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Emergency Medicine Australasia
Prehospital trauma evaluation begins with the primary assessment of airway, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure. This is closely followed by vital signs and a secondary assessment. Key prehospital interventions include management and resuscitation according to the aforementioned principles with a focus on major hemorrhage control, airway ...
Christopher M. Wend +2 more
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Prehospital trauma evaluation begins with the primary assessment of airway, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure. This is closely followed by vital signs and a secondary assessment. Key prehospital interventions include management and resuscitation according to the aforementioned principles with a focus on major hemorrhage control, airway ...
Christopher M. Wend +2 more
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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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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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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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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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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 review articles identified from MEDLINE searches and bibliographies of identified articles.
S A, Spinler, P A, Mikhail
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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.
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Prehospital Assessment of Trauma
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2017The organization of prehospital care for trauma patients began in the military arena. At the urging of multiple stakeholders and providers, these lessons were applied to the civilian setting and emergency medical services were created across the nation.
Joshua, Brown +2 more
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Achieving prehospital analgesia
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2010We 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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European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1998
Prehospital care is a diverse and complex entity. Recent studies have begun to emphasize the importance of all aspects of care in the community, leading through to critical analysis of the process of prehospital care provision. This paper examines the various aspects of prehospital care and discusses the various elements which need to be considered to ...
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Prehospital care is a diverse and complex entity. Recent studies have begun to emphasize the importance of all aspects of care in the community, leading through to critical analysis of the process of prehospital care provision. This paper examines the various aspects of prehospital care and discusses the various elements which need to be considered to ...
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