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Estimating the emergency care workforce in South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2021
Background: Emergency care is viewed as a fundamental human right in South Africa’s constitution. In the public sector, all emergency medical services (EMS) come under the Directorate: Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at the National ...
Ritika Tiwari, Raveen Naidoo, René English, Usuf Chikte   +3 more
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Factors affects the performance of red crescent paramedics, Bisha, Saudi Arabia

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Context: Saving lives is the ultimate purpose of the Red Crescent paramedics. It is crucial to enable safe, effective, and efficient performance of paramedics globally. In Saudi Arabia, the Red Crescent faces at least over 280,000 cases every year. Aims:
Sultan A Alsaeed, Ahmed S Alkarani
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Paramedics feelings and beliefs about COVID-19

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction The year 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Health services were overwhelmed by the demands for care. Paramedics were both the main actors in the fight and the victims of this pandemic.
H. El Kefi, K. Kefi, I. Bouzouita, W. Kabtni, A. Baatout, W. Krir, C. Bencheikh Brahim, A. Oumaya   +7 more
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Digital Cognitive Phenotyping for Differential Diagnosis and Monitoring in Neurological Conditions

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the utility, accessibility, and equivalence to supervised scales of online cognitive assessment in older individuals with cognitive impairment. Methods Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 31), idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH, n = 26), and traumatic brain injury (TBI, n = 23) completed online cognitive ...
Martina Del Giovane, Valentina Giunchiglia, Michael C. B. David, Magdalena A. Kolanko, William R. Trender, Peter J. Hellyer, Harmeena Kaur, David J. Sharp, Christopher Carswell, Paresh A. Malhotra, Adam Hampshire   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: Ambulance services have a vital role in the shift towards the delivery of health care outside hospitals, when this is better for patients, by offering alternatives to transfer to the emergency department.
Alison Porter, Anisha Badshah, Sarah Black, David Fitzpatrick, Robert Harris-Mayes, Saiful Islam, Matthew Jones, Mark Kingston, Yvette LaFlamme-Williams, Suzanne Mason, Katherine McNee, Heather Morgan, Zoe Morrison, Pauline Mountain, Henry Potts, Nigel Rees, Debbie Shaw, Niro Siriwardena, Helen Snooks, Rob Spaight, Victoria Williams   +20 more
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Prompting Paramedics: The Effect of Simulation on Paramedics’ Identification of Learning Objectives [PDF]

Cureus, 2019
<p>Introduction: Simulation has emerged as a useful educational tool for the continued training of paramedics. Practicing paramedics are thought to learn through reflecting on their own actions in practice, and it is hoped that simulation could spur similar reflection, which could then lead to practice change.
Hernandez, Jeremy, Jeong, Eric S, Chan, Teresa M   +2 more
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Paraborg: Paramedic Cyborg Insects for In Situ Emergency Drug‐Delivery

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work introduces Paraborg, a human‐supervised paramedic cyborg‐insect platform that combines controllable locomotion, onboard imaging, and an auto‐injection mechanism for in situ drug‐delivery. By demonstrating reliable navigation, target stabilization, injector launch, and multi‐insect teamwork, the study extends cyborg insects from survivor ...
H. Nhan Le, P. Thien Phan, Lachlan Fitzgerald, P. Ross McAree, T. Nho Do, T. Thang Vo‐Doan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distinct Neuropsychiatric Profiles Associated With 17p11.2 Deletions and RAI1 Variants in Smith–Magenis Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smith–Magenis syndrome (SMS) results from either a recurrent 17p11.2 deletion or pathogenic variants in the retinoic acid induced 1 gene (RAI1). While neurodevelopmental impairment and behavioral dysregulation are well recognized, systematic genotype‐stratified analyses across psychiatric domains remain limited.
Albin Blanc, Christophe Nemos, Céline Bonnet, Mathilde Renaud, Sandra Chapuis, Pauline Boiroux, Marie‐Noëlle Babinet, Caroline Demily   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Over the edge: Empirical evidence for the cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection maintains that larger neonates and smaller birth canals confer a positive selective advantage until labor becomes obstructed and vaginal delivery is no longer possible, eliciting an abrupt reduction in fitness.
Laura M. Watson, Pierre Frémondière, Kaspar Staub, Philipp Mitteroecker, Barbara Fischer, Martin Haeusler, Nicole M. Webb   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paramedics

Paramedics are skilled generalists who provide community-based health and social care to a diverse patient population. They work in a variety of settings and are increasingly integrated with interprofessional primary care teams. They can be a first point of contact, including at an early undifferentiated stage of health or social care needs, and they ...
Tavares, Walter, Kaas-Mason, Sanne, Cassista, Derek   +2 more
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