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Are you suffering from a large arterial occlusion? Please raise your arm! [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Prehospital emergency care [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Hemostatic agents for prehospital hemorrhage control: a narrative review

open access: yesMilitary Medical Research, 2020
Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in combat trauma and the secondary cause of death in civilian trauma. A significant number of deaths due to hemorrhage occur before and in the first hour after hospital arrival. A literature search was
Henry T. Peng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Retrospective Study of Midazolam Protocol for Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction: Agitated patients in the prehospital setting pose challenges for both patient care and emergency medical services (EMS) provider safety. Midazolam is frequently used to control agitation in the emergency department setting; however, limited
Huebinger, Ryan M.   +7 more
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2022 Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Care

open access: yesPrehospital Emergency Care, 2022
Introduction Multiple national organizations and federal agencies have promoted the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based guidelines (EBGs) for prehospital care.
C. Martin-Gill   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Risk of Cancer from CT Scans and Other Sources of Low-Dose Radiation: A Critical Appraisal of Methodologic Quality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction: Concern exists that radiation exposure from computerized tomography (CT) will cause thousands of malignancies. Other experts share the same perspective regarding the risk from additional sources of low-dose ionizing radiation ...
Doss, Mohan, PhD   +3 more
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Panamerican Trauma Society: The first three decades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Panamerican Trauma Society was born 30 years ago with the mission of improving trauma care in the Americas by exchange of ideas and concepts and expanding knowledge of trauma and acute illness.
Aboutanos, Michel, Ivatury, Rao R.
core   +2 more sources

Association of Prehospital Plasma Transfusion With Survival in Trauma Patients With Hemorrhagic Shock When Transport Times Are Longer Than 20 Minutes: A Post Hoc Analysis of the PAMPer and COMBAT Clinical Trials.

open access: yesJAMA Surgery, 2019
Importance Both military and civilian clinical practice guidelines include early plasma transfusion to achieve a plasma to red cell ratio approaching 1:1 to 1:2. However, it was not known how early plasma should be given for optimal benefit.
A. Pusateri   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prehospital Intubation of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Dutch Nationwide Trauma Registry Analysis

open access: yesPrehospital Emergency Care, 2022
Objective Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are commonly intubated during prehospital treatment despite a lack of evidence that this is beneficial.
S. M. Bossers   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leading interagency planning and collaboration in mass gatherings: public health and safety in the 2012 London Olympics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
OBJECTIVES: Planning and implementing public health initiatives in mass gatherings such as the Olympic Games pose unique challenges for interorganizational collaboration, which involves interaction among multiple and diverse agencies.
Bistaraki, A., Kyratsis, Y., McKeown, E.
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