Time-Dependent Association Between Prehospital Blood Pressure and Outcomes in Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. [PDF]
Eur J NeurolThis study, involving 690 adult patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, showed that higher prehospital systolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure were independently associated with in‐hospital mortality. In addition, higher pulse pressure on arrival was also associated with mortality.
Lien CJ +9 more
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Causes of prehospital misinterpretations of ST elevation myocardial infarction [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives: To determine the causes of software misinterpretation of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) compared to clinically identified STEMI to identify opportunities to improve prehospital STEMI identification.
Bosson, Nichole +11 more
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Prehospital emergency care [PDF]
BMJ, 1996 Many of the people who die of trauma, heart attacks, or stroke die within the first hour. Many do not reach hospital. People have thus long recognised the need to improve the emergency services offered to patients before they reach hospital. But research on what happens at that critical time is hard to do.
M, Cooke, T, Hodgetts, R, Smith
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Clinical selection strategies to identify ischemic stroke patients with large anterior vessel occlusion: results from SITS-ISTR (Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke International Stroke Thrombolysis Registry) [PDF]
, 2017 Background and Purpose—The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) correlates with presence of large anterior vessel occlusion (LAVO). However, the application of the full NIHSS in the prehospital setting to select patients eligible for ...
Abdul-Rahim, Azmil H. +13 more
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Patients’ and emergency clinicians’ perceptions of improving pre-hospital pain management: a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The authors aimed to investigate patients' and practitioners' views and experiences of pre-hospital pain management to inform improvements in care and a patient-centred approach to treatment. Methods: This was a qualitative study involving a
Iqbal, Mohammad +2 more
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Prehospital neurological deterioration in stroke [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Patients with stroke can experience neurological deterioration in the prehospital setting. We evaluated patients with stroke to determine factors associated with prehospital neurological deterioration (PND).
Adeoye, Opeolu +13 more
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Development and pilot of clinical performance indicators for English ambulance services [PDF]
, 2010 Introduction: There is a compelling need to develop clinical performance indicators for ambulance services in order to move from indicators based primarily on response times and in light of the changing clinical demands on services.
Black, Sarah +5 more
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A systematic review of educational interventions aiming to reduce prehospital delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome [PDF]
, 2020 Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Interventions aiming at reducing prehospital delay (PHD) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) have yielded inconsistent findings. Therefore, we
Albarqouni, Loai +2 more
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Prehospital care in Indonesia [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2005 Indonesia is a huge, diverse, and developing country that until recently had no public ambulance service let alone a system of prehospital care. It commonly experiences many natural disasters, manmade conflicts, and violence as well as the daily emergencies seen worldwide.Hospitals of varying standards are widespread but have no system of emergency ...
E, Pitt, A, Pusponegoro
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Impact of prehospital antibiotic therapy differs depending on septic shock origin. [PDF]
J Intensive CareJouffroy R +10 more
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