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Adaptation of the Intrahospital Transport Safety Scale into Turkish

Forbes Tıp Dergisi, 2022
Objective: The aim of this study is to adapt the Intrahospital Transfer Safety Scale into Turkish. Methods: It is a methodological study. One hundred twenty-nine surgical intensive care nurses participated in the study between May and June 2021.
Özlem SOYER ER, Aliye OKGÜN ALCAN
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Air medical transportation in India: Our experience

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2016
Background and Aims: Long distance air travel for medical needs is on the increase worldwide. The condition of some patients necessitates specially modified aircraft, and monitoring and interventions during transport by trained medical personnel.
Himanshu Khurana, Yatin Mehta, Sunil Dubey   +2 more
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Evaluation of timeliness and models of transporting critically ill children for intensive care: the DEPICT mixed-methods study

Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 2022
Background: Centralisation of paediatric intensive care has increased the need for specialist critical care transport teams to transfer sick children from general hospitals to tertiary centres.
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Sarah Seaton, Ruth Evans, Victoria Barber, Emma Hudson, Enoch Kung, Matthew Entwistle, Anna Pearce, Patrick Davies, Will Marriage, Paul Mouncey, Eithne Polke, Fatemah Rajah, Nicholas Hudson, Robert Darnell, Elizabeth Draper, Jo Wray, Stephen Morris, Christina Pagel   +18 more
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Flying with a Safety Net: Use of REBOA to Enable Safe Transfer to a Level 1 Trauma Center

Journal of Endovascular Resuscitation and Trauma Management, 2022
Background: Using Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) during air and ground transport requires coordination among the responding clinical team, transport team, and receiving surgical team. Here we describe the development of
Robert Weir, Jeffery Lee, Shelly Almroth, Jodie Taylor   +3 more
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Postural workloads on paramedics during patient transport

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2018
Paramedics perform physically demanding tasks during patient transport in daily routine and therefore suffer more often from musculoskeletal ailments, mainly low back pain, than any other profession.
Verjans Mark, Schütt Andrea, Schleer Philipp, Struck Detlef, Radermacher Klaus   +4 more
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Development of a Stair Climbing Mechanism for a Novel Mechatronic Transport Aid: Preliminary Results

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2018
Emergency medical service (EMS) is an essential part of health care with the main task to transport and monitor patients. However, this duty often becomes a challenge due to obstacles - especially stairs - on the way.
Schleer Philipp, Kinzius Max, Verjans Mark, Kähler Ferdinand, Radermacher Klaus   +4 more
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Testing the Usability of a Software for Geospatial and Transport Modeling in Acute Stroke Service Planning

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Introduction: Geographic visualizations have been used to understand disease since the nineteenth century. We developed a software that creates simple visualizations which can be used as a decision support tool for pre-hospital acute stroke ...
Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Michael J. Francis, Mayank Goyal, Mayank Goyal, Mayank Goyal, Michael D. Hill, Michael D. Hill, Michael D. Hill, Michael D. Hill, Michael D. Hill, Noreen Kamal   +11 more
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Optimal Transport Scenario With Rotary Air Transport for Access to Endovascular Therapy Considering Patient Outcomes and Cost: A Modeling Study

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Background and Purpose: For an ischemic stroke patient whose onset occurs outside of the catchment area of a hospital that is capable of Endovascular Treatment (EVT) and whose stroke is suspected to be caused by a large vessel occlusion (LVO), a ...
Ashlee Wheaton, Patrick T. Fok, Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Peter Vanberkel, David Volders, Noreen Kamal, Noreen Kamal   +6 more
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Transport of the trauma patient [PDF]

British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2015
The transport of the seriously injured patient is associated with risk and requires particular expertise and attention. The aim of this review is to provide a historical overview of transport services available to trauma patients in the UK, describe the various transport platforms that are used, identify risks from a system and disease perspective and ...
G, Davies, A, Chesters
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Oxidative Stress-Induced Axon Fragmentation Is a Consequence of Reduced Axonal Transport in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia SPAST Patient Neurons

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and paralysis of the lower limbs. Autosomal dominant mutations in SPAST gene account for ∼40% of adult-onset patients.
Gautam Wali, Gautam Wali, Erandhi Liyanage, Nicholas F. Blair, Nicholas F. Blair, Ratneswary Sutharsan, Ratneswary Sutharsan, Jin-Sung Park, Jin-Sung Park, Alan Mackay-Sim, Alan Mackay-Sim, Carolyn M. Sue, Carolyn M. Sue   +12 more
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