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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1984
The past two decades have been a period of increased concern over the improvement of prehospital emergency medical care. Training of basic and advanced EMTs to a level of professionalism that includes a distinct body of knowledge and the use of assessment and management skills is only one component of the prehospital system.
L M, Jacobs, L D, Berrizbeitia
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The past two decades have been a period of increased concern over the improvement of prehospital emergency medical care. Training of basic and advanced EMTs to a level of professionalism that includes a distinct body of knowledge and the use of assessment and management skills is only one component of the prehospital system.
L M, Jacobs, L D, Berrizbeitia
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Prehospital-Initiated Thrombolysis
Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 1997OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of prehospital-initiated thrombolysis in decreasing the mortality rate due to acute myocardial infarction. DATA SOURCES: English-language clinical studies, abstracts, and ...
S A, Spinler, P A, Mikhail
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Controversies in Prehospital Care
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1990Many controversies exist in prehospital care. The most visible from a physiologic point of view are what is done in the field, how thorough medical accountability should be, and what amount of education is required for EMTs to perform their jobs correctly. The bottom line is good patient care. Such care cannot be achieved without the proper ingredients.
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Prehospital treatment of hypothermia
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2001This article considers several issues regarding cold stress, development of hypothermia, and prehospital care of the hypothermic patient. Advice is given on the use of clinical impressions and functional characteristics to determine the level of hypothermia. Response to cold water immersion is characterized as short-term (cold shock response), midterm (
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Safety of prehospital nitroglycerin
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994To define changes in vital signs and cardiac rhythm in prehospital patients given sublingual nitroglycerin.A five-month prospective observational study with nitroglycerin administration as the independent variable.Five independent advanced life support services.Three hundred prehospital patients who were given nitroglycerin by advanced life support ...
R, Wuerz +4 more
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Options in Prehospital analgesia
Emergency Medicine, 2002AbstractBackground: Prehospital analgesia options for paramedics have been limited due to the difficulty in achieving safe and effective pain relief without compromising transportation to hospital. The present paper identifies the analgesia methods currently available in the prehospital setting so as to evaluate the various options and highlight areas ...
Meredith L, Borland +2 more
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Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2014
Background: The global burden of stroke is immense, both in medical and economic terms. With the aging population and the ongoing industrialization of the third world, stroke prevalence is expected to increase and will have a major effect on national health expenditures.
Yperzeele, Laetitia +7 more
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Background: The global burden of stroke is immense, both in medical and economic terms. With the aging population and the ongoing industrialization of the third world, stroke prevalence is expected to increase and will have a major effect on national health expenditures.
Yperzeele, Laetitia +7 more
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Prehospital resuscitation practices: A survey of prehospital providers
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1999Numerous factors affect decision making in the prehospital provision of resuscitative care. This study was undertaken to determine current practices involved in the initiation, continuation and termination of resuscitative efforts, and the impact of advance directives, in the prehospital resuscitation setting.
CA Marco, RM Schears
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2017
Prehospital care providers are tasked with the delivery of time-sensitive care, and emergency medical services (EMS) systems must match patients to appropriate clinical resources. Modern systems are uniquely positioned to recognize and treat patients with sepsis. Interventions such as administration of intravenous fluid and transporting patients to the
Jerrilyn, Jones, Benjamin J, Lawner
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Prehospital care providers are tasked with the delivery of time-sensitive care, and emergency medical services (EMS) systems must match patients to appropriate clinical resources. Modern systems are uniquely positioned to recognize and treat patients with sepsis. Interventions such as administration of intravenous fluid and transporting patients to the
Jerrilyn, Jones, Benjamin J, Lawner
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Interest of prehospital lactate for the indication of prehospital hydroxocobalamin administration
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022Aurélien, Renard, Nicolas, Cazes
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