDF]
, 2020 Matching into emergency medicine (EM) is getting progressively more competitive. Applicants must therefore prepare for the possibility of not matching and, accordingly, be ready to participate in the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP).
Cheaito, Mohamad Ali +7 more
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