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Prehospital Emergency Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997
Prehospital Emergency Care premiered with the January/March 1997 issue as the official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) and the National Association of State EMS Directors. The stated mission of this journal is "to foster and disseminate EMS literature of the highest quality." The editor-in-chief also has also noted that ...
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[Documentation of prehospital emergency care].

Lakartidningen, 2023
The scientific documentation of prehospital emergency care in Sweden is slowly expanding. The first thesis on the value of a mobile coronary care unit was defended in 1982. Since then, at least 106 theses have been defended at 15 educational institutes in Sweden.
Johan, Herlitz, Birgitta, Wireklint Sundström, Magnus, Andersson Hagiwara, Peter, Lundgren, Glenn, Larsson, Carl, Magnusson, Kristoffer, Wibring, Christer, Axelsson   +7 more
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Prehospital paediatric emergency care: paediatric triage

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2009
The practice of triage was conceived during the Napoleonic wars, with the aim of salvaging those soldiers whose injuries were readily treatable, returning them to the battlefield at the earliest opportunity. Literally, the word triage means "to sieve" or "to sort" (French trier), and those earlier battlefield principles have been refined and expanded ...
J M, Sandell, I K, Maconochie, F, Jewkes
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Advanced prehospital care for pediatric emergencies

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985
During an 18-month study period, the mobile intensive care unit (MICU) in Jerusalem responded to 307 pediatric emergencies, representing 5% of the total MICU case load. The most common medical problems were seizures, diagnosed in 100 cases (32%), and conditions related to trauma, diagnosed in 77 cases (23%).
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The Impact of Emergency Medical Helicopters on Prehospital Care

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1990
Emergency medical helicopter services have grown exponentially over the past seventeen years. These services offer rapid transport by flight crews to tertiary care centers with a higher level of medical capabilities. An impact because of helicopters on survival has been well-documented for trauma patients.
S G, Gabram, L M, Jacobs
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First Aid and Emergency Care Training; its Effect on Prehospital Emergency Care

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, 1975
The effect of first aid and emergency care training programs on the delivery of prehospital care was evaluated by screening 862 emergency department patients in a suburban Pittsburgh hospital. Patients were categorized according to their conditions and prehospital attendants according to their training.
Kathie Cronin, Don M. Benson, Kenneth Rogers   +2 more
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Prehospital Care of Neurologic Emergencies

2014
Prehospital Care of Neurologic Emergencies is a reliable and definitive resource for emergency medical services personnel at multiple levels: physicians, paramedics, nurses and others who encounter these critically ill patients. This focused and succinct book addresses the management of a wide range of neurologic emergencies, including traumatic brain ...
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Quantifying the Scanty Science of Prehospital Emergency Care

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1997
Research can produce false-positive results just as can diagnostic tests. Uncontrolled studies have a specificity of only 11%, versus 88% for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which have been designed to minimize the bias of investigators toward a positive outcome.
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Prehospital care: The future of emergency medical services

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1991
Most prehospital interventions, both pharmacologic and procedural, have been accepted without clear demonstrations of their abilities to impact patient outcomes or without clear indications that withholding or delaying the intervention pending arrival at a definitive emergency department will adversely affect the patient.
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[Obesity in prehospital emergency care].

Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS, 2013
The prevalence of obesity has increased steadily in recent years. Obese people often suffer from diseases which acute decompensation requires a prompt prehospital therapy. The Emergency Medical Service will be confronted with difficulties in clinical diagnostic, therapy and especially with a delayed management of rescue and transport.
Patricia, Kruska, Stefan, Kappus, Thoralf, Kerner   +2 more
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