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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background The prehospital care of patients with sepsis are commonly performed by the emergency medical services. These patients may be critically ill and have high in-hospital mortality rates.
Agnes Olander +5 more
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Are you suffering from a large arterial occlusion? Please raise your arm! [PDF]
, 2018 Background and purpose: Triage tools to identify candidates for thrombectomy are of utmost importance in acute stroke. No prognostic tool has yet gained any widespread use.
Abdul-Rahim, Azmil H. +11 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives This study aimed to compare hospital admission and 30-day mortality between patients assessed by the prehospital assessment unit (PAU) and patients not assessed by the PAU.Design This was a matched cohort study.Setting This study was conducted
Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg +7 more
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Optimization of Nonambulant Mass Casualty Decontamination Protocols as Part of an Initial or Specialist Operational Response to Chemical Incidents [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis.© 2018 Robert P. Chilcott, Hannah Mitchell, Hazem Matar. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License ...
Chilcott, Robert P. +2 more
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2019-nCoV: The Identify-Isolate-Inform (3I) Tool Applied to a Novel Emerging Coronavirus [PDF]
, 2020 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is an emerging infectious disease closely related to MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV that was first reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019.
Bey, Christian K. +2 more
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Prehospital and retrieval medicine [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2007 I would like to clarify some points in the useful review of retrieval medicine provided by Shirley and Hearns.1 Their opening sentence cites an article regarding the provision of prehospital critical care and retrieval services.2 In that article, Dr Bevan and I argued that “immediate care” (previously defined as the provision of skilled medical help at
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Pre-hospital cardiac arrest: a call for moral agency in modern medical practice
BMC Medical EthicsThis article features an exemplary case of a terminally ill man with a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order who is subject to a resuscitation attempt after suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
Christina Louise Joerck +7 more
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Long‐Term Quality of Life in 1777 Persons With Hodgkin Lymphoma and 6166 Matched Comparators
American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Survival has improved substantially for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), but long‐term quality of life (QoL) remains incompletely understood. This was a Danish, nationwide, cross‐sectional study of QoL among persons with a diagnosis of HL matched 1:10 to general population comparators.
Sissel Johanne Godtfredsen +13 more
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Ambulance traffic accidents and their impact on prehospital personnel: a mixed-methods study
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency MedicineObjective Prehospital personnel operate in environments with a significant risk of on-duty traffic accidents. We investigated the prevalence and characteristics of on-duty ambulance traffic accidents and explored how prehospital personnel perceive and ...
Marianne Winther +12 more
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Subject Retention in Prehospital Stroke Research Using a Telephone-Based Physician-Investigator Driven Enrollment Method. [PDF]
, 2019 Background and purposeSubject retention into clinical trials is vital, and prehospital enrollment may be associated with higher rates of subject withdrawal than more traditional methods of enrollment.
Conwit, Robin +10 more
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