Emergency medical services (EMS)
Pediatric Readiness in Emergency Medical Services Systems
... prehospital emergency care of children, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Nurses Association, National Association of Emergency ...
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Initial assessment, level of care and outcome among children who were seen by emergency medical services: a prospective observational study
... The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) have developed rapidly over the last decades with the ability to perform interventions on scene which requires competence and clinical judgment to ...
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Application of the emergency medical services trigger tool to measure adverse events in prehospital emergency care: a time series analysis
... Consistent with the sampling strategy of the GTT, the EMSTT process utilises a sampling methodology of small consecutive samples over time. Cases considered for analysis included those where there was patient con- tact ...
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Twenty Years of Emergency Medical Services for Children: A Cause for Celebration and a Call for Action
... Opposition to HR 3999 does not mean that the pediatric EMS community opposes strong trauma legislation. In fact, those same advocacy groups that have voiced opposition to HR 3999 have come to- gether in their ...
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Emergency medical services key performance measurement in Asian cities
... care other than rapid transport. The quality of care avail- able at all levels appears to be directly related to the eco- nomic status of that country and the efforts of government and health authorities to identify and ...
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Clinical reasoning in the emergency medical services: an integrative review
... comprehensive medical knowledge is needed to make good decisions regarding a diagnosis, but know- ledge alone is not sufficient for clinical ...reasoning. EMS clinicians need to know what to think, but they ...
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Emergency Care of the Child
... Reviewing the historic develop- ment of emergency medical services for children (EMS-C) and the specialty of pediatric emergency medicine clarifies responsibilities of the system and spe[r] ...
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Comparison of supraglottic airway versus endotracheal intubation for the pre hospital treatment of out of hospital cardiac arrest
... the EMS personnel in coop- eration with the physicians in charge of the ...for Emergency Medical Services of Osaka and reviewed by the ...appropriate EMS personnel for ...responsible ...
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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
... based EMS-setting or in the German physician based prehospital system- ...Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch ...trauma, emergency operators in the dispatch centre ...
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Major incident in Kent: a case report
... Station; EMS: Emergency medical Services; EOC: Emergency Operations Centre; EPRR: Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response; HART: Hazardous Area Response Team; HDU: High ...
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Why and when citizens call for emergency help: an observational study of 211,193 medical emergency calls
... ambulance services [6, 7]. Moreover emergency department overcrowding is an increasing challenge with importance for patients’ outcome [8, ...the emergency medical services (EMS) ...
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DEVELOPING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE DELIVERY OF EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE SERVICES IN TANZANIA
... basic emergency of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is still uncertain in rural and urban area of ...on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and normative ...
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Fatal Child Abuse by Forced Water Intoxication
... found history of physical abuse (Table 2). All 3 pa- tients, as eventually admitted by the perpetrators, were forced to drink over 6 L of water at one sitting as punishment for “misconduct” (Table 2). The pri- mary ...
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Overcrowding Crisis in Our Nation's Emergency Departments: Is Our Safety Net Unraveling?
... ABSTRACT. Emergency departments (EDs) are a vital component in our health care safety net, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for all who require ...and emergency medical services in ...
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The Danish prehospital emergency healthcare system and research possibilities
... health services, including the prehospital ...Danish emergency medical services in general include ambulances, rapid response vehicles, mobile emergency care units and helicopter ...
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Developing prehospital clinical practice guidelines for resource limited settings: why re invent the wheel?
... PubMed, EMBASE and equivalent medical literature databases are traditionally the first port of call for find- ing evidence. However, we found that these traditional databases alone yielded very poor results. Out ...
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Oslo government district bombing and Utøya island shooting July 22, 2011: The immediate prehospital emergency medical service response
... infrastructure, EMS system and distance to specialised health ...different EMS systems and hos- pital ...excess EMS and HEMS resources in the region could be reallocated when the Utøya island ...
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Emergency care capacity in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a service evaluation
... dedicated emergency department or a par- ticular medication can be easily verified, evaluating training or clinical activity is more difficult and relies on self-reporting, which may introduce ...
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On the Determinants of Organizational Forgetting
... While services and manufacturing differ in their production environments, ambulance companies resemble manufacturers in their responsibility for hiring, training, contracting, maintenance of equipment, scheduling, ...
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Factors affecting the exposure, vulnerability and emergency medical service capacity for victims of road traffic incidents in Kampala Metropolitan Area: a Delphi study
... requires them to advise and/or oversee issues related to the Delphi topic; (d) being a researcher with recognized research and (e) being affiliated to a reputable institution. The experts selected were government ...
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