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Prehospital-Initiated Thrombolysis

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 1997
OBJECTIVE: 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 review articles identified from MEDLINE searches and bibliographies of identified articles.
S A, Spinler, P A, Mikhail
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Prehospital Trauma Analgesia

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2008
This review aims to describe and evaluate current practices and controversies surrounding provision of pain relief in the prehospital setting. The review addresses analgesia indications and contraindications, frequency with which analgesics are used, and factors associated with improved prehospital analgesia care in Emergency Medical Services systems ...
Stephen H, Thomas, Sanjay, Shewakramani
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Removing the barriers to prehospital blood: A roadmap to success

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
This review describes the necessity, evolution, and current state of prehospital blood programs in the United States. Less than 1% of 9-1-1 ground emergency medical service agencies have been able to successfully implement prehospital blood transfusions ...
Randall M Schaefer   +6 more
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Prehospital Ground and Helicopter-Based Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) Reduce Barriers to ECPR: A GIS Model

Prehospital Emergency Care
Introduction Evidence suggests that Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) can improve survival rates for nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
Adam L. Gottula   +15 more
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Prehospital amputation

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2010
Prehospital surgical amputations are rarely necessary. This paper gives a historical perspective, the indications and contraindications for limb amputations, and details a simple technique for both surgeons and non-surgically qualified medical personnel.
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Achieving prehospital analgesia

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2010
We were dispatched to a road traffic collision which was 40 min from the nearest receiving hospital. On arrival, we noted an adult patient who had been extricated from their car after a T-bone collision. 1. Clear 2. Resp 32, Spo2 100% on 40% O2 3. BP 130/95 & pulse 100 4.
Nick, Castle, Raveen, Naidoo
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Prehospital Care

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
To improve patient outcome and reduce time at the scene, treatment protocols for specific injuries and rapid transport should be established with individual systems. These standards should be based on such parameters as history, mechanism of injury, physiologic status of the patient on arrival, triage criteria, and predicted transport times.
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Prehospital temperature control

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2008
We have increasingly noted that patients with traumatic injuries attended by the paramedic response unit of the Durban University of Technology, South Africa are hypothermic. Daytime winter temperatures in Kwa-Zulu Natal remain warm, but nightly coastal temperatures drop to 4°C and as low as freezing inland.
R, Owen, N, Castle
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Augmenting prehospital care

BMJ Military Health, 2020
Introduction The challenging environment of prehospital casualty care demands providers to make prompt decisions and to engage in lifesaving interventions, occasionally without them being adequately experienced. Telementoring based on augmented reality (AR) devices has the potential to decrease the decision time and
Yuval, Glick   +10 more
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Prehospital Fibrinolysis

Critical Pathways in Cardiology: A Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2006
Reperfusion therapy for ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes aims at early and complete recanalization of the infarct-related artery to salvage myocardium and improve both early and late clinical outcomes. Prehospital diagnosis of ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome can be made by electrocardiography with or without transtelephonic transmission, and ...
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