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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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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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Utility of Fear Severity and Individual Resilience Scoring as a Surge Capacity, Triage Management Tool during Large-Scale, Bio-event Disasters [PDF]
, 2006 Threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious disease pandemics may result in fear related consequences. Fear based signs and symptoms, if left undetected and untreated, may be extremely debilitating and lead to chronic problems with risk of permanent ...
Bracha, H. Stefan +1 more
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Under-triage of older trauma patients in prehospital care: a systematic review
European Geriatric Medicine, 2021 The systematic review aimed to assess the under-triage rate for older trauma patients in prehospital care and its impact on their outcomes. Older trauma patients were significantly under-triaged in prehospital care and the benefits of triaging these ...
Abdullah Alshibani +2 more
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Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Pain Management: Recommendations
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2021 This project sought to develop evidence-based guidelines for the administration of analgesics for moderate to severe pain by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians based on a separate, previously published, systematic review of the comparative ...
G. Lindbeck +17 more
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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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Response to: Best practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia & advanced airway management
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019 The European HEMS and Air ambulance Committee’s Medical working group recently published Best Practice advice on pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia and advanced airway management. We believe that this initiative is important.
Jostein S. Hagemo +4 more
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Academic Emergency Medicine, 2021 The prehospital phase is critical in ensuring that stroke treatment is delivered quickly and is a major source of time delay. This study sought to identify and examine prehospital stroke workflow optimizations (PSWOs) and their impact on improving health
Seemub Zaman Chowdhury +2 more
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Focal seizures during simulated driving: A pilot study
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Cars are increasingly equipped with technology that can be used to analyze driver behavior and alertness, often referred to as driver monitoring systems (DMS). Although initially mainly used to track drivers' attention, DMS are now expanding in the hope of detecting additional forms of driver impairment that may jeopardize driving, such as ...
Emma Nilsson +4 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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