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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
To improve patient outcome and reduce time at the scene, treatment protocols for specific injuries and rapid transport should be established with individual systems. These standards should be based on such parameters as history, mechanism of injury, physiologic status of the patient on arrival, triage criteria, and predicted transport times.
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To improve patient outcome and reduce time at the scene, treatment protocols for specific injuries and rapid transport should be established with individual systems. These standards should be based on such parameters as history, mechanism of injury, physiologic status of the patient on arrival, triage criteria, and predicted transport times.
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European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1998
Prehospital care is a diverse and complex entity. Recent studies have begun to emphasize the importance of all aspects of care in the community, leading through to critical analysis of the process of prehospital care provision. This paper examines the various aspects of prehospital care and discusses the various elements which need to be considered to ...
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Prehospital care is a diverse and complex entity. Recent studies have begun to emphasize the importance of all aspects of care in the community, leading through to critical analysis of the process of prehospital care provision. This paper examines the various aspects of prehospital care and discusses the various elements which need to be considered to ...
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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) 2050: A Vision for the Future of Pediatric Prehospital Care
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2020The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released EMS Agenda 2050 in 2019. It places into context the problems of prehospital care of children today and projects where we want to be in 2050.
M. Gausche-Hill, S. Krug, J. Wright
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Organisation of prehospital care: the French experience.
European journal of emergency medicine, 2020France has 67 million inhabitants with an average age of 42 years [1]. France is divided into 101 departments: 96 in metropolitan France and five overseas. There is mainly one emergency medical communication centre (EMCC; Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente)
F. Javaudin, Y. Penverne, E. Montassier
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Surgical Clinics of North America
Prehospital trauma evaluation begins with the primary assessment of airway, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure. This is closely followed by vital signs and a secondary assessment. Key prehospital interventions include management and resuscitation according to the aforementioned principles with a focus on major hemorrhage control, airway ...
Christopher M. Wend +2 more
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Prehospital trauma evaluation begins with the primary assessment of airway, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure. This is closely followed by vital signs and a secondary assessment. Key prehospital interventions include management and resuscitation according to the aforementioned principles with a focus on major hemorrhage control, airway ...
Christopher M. Wend +2 more
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Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
BACKGROUND Prehospital resuscitation with blood products is gaining popularity for patients with traumatic hemorrhage. The MEDEVAC trial demonstrated a survival benefit exclusively among patients who received blood or plasma within 15 minutes of air ...
Juan Duchesne +15 more
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BACKGROUND Prehospital resuscitation with blood products is gaining popularity for patients with traumatic hemorrhage. The MEDEVAC trial demonstrated a survival benefit exclusively among patients who received blood or plasma within 15 minutes of air ...
Juan Duchesne +15 more
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Prehospital patients refusing care
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1988In summary, many of the complex medicolegal and ethical issues surrounding the prehospital patient who refuses all or part of the care offered by the EMS system have been reviewed. The best outcome can be achieved using a sliding scale of capacity and a conservative approach to treatment rather than releasing the patient at the scene.
B, Holroyd +4 more
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Inadequacy of prehospital emergency care
Critical Care Medicine, 1973A 1972 survey to evaluate the prehospital emergency care in the City of Pittsburgh revealed that only 38% of the urgent and critically ill patients were adeguately managed enroute to the hospital. Similar levels of Performance of prehospital emergency care probably exist in most urban, suburban and rural areas of the country.
D M, Benson, C, Stewart
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Medical Care Research and Review, 2020
Interest in high users of acute care continues to grow as health care organizations look to deliver cost-effective and high-quality care to patients. Since “super-utilizers” of acute care are responsible for disproportionately high health care spending ...
Samantha Iovan +3 more
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Interest in high users of acute care continues to grow as health care organizations look to deliver cost-effective and high-quality care to patients. Since “super-utilizers” of acute care are responsible for disproportionately high health care spending ...
Samantha Iovan +3 more
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Indicators to measure prehospital care quality: a scoping review
The JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 2018Objective: The purpose of this scoping review was to locate, examine and describe the literature on indicators used to measure prehospital care quality. Introduction: The performance of ambulance services and quality of prehospital care has traditionally
R. Pap +3 more
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