Advanced trauma life support
Compliance to advanced trauma life support protocols in adult trauma patients in the acute setting
... of trauma resuscitations, while the overall compliance rate for ATLS was only 53% in the study by Spanjersberg et ...during trauma resuscitation led to a significantly higher compliance rate for primary and ...
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Needs assessment of emergency medical and rescue services in Abuja/Nigeria and environs
... in advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS), which refers to a range of clinical interventions for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest, stroke and other life- threatening medical ...
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Iatrogenic salt water drowning and the hazards of a high central venous pressure
... volumes of fluid are often infused in the early stages of sepsis. Traditionally, patients undergoing surgery have been managed with a liberal fluid strategy in which fluids are administered to fill the non-existent ...
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The development and features of the Spanish prehospital advanced triage method (META) for mass casualty incidents
... severe trauma patient clinical evaluation and advanced trauma life support ...severe trauma patient field triage to detect po- tential surgical life threatening ...
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Outcomes of polytrauma patients with diabetes mellitus.
... ATLS: advanced trauma life support; BP: blood pressure; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DM: diabetes mellitus; DVT: deep vein thrombosis; GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale; ICU: intensive ...
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The impact of severe traumatic brain injury on a novel base deficit- based classification of hypovolemic shock
... ATLS: Advanced Trauma Life Support; BD: Base deficit; DGU: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (German Trauma Society); ED: Emergency Department; FFP: Fresh frozen plasma; GCS: ...
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Ultrasonography in trauma: a nation-wide cross-sectional investigation
... for trauma facilities to implement FAST, eFAST, or other ultrasound examinations as standard of care for trau- matized ...the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) protocol, FAST scanning ...
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Qualitative evaluation of trauma delays in road traffic injury patients in Maringá, Brazil
... one Advanced Life Support (ALS) unit team and 4 Basic Life Support (BLS) ...or advanced prehospital training and many feel uncomfortable with the prehospital environment in the ...
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Pre-hospital triage performance after standardized trauma courses
... fifty-three advanced Trauma Life Support course participants were compared to 175 Pre- Hospital Trauma Life Support course ...Pre-Hospital Trauma Life ...
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Recurring septic shock in a patient with blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma: how mandatory is source control surgery?: a case report
... A 42-year-old white man without pre-existing comorbid- ities was transferred to our unit on 8 September 2014. He was involved in a car crash on 30 August 2014 with traumatic hemorrhagic shock and an ISS of 28. Shock ...
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Protocol of the DENIM study: a Delphi-procedure on the identification of trauma patients in need of care by physician-staffed Mobile Medical Teams in the Netherlands
... prehospital trauma care is provided by emergency medical services ...prehospital trauma life support ...delivers advanced trauma life support to the trauma ...
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Estimation of weight in adults from height: a novel option for a quick bedside technique
... ATLS: Advanced trauma life support; B&A plot: Bland-Altman ’ s plot; BMI: Body mass index; CI: Confidence interval; eBMI: Estimated BMI; eBW: Estimated body weight; IOTF: International ...
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Impact of systolic blood pressure limits on the diagnostic value of triage algorithms
... of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course manual [6], it was stated that the presence of carotid (> 60 mmHg), femoral (> 70 mmHg), and radial pulse (> 80 mmHg) would correlate to ...
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Trauma care inside and outside business hours: comparison of process quality and outcome indicators in a German level-1 trauma center
... ATLS: Advanced Trauma Life Support; BH: Business Hours; CT: Computer Tomography; CVL: Central Venous Line; DGU: German Trauma Society; TR-DGU: TraumaRegister DGU®; EC: Erythrocyte ...
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Predictors of hospital mortality in adult trauma patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for advanced life support: a retrospective cohort study
... in trauma patients are hemorrhagic shock, cardiopul- monary dysfunction, and severe brain ...in trauma patients [2, 3]. For selected trauma patients who are in advanced shock or respiratory ...
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Effect of ultrasound training of physicians working in the prehospital setting
... Sixty-one physicians from the MECU were invited to participate in the study. The MECU is an advanced life support (ALS) unit staffed with a consultant anaesthesi- ologist and paramedic as an ...
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Is advanced life support better than basic life support in prehospital care? A systematic review
... interventions performed. The control groups were usually not comparable to the index group: the ALS groups tend to consist of more severely injured patients. Additionally, common confounding factors include dif- ferent ...
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Focused examination of cerebral blood flow in peri-resuscitation: a new advanced life support compliant concept—an extension of the focused echocardiography evaluation in life support examination
... quick look to the heart by using the FEEL algorithm and applying a duplex measurement by taking advantage of any overlaps to prevent hands-off times. Regarding the work- flow and the theoretical basis of the extended ...
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Clinical evaluation of the Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTATTM) platform
... The Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT™) is a self-contained, stretcher-based miniature intensive care unit designed by the United States Army to provide care for critically injured ...
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A needs assessment for simulation-based training of emergency medical providers in Nebraska, USA
... as trauma of chemical exposure, electricity and fire, farming, neurology injury, and ...including trauma and performing emergency procedures on pediatric patients, was also deemed as a training need at all ...
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