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Prehospital care and interfacility transfer of trauma patients before reaching the emergency of a level-1 trauma care center

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Management of trauma patients includes prevention, prehospital care, appropriate resuscitation at a hospital, definitive treatment, and rehabilitation.
Upendra Hansda, Tushar S Mishra, Nitish Topno, Sangeeta Sahoo, Sreshtaa Mohan, Sebastian Chakola   +5 more
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transportation Barriers to Healthcare in Adults 65+ in the Greater Burlington Area [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction. Missed appointments often lead to poorer health care outcomes for patients and pose a major economic burden on medical centers. Transportation is an obstacle to accessing medical care for elderly patients in Vermont and results in delayed ...
Hou, Wendy, Hou, Yiping, Hutchins, Jeanne, Kilgus, Britta, Persaud, Michael, Selig, Nicholas, Soderquist, Leah, Syed, Harris, Trieu, Vanessa, Wall, Danielle   +9 more
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag, Long Vu, Ritika Miryala, Jeffrey M. Albert, Molly McVoy, Siran M. Koroukian   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modified Early Warning Scores (MEWS) to support ambulance clinicians’ decisions to transport or treat at home [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction Modified Early Warning Scores (MEWS), calculated from patients’ vital signs, are used in hospital to identify patients who may benefit from admission or intensive care: higher MEWS indicates greater clinical risk.
Essam, Nadya, Gray, James, Knowles, Stacey, Mullineaux, David, Siriwardena, A. Niroshan, Windle, Karen   +5 more
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Predicting the Future Burden of Renal Replacement Therapy in Türkiye Using National Registry Data and Comparative Modeling Approaches

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül, Neriman Sıla Koç, Berrak Itır Aylı   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Awareness of Transportation Services in Lamoille County [PDF]

, 2019
This project was aimed to identify and address transportation needs of patients in Lamoille County to their medical appointments. A handout was created, which lists all of the transportation resources in the county that are available to patients.
Searles, Sienna
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Radiation safety assurance requirements during the transportation of patients with radiation contamination [PDF]

Саратовский научно-медицинский журнал, 2013
Transportation of patients with radioactive contamination may be followed by radiation effect to the medical staff and accompanying persons. The basic requirements for radiation safety during the transportation of patients from the radiation accident ...
Grachev M.I., Salenko Yu.A., Frolov G.P., Bogdanova LS.   +3 more
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Nurses’ workload in the inter-hospital transport of critically ill patients: a scoping review

Millenium, 2023
Introduction: Scientific and technological advances in healthcare have given rise to the need for inter-hospital transfers of critically ill patients due to the lack of support from specific specialties and technologies at some healthcare units.
Maria João Rente, Liliana Mota, Amaro Silva Pinto   +2 more
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Air Transportation of Critically Ill Patients

Общая реаниматология, 2008
During the Napoleonic wars, balloon evacuation of the wounded was the first to be made in the history when Paris was being defended. In the USA, casualty helicopters are being used in 20% of cases on evacuating the victims from the accident scene and in ...
E. P. Rodionov, I. V. Bratishchev
doaj   +1 more source