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Emergency medical dispatch recognition, clinical intervention and outcome of patients in traumatic cardiac arrest from major trauma : an observational study [PDF]

, 2018
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to describe the demographics of reported traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA ...
de Coverly, Richard, Jeyanathan, J, Lyon, Richard M., Prentice, C., Williams, Julia   +4 more
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Mortality in Severe Burns: A 32‐Year Analysis (1993–2024) From a National Referral Center in the Dominican Republic

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Severe burns represent a major public health burden in middle‐income countries. This study describes the epidemiological profile and identifies independent prognostic factors for in‐hospital mortality in patients with severe burns treated at the national referral center of the Dominican Republic over a 32‐year period.
José Enrique Cueva‐Ramírez, Rosario Valdez, Rosy Tejada, Gregorio Gonzalez‐Alcaide, Jose‐Manuel Ramos‐Rincon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a SUMO-Based Simulator for Optimal Location of Emergency Vehicles in the Emergency Medical Systems

Emergency Medicine International
The response time between an accident happening and an ambulance reaching the incident place is a very delicate and crucial time. The time elapsed between those two events could be the determining factor of whether the injured person gets to live or die.
Antoni Mínguez, Volkan Tozan, Monica El-Assaad, Silvia Solà-Muñoz, Youcef Azeli, Luis J. de la Cruz Llopis, Xavier Jiménez-Fàbrega, Carles Galup, Raimon Dalmau, Mónica Aguilar Igartua   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of intraosseous and intravenous access with patient outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Scientific Reports, 2023
Here we report the results of a study on the association between drug delivery via intravenous route or intraosseous route in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Frederik Nancke Nilsson, Søren Bie-Bogh, Louise Milling, Peter Martin Hansen, Helena Pedersen, Erika F. Christensen, Jens Stubager Knudsen, Helle Collatz Christensen, Fredrik Folke, David Høen-Beck, Ulla Væggemose, Anne Craveiro Brøchner, Søren Mikkelsen   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh: Preparedness, Prehospital Care, and Lessons Learned [PDF]

, 2020
On Saturday, October 27, 2018, a man with anti-Semitic motivations entered Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three handguns, opening fire upon worshippers. Eventually
Murray, Keith, Roth, Ronald N., Tobias, Adam Z., Weiss, Leonard S., Yealy, Donald M.   +4 more
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Patient and clinician factors associated with prehospital pain treatment and outcomes: cross sectional study [PDF]

, 2018
Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Objective: We aimed to identify how patient (age, sex, condition) and paramedic factors (sex, role) affected prehospital analgesic administration and pain alleviation.
,, Asghar, Zahid, Foster, Theresa, Lord, Bill, Phung, Viet-Hai, Pocock, Helen, Siriwardena, A. Niroshan, Snooks, Helen, Williams, Julia   +8 more
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Distinct clinical clusters of paediatric patients with status epilepticus: Retrospective cohort study

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Large Swiss cohort of paediatric status epilepticus demonstrates that treatment delay (> 60 min) directly contributes to morbidity. Machine‐learning analysis of routine clinical data identifies three distinct patient clusters: febrile status epilepticus, severe para‐infectious status epilepticus, and status epilepticus in children with known epilepsy ...
Richard J Burman, Anne Steinberg, Jamie Norris, Giorgio Selmin, Tommaso Fedele, Richard E Rosch, Georgia Ramantani   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criteria codes for unrecognized stroke/TIA patients by Emergency Medical Services dispatchers in Copenhagen, Denmark

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Early diagnosis is essential in stroke treatment. Medical dispatchers play a key role in ensuring quick assessment, transport, and treatment of stroke patients by recognizing stroke symptoms.
Philip Busch Andreasen, Jonathan Wenstrup, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Christina Kruuse, Helle Collatz Christensen   +4 more
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Ethical challenges experienced by prehospital emergency personnel: a practice-based model of analysis

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Ethical challenges constitute an inseparable part of daily decision-making processes in all areas of healthcare. In prehospital emergency medicine, decision-making commonly takes place in everyday life, under time pressure, with limited ...
Henriette Bruun, Louise Milling, Søren Mikkelsen, Lotte Huniche   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Presence of a pre-hospital enhanced care team reduces on scene time and improves triage compliance for stab trauma [PDF]

, 2019
© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in ...
Aldred, Duncan, Cowley, Alan, Crabb, Richard, Crouch, Paul, Durham, Mark, Heywood, Adam, Lyon, Richard, McBride, Andy, Williams, Julia   +8 more
core   +2 more sources