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Development of prehospital emergency care in Singapore. [PDF]

Int J Emerg Med
AbstractThis review paper describes the development of the pre-hospital system in Singapore from the pre-war days. Every country’s prehospital community needs a deep understanding of how they developed over the years, factors that played a part, and the aspirations their community and government have set for this. This can guide future evolution of the
Nadarajan GD, Jalil NABM, White AE, Hock MOE, Venkataraman A.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Prehospital Emergency Care in Shanghai: Present and Future [PDF]

Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012
In Shanghai, prehospital emergency medical services are provided by the public Ambulance Services. The 60th anniversary of the local Ambulance Services is a good opportunity to provide an overview of the current trends in prehospital emergency medical care in Shanghai.In this report, the features of Shanghai prehospital emergency medical care are ...
Li Gui
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Promotion of prehospital emergency care through clinical decision support systems: opportunities and challenges [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019
Clinical decision support systems are interactive computer systems for situational decision making and can improve decision efficiency and safety of care. We investigated the role of these systems in enhancing prehospital care.
Azadeh Bashiri, Behrouz Alizadeh Savareh, Marjan Ghazisaeedi   +2 more
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Prehospital emergency care [PDF]

BMJ, 1996
Many of the people who die of trauma, heart attacks, or stroke die within the first hour. Many do not reach hospital. People have thus long recognised the need to improve the emergency services offered to patients before they reach hospital. But research on what happens at that critical time is hard to do.
M, Cooke, T, Hodgetts, R, Smith
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External validation and insights about the calibration of the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest (RACA) score

Resuscitation Plus, 2022
Background: The return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after cardiac arrest (RACA) score was developed as a tool to predict ROSC probability (pROSC) based on easily available information and it could be useful to compare the performances of different ...
Lorenzo Gamberini, Chiara Natalia Tartivita, Martina Guarnera, Davide Allegri, Simone Baroncini, Tommaso Scquizzato, Marco Tartaglione, Carlo Alberto Mazzoli, Valentina Chiarini, Cosimo Picoco, Carlo Coniglio, Federico Semeraro, Giovanni Gordini   +12 more
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A predictive ambulance dispatch algorithm to the scene of a motor vehicle crash: the search for optimal over and under triage rates

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Calls for emergency medical assistance at the scene of a motor vehicle crash (MVC) substantially contribute to the demand on ambulance services.
Ellen Ceklic, Hideo Tohira, Stephen Ball, Elizabeth Brown, Deon Brink, Paul Bailey, Rudolph Brits, Judith Finn   +7 more
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Emergency medical dispatchers’ ability to identify large vessel occlusion stroke during emergency calls

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, Jyrki P. J. Ollikainen, Pasi A. Ketola, Riikka-Liisa K. Vuorinen, Piritta A. Setälä, Sanna E. Hoppu   +5 more
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Prediction of a time-sensitive condition among patients with dizziness assessed by the emergency medical services

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background Dizziness is a relatively common symptom among patients who call for the emergency medical services (EMS). Aim To identify factors of importance for the early identification of a time-sensitive condition behind the symptom of dizziness among ...
C. Magnusson, J. Gärskog, E. Lökholm, J. Stenström, R. Wetter, C. Axelsson, M. Andersson Hagiwara, N. Packendorff, K. Jood, T. Karlsson, J. Herlitz   +10 more
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Implementation of a National 5‐Year Plan for Prehospital Emergency Care in Singapore and Impact on Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes From 2011 to 2016 [PDF]

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020
Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Audrey L Blewer, Win Wah   +2 more
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Trauma Simulation in Prehospital Emergency Care

Journal of Trauma Nursing, 2018
Well-educated ambulance staff is a prerequisite for high-quality prehospital trauma care. The aim of this study was to examine how nurses in the ambulance service experienced participation in trauma simulation. Sixty-one nurses, working in an emergency ambulance service, performed simulated trauma care on four different occasions and afterward rated ...
Abelsson, Anna, Lundberg, Lars
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