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Provision of trauma teams in Scotland: a national survey [PDF]

, 2010
<b>Background and Aims:</b> Trauma is still the leading cause of mortality in the first four decades of life. Despite multiple reports on how trauma care could be improved in the UK, treatment has been shown to be inconsistent and of poor ...
Dignon, N., Hornsby, J., Puxty, A., Quasim, T.   +3 more
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Western Pacific regional engagement in the Emergency Medical Team Global Meeting 2024

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
This article describes the Western Pacific Region’s participation in the Emergency Medical Team Global Meeting held in November 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Erin Elizabeth Noste, Anthony Cook, Jan-Erik Larsen, Pierre-Yves Beauchemin, Vannda Kab, Dulamragchaa Buyanbaatar, Eystein Grusd, Sabrina Angela Tayo, Sean T Casey   +8 more
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Preliminary Implementation of the Next Generation Cannulation Simulator [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new ...
Abdallah, Omrane, Abducarim, Aiman, Alinier, Guillaume, Alsalemi, Abdullah, Amira, Abbes, Bensaali, Faycal, Fawzy Hassan, Ibrahim, Hssain, Ali Ait, Khurshid, Uzair, Mahmoud, Abdulrahman, Mahmud, Sakib, Mohamed, Elshaikh   +11 more
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Medical emergency teams: Is there M.E.R.I.T? [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie, 2007
Many deaths, cardiac arrests, and unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions are preceded by failure to recognize deteriorating vital signs1,2 or trigger intervention.3,4 Furthermore, survival following cardiovascular collapse is low, whereas early response likely improves survival.5,6 As such, in-hospital medical emergency teams (MET) were ...
Peter G. Brindley, Matthew Simmonds, R. T. Noel Gibney   +2 more
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Epidemiological study of trauma patients referred from Imam Reza trauma center to Shohada orthopedic center in Tabriz, Iran, during 2015 [PDF]

Journal of Analytical Research in Clinical Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Traumas are one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world, especially in developing countries. The economic and social burdens of the disease vastly affect both developed and developing countries in
Mahboub Pouraghaei, Alireza Sadeghpour, Payman Moharamzadeh, Alireza Ala, Mohammad Mahdi Bagheri Asl   +4 more
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Equipping Pacific emergency medical teams for self-sufficient health emergency response in remote and resource-limited island settings

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Problem: Pacific island countries and areas represent some of the most disaster-vulnerable locations in the world, facing a range of natural and infectious hazards along with incredibly challenging logistics and limited human resource pools.
Pierre-Yves Beauchemin, Erin E Noste, Jan-Erik Larsen, Sean T Casey   +3 more
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Advanced do‐not‐attempt‐resuscitation directives and emergency medical services for out‐of‐hospital cardiopulmonary arrest patients in Japan: a pilot study

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2021
Aims We investigated how do‐not‐attempt‐resuscitation (DNAR) orders are currently used, and we examined the emergency medical team responses for out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases in Japan. Methods The sample for this prospective study comprised
Takaaki Maruhashi, Marina Oi, Sadataka Asakuma, Rika Kotoh, Hirotaka Shibuya, Yutaro Kurihara, Yasushi Asari   +6 more
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Developing and maintaining health emergency response capacity: Palau’s national emergency medical team

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2023
Palau is a small island/large ocean nation in the Pacific that is vulnerable to natural or climate-related disasters. The national emergency medical team (EMT) was developed following a World Health Organization initiative to facilitate EMT training and ...
May Morag Ferguson, Sean T Casey, Wally Omengkar, Gaafar J Uherbelau, Terepkul Ngiraingas, Belinda Eungel   +5 more
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Emergency Medical team: an Entrapped Patient [PDF]

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2004
Motor vehicle collision is one leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Victims may be trapped in the deformed vehicles. Emergency medical team may be summoned to help in the extrication process. The principles of resuscitation in the pre-hospital phase are the same as in the in-hospital phase, but clinicians would face greater impediments to success
KC Shek, YK Mak, CW Kam, HH Yau
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The impact of training non-physician clinicians in Malawi on maternal and perinatal mortality : a cluster randomised controlled evaluation of the enhancing training and appropriate technologies for mothers and babies in Africa (ETATMBA) project [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Maternal mortality in much of sub-Saharan Africa is very high whereas there has been a steady decline in over the past 60 years in Europe. Perinatal mortality is 12 times higher than maternal mortality accounting for about 7 million neonatal
A Wilson, C McCord, C Pereira, C Pereira, C Pope, Chisale Mhango, D Ellard, David Davies, David Ellard, Doug Simkiss, E McAuliffe, F Mullan, Francis Kamwendo, G Chilopora, J Bryce, J Ritchie, Joseph Paul O’Hare, K Hill, Ministry of Health, National Statistical Office (NSO), and ICF Macro, Ngianga-bakwin Kandala, S Bergstrom, S Bradley, S Niermeyer, Siobhan Quenby, W Graham, W Graham, World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNFPA, and The World Bank   +27 more
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