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Predictors of Demand for Emergency Prehospital Care: An Australian Study

open access: yesPrehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1999
AbstractIntroduction:Determining the predictors of demand for emergency prehospital care can assist ambulance services in undertaking policy and planning activities.Hypothesis:Demand for prehospital care can be explained by demographic, health status, and economic determinants.Methods:The study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the ...
Clark, M. J.   +4 more
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Prehospital Emergency Trauma Care and Management

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2012
Prehospital care of the trauma patient is continuing to evolve; however, the principles of airway maintenance, hemorrhage control, and appropriate resuscitative maneuvers remain central to the role of the emergency medical care provider. Recent changes in the regulations for research in emergency settings will allow randomized trials to proceed to test
Jeffrey D. Kerby
exaly   +3 more sources

Inadequacy of prehospital emergency care

Critical Care Medicine, 1973
A 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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Prehospital emergency care

Baillière's Clinical Anaesthesiology, 1992
Summary The involvement of physicians, and especially anaesthetists, in prehospital care is very different from one EMS system to another. In this chapter we mainly compare the US EMS system, where the role of the physician is limited, and the French SAMU system, which was created and is run by anaesthetists. Despite major differences in the bases of
Pierre A. Carli, Genevieve Barrier
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Prehospital Advanced Emergency Care

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1978
Effective prehospital treatment of the severely injured and acutely ill by an Advanced Emergency Care system may change symptoms and signs by the time patients arrive at the hospital. To provide optimal care, physicians must appreciate the capabilities and limitations of the EMT-paramedic.
W F, McManus, C, Aprahamian, J C, Darin
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Prehospital emergency care

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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EMS Safety and Prehospital Emergency Care of Animals

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2021
AbstractEmergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel frequently encounter animals in situations ranging from injured law enforcement canines (LEK9s) to pets with smoke inhalation injury. In recent years, several US states have enacted laws that legally allow EMS personnel to provide basic emergency care to certain animals.
Katharyn T. Kryda   +2 more
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Prehospital and emergency department burn care

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2004
Burn-injured patients have special needs in the prehospital and emergency department settings. This article addresses the nursing priorities in prehospital and emergency department care.
Scott, DeBoer, Annemarie, O'Connor
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Prehospital and Emergency Care

2015
Disease or illness can strike at any time. If the condition is acute, or if the injury is life-threatening or limb-threatening, immediate care is needed. These time-dependent conditions that affect both adults and children may be due to medical, surgical, or obstetric conditions. They may result from acute injuries or illnesses or from exacerbations of
Amardeep Thind   +5 more
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Prehospital emergency care

2018
Emergency treatment is an independent area of medicine. The main direction of emergency treatment is the relief of dangerous and severe manifestations of the disease in most cases with a lack of time and little information about the patient, which forces the doctors to carry out the treatment syndromically.
Vladimir Davydov   +3 more
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