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Renal screening sonography—A comparative study in a Portuguese basic emergency service

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 8-16, March 2025.
Renal sonography screening aids in clinical decision‐making for patients with suspected renal colic. This study intends to compare the accuracy and pertinence of sonographic findings obtained by a sonographer in a Basic Emergency Service (BES) with that of radiologists at Referral Hospital (RH) in Portugal. Renal sonography screening was able to detect
Sérgio Miravent, Carmen Jiménez, Narciso Barbancho, Manuel Duarte Lobo, Teresa Figueiredo, Carla Gomes, Ion Ratusneac, João Mário Gonçalves, Corina Hasnas, Rui de Almeida   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2018
Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for understanding these effects.
Esther Murray, C. Krahé, D. Goodsman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prehospital point-of-care ultrasound: A transformative technology

SAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Point-of-care ultrasound at the bedside has evolved into an essential component of emergency patient care. Current evidence supports its use across a wide spectrum of medical and traumatic diseases in a variety of settings.
Colton B Amaral, Daniel C. Ralston, T. Becker   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound in Medicalized Prehospital Setting on Diagnostic Workup

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, EarlyView.
Objectives The primary objective of this study was to describe the indications for performing point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) in prehospital settings. The secondary objective was to assess its impact on the diagnostic workup when its use was initiated by the emergency physician (EP) dispatched with a mobile intensive care unit (MICU).
Frederic Balen, Andy Rouze, Xavier Dubucs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Recognition Technology: Improving Speed and Accuracy of Emergency Medical Services Documentation to Protect Patients [PDF]

, 2018
Because hospital errors, such as mistakes in documentation, cause one in six deaths each year in the United States, the accuracy of health records in the emergency medical services (EMS) must be improved.
Tran, Tan
core   +2 more sources

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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Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals (SAFER 1) trial protocol. Computerised on-scene decision support for emergency ambulance staff to assess and plan care for older people who have fallen: evaluation of costs and benefits using a pragmatic cluster randomised trial [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Many emergency ambulance calls are for older people who have fallen. As half of them are left at home, a community-based response may often be more appropriate than hospital attendance.
A Porter, A Porter, A Tversky, A Walker, AJ Carr, American Geriatrics Society. BGSaAAoOS, Antonio Sánchez, Bridget Wells, Ceri Phillips, D Chase, D Widiatmoko, DA Skelton, DC Cone, Department of Health, E Bergeron, F Sikron, G Nichol, GS Keene, H Snooks, H Snooks, H Snooks, H Snooks, H Snooks, Helen Snooks, HJ Graham, Ian Russell, Ioan Humphreys, J Dale, J Peconi, J Ware, Jacqueline Close, JC Close, JCT Close, Jeremy Dale, Judith Phillips, Julie Peconi, K Aoyagi, Kellogg International Work Group, LD Gillespie, M Cross, M Halter, ME Tinetti, MRC, MRC, Mushtaq Wani, National Institute for Clinical Excellence, P Scuffham, PJ Marks, R Dowie, RC Carey, Richard Whitfield, RJ Goldberg, Ronan Lyons, S Gates, S Lamb, Sarah Gaze, SJ Weiss, Stephen Roberts, Suzanne Mason, The Euroqol Group, Wai-Yee Cheung, Yasmin Merali   +61 more
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Artificial intelligence agents in orthopaedics: Concepts, capabilities and the road ahead

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in orthopaedics, yet current models are often limited to narrow, isolated tasks like analysing an X‐ray or predicting a single outcome. This paper introduces AI agents—a new class of AI systems designed to overcome these limitations. Unlike traditional AI, agents can autonomously manage complex,
Felix C. Oettl, James Pruneski, Balint Zsidai, Yinan Yu, Ting Cong, Robert Feldt, Philipp W. Winkler, Michael T. Hirschmann, Kristian Samuelsson, ESSKA Artificial Intelligence Working Group   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing care needs - a qualitative study on prehospital emergency nurses’ experiences of providing self-care advice and home referrals for frail older patients

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background The aging population has led to a growing number of frail older patients in prehospital emergency care. These patients often present with complex healthcare needs, posing significant challenges for prehospital emergency nurses (PENs) when ...
Gabriella Norberg Boysen, Elin Svensson, Caroline Heldtander, Johan Herlitz, Agnes Olander   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Auricular Perichondritis in the Cartilage Piercing Era

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
The demographics, clinical presentation, treatment, and complications of piercing‐induced auricular perichondritis (P‐IAP) and piercing‐free auricular perichondritis (P‐FAP) were studied. P‐IAP has different demographics, comorbidities, disease course, and microbiology compared to P‐FAP.
Omer J. Ungar, Noa Bursztyn, Shahaf Shilo, Ophir Handzel, Nidal Muhanna, Yahav Oron, Rani Abu Eta, Narin N. Carmel Neiderman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source