Towards definitions of time-sensitive conditions in prehospital care [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background Prehospital care has changed in recent decades. Advanced assessments and decisions are made early in the care chain. Patient assessments form the basis of a decision relating to prehospital treatment and the level of care.
Kristoffer Wibring +5 more
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Clinical Research in Prehospital Care: Current and Future Challenges. [PDF]
Clin Pract, 2023 Prehospital care plays a critical role in improving patient outcomes, particularly in cases of time-sensitive emergencies such as trauma, cardiac failure, stroke, bleeding, breathing difficulties, systemic infections, etc. In recent years, there has been
Cimino J, Braun C.
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Elevating Healthcare: Rapid Literature Review on Drone Applications for Streamlining Disaster Management and Prehospital Care in Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2023 Saudi Arabia’s health sector faces pressing challenges in disaster and prehospital care delivery, such as prolonged response times, limited access to remote areas, and strained medical resources.
Al-Wathinani AM +8 more
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Research progress of selective brain cooling methods in the prehospital care for stroke patients: A narrative review. [PDF]
Brain Circ, 2023 Over the past four decades, therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has long been suggested as a promising neuroprotective treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS).
Chen X, An H, Wu D, Ji X.
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Prehospital critical care is associated with increased survival in adult trauma patients in Scotland [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2020 Background Scotland has three prehospital critical care teams (PHCCTs) providing enhanced care support to a usually paramedic-delivered ambulance service.
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A National Survey of Prehospital Care Services of United Kingdom for Use, Governance and Perception of Prehospital Point of Care Ultrasound. [PDF]
POCUS J, 2022 Introduction: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has become a common practice in prehospital care over the last 10 years. There is lack of literature on its use and governance structure in United Kingdom (UK) prehospital care services.
Naeem S +8 more
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How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review. [PDF]
Int J Qual Health Care, 2021 Background As compared to other domains of healthcare, little is known about patient safety incidents (PSIs) in prehospital care. The aims of our systematic review were to identify how the prevalence and level of harm associated with PSIs in prehospital ...
O'connor P +4 more
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Identification of new demands regarding prehospital care based on 35,188 missions in 2018 [PDF]
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Population ageing and increased prevalence of chronic diseases result in the emergence of new demands in prehospital care. The prehospital system is facing an increase of cases without acute threat to life (so-called “non-urgent”), which ...
Séverine Vuilleumier +3 more
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Patients' lived experiences of breathlessness prior to prehospital care - A phenomenological study. [PDF]
Nurs Open, 2022 Kauppi W +4 more
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Contribution of the 5G Smart First-Aid Care Platform to Achieving High-Quality Prehospital Care
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 China is gradually becoming an aging society, and the necessity for prehospital first-aid care is increasing. However, there is a long-term information blind spot in traditional prehospital first-aid care. Fifth-generation (5G) network has the
Tao Xiang +3 more
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