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Improving Bariatric Patient Transport and Care with Simulation [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014
Introduction: Obesity is prevalent in the United States. Obese patients have physiologic differences from non-obese individuals. Not only does transport and maintenance of these patients require use of specialized equipment, but it also requires a ...
Brad D. Gable, Aimee K. Gardner, Dan H. Celik, Mary Colleen Bhalla, Rami A. Ahmed   +4 more
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MRSA prevalence among patient transport staff in Hamburg [PDF]

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2018
Introduction: Patient transport employees frequently come into contact with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and therefore are at a greater risk of infection than the general population.
Schablon, Anja, Kleinmüller, Olaf, Nienhaus, Albert, Peters, Claudia   +3 more
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Cabin temperature during prehospital patient transport – a prospective observational study [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Few studies have investigated the patient compartment temperatures during ambulance missions or its relation to admission hypothermia. Still hypothermia is a known risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity in both trauma and disease ...
Tuva Svendsen, Inger Lund-Kordahl, Knut Fredriksen   +2 more
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Enhancing Hospital Efficiency and Patient Care: Real-Time Tracking and Data-Driven Dispatch in Patient Transport [PDF]

Sensors
Inefficient patient transport in hospitals often leads to delays, overworked staff, and suboptimal resource utilization, ultimately impacting patient care.
Su-Wen Huang, Shyue-Yow Chiou, Rung-Ching Chen, Chayanon Sub-r-pa   +3 more
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Safe patient transport for COVID-19 [PDF]

Critical Care, 2020
Mei Fong Liew, Wen Ting Siow, Ying Wei Yau, Kay Choong See   +3 more
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Intrahospital critical patient transport from the emergency department [PDF]

Archives of Medical Science, 2018
Omer Salt, Metin Akpınar, Mustafa Burak Sayhan, Fatma Betül Örs, Polat Durukan, Necmi Baykan, Cemil Kavalcı   +6 more
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COVID-19: Transport Operation from an Endemic Area

Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021
Aim:Turkish Government launched an operation to transport the Turks living in Wuhan, China to Turkey because of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemia.
İshak Şan, Semih Korkut, Eren Usul, Burak Bekgöz, Afşin Emre Kayıpmaz   +4 more
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Validation of the Decontamination of a Specialist Transport System for Patients with High Consequence Infectious Diseases

Microorganisms, 2021
When transferring highly infective patients to specialist hospitals, safe systems of work minimise the risk to healthcare staff. The EpiShuttle is a patient transport system that was developed to fit into an air ambulance.
Claire Bailey, Catherine Makison-Booth, Jayne Farrant, Alan Beswick, John Chewins, Michael Eimstad, Fridtjof Heyerdahl, Brian Crook   +7 more
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Coming and going to a surgical center, the evaluation of risks in transport of patients in a university hospital in Brazil

Bioscience Journal, 2020
The patient’s in-hospital transport is an activity that must be performed with safety and quality and involves considerable risks, especially for surgical patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the adequacy or not of transport of surgical
Sinara Ferreira Naves, Clesnan Mendes-Rodrigues, Rosângela de Oliveira Felice, Fabíola Alves Gomes   +3 more
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Covid-19 Patient Transport: A Literature Review

South East Asia Nursing Research, 2022
The pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) is tremendously affecting health care services worldwide due to the nature of this virus which is highly infectious with a high rate of transmission.
Siti Aisah, Tri Nurhidayati, Dewi Setyawati, Mohammad Gita Muntoha   +3 more
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