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Critical Care, 2020 Purpose Hemoglobin (Hb) transfusion thresholds are established in intensive care units. A restrictive transfusion threshold (Hb 70–75 g/l) is recommended in septic patients, and a liberal transfusion threshold (Hb 90 g/l) for cardiogenic shock.
Jonas Scheuzger +5 more
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Who does what in prehospital critical care? An analysis of competencies of paramedics, critical care paramedics and prehospital physicians [PDF]
, 2014 © 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Introduction: Emergency medical services in the UK are facing the challenge of responding to an increasing number of calls, often for non-emergency care, while also providing critical care to the few ...
Von Vopelius-Feldt, Johannes +1 more
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Coronavirus lockdown and its impact on mental health of general population
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction On March, Tunisian government imposed lockdown measures on cities to contain the COVID19 outbreak. Media coverage, social distancing, quarantine and isolation led to a global atmosphere of anxiety and depression. Objectives To assess the
M. Dhemaid +5 more
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Ketamine in prehospital care [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2004 The relief of pain is an essential component of prehospital care and, when required is usually administered on completion of the primary survey. For simple analgesia morphine sulphate titrated to the clinical response and preceded by an antiemetic is usually effective, for example, in the relief of pain in chest trauma or myocardial infarction.
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Sublingual microcirculation: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019 Introduction Sublingual microcirculation monitoring is suitable for bedside use in critically ill patients. We present a case in which severely impaired sublingual microcirculation was the first alarming sign of an early deterioration of the patient’s ...
Jonas D. Scheuzger +3 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background In acute ischemic stroke, conjugated eye deviation (CED) is an evident sign of cortical ischemia and large vessel occlusion (LVO). We aimed to determine if an emergency dispatcher can recognise LVO stroke during an emergency call by asking the
Pauli E. T. Vuorinen +5 more
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Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020 Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest survival continues to be dismal with the only recent improvement being that of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E‐CPR) or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), augmented by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...
Jon Marinaro +5 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022 Background Following the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, reports emerged on decreasing emergency department (ED) visits in many countries. Patients experiencing chest pain was no exception.
Mikkel Grande +4 more
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Mental health challenges faced by young medical residents fighting COVID-19 in tunisia
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction COVID-19 pandemic affected not only physical health of individuals, and communities but also their mental health worldwide. Young physicians, who were providing care for patients during the outbreak in a global atmosphere of stress ...
M. Dhemaid +5 more
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