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Prehospital treatment with continuous positive airway pressure in patients with acute respiratory failure: a regional observational study
... or respiratory rate as outcome measures of effectiveness in patients with acute cardiopulmonary oedema or acute re- spiratory failure [10, 12, 17]. Two recent studies of prehos- pital patients with respiratory distress, ...
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Practical use, effects and complications of prehospital treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema using the Boussignac CPAP system
... The present study has several limitations. Firstly, data were collected retrospectively. Through stated criteria of inclusion, based on established criteria, we ensured an accurate selection of patients [1]. Se- condly, ...
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Are prehospital treatment or conveyance decisions affected by an ambulance crew’s ability to access a patient’s health information?
... During the second part of the survey, hypothetical sce- narios were introduced which attempted to ascertain whether or not the provision of additional information would lead to the selection of more appropriate care ...
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A systematic review of controlled studies: do physicians increase survival with prehospital treatment?
... physician treatment, the strength was limited by a low number of patients in the intervention group [23,39,40] and two studies had obvious confounding factors because only physicians carried defibrillators [16] ...
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Original Article Prehospital facilitated intervention as a potential “sally port” for the rescue of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis
... of prehospital fibrinolysis with timely percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a promising strategy which could reduce the reperfusion delay especially for the patients in remote ...(prehospital ...
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Resuscitation 80 (2009) Contents lists available at ScienceDirect. Resuscitation. journal homepage:
... in prehospital treatment strategies of severe TBI ...to prehospital guidelines with patient outcome, we showed trends towards respiratory and metabolic deterioration in patients who were treated ...
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Emergency Medical Services System Changes Reduce Pediatric Epinephrine Dosing Errors in the Prehospital Setting
... the prehospital treatment of pediatric patients in cardio- pulmonary arrest, by comparing epinephrine dosing er- ror rates before and after implementation of the LA Kids ...
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PEC11 Chap 01 - EMS Systems.pdf
... After giving a report to the emergency department (E D) about Ben’s condition and prehospital treatment, Alexis compliments Peter and Juliana on their assessment and care. Peter takes[r] ...
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Animal Bite Assessment and Treatment. Case study. Introduction. Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-B Randal F. Wojciehoski, DPM, DO. Picture has been removed
... 2005 EPS LLC Delayed Consequences Disfigurement and Scaring Wound Location Wound Severity Wound Cleanliness Prehospital Treatment Closure Infection Control Objective 3: Assessment As[r] ...
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Suspicion and treatment of severe sepsis. An overview of the prehospital chain of care
... Methods: A literature search was performed on the PubMed, Embase (Ovid SP) and Cochrane Library databases. Results: In overall terms, we found a small number of articles (n = 12 of 1,162 unique hits) which addressed the ...
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Prehospital management of burns
... Health care providers often categorize burns by the depth of damage created. First-degree burns are usually the least dangerous. First-degree burns damage only the outer epidermal layer of skin. This produces an intense ...
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Controversies in Prehospital Care
... Nowhere in emergency medicine are mythology, legend, and tradition as conspicuous as they are in the field of prehospital care (EMS). Images of speeding ambulances with lights and sirens, aeromedical helicopters ...
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Study on Clinical and Epidemiological study of Corrosive Ingestion
... Caustic ingestion can produce devastating injury to the upper digestive tract, damage in rapid, its results potentially catastrophic and its complications if the patients surveys, may last a life time. Further more, ...
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Decision tree model for predicting long term outcomes in children with out of hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide, population based observational study
... five prehospital variables: incident witnessed by a bystander, incident witnessed by EMS personnel, bystander CPR, ini- tial shockable rhythm and ROSC in the ...the prehospital setting in their ...
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Functional stroke outcomes after mobile stroke unit deployment – the revised protocol for the Berlin Prehospital Or Usual Delivery of acute stroke care (B_PROUD) part 2 study
... In the event of an acute ischemic stroke, fast recanalization of the occluded vessel is crucial because of the rapid death of neurons in ischemic brain tissue [2]. The only evidence-based measures to achieve tissue ...
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National consensus on communication in prehospital trauma care, the DENIM study
... For the first DENIM round, the main question asked was; which trauma patient would benefit by the advanced care of P-HEMS? In order to generate discussion and yield ar- gumentation varying statements and cases were ...
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Ischemic stroke in Morocco: a systematic review
... Since ischemic stroke is largely preventable, it is im- portant to study the epidemiological and other aspects of care to reduce the incidence rate and the resulting burden on our kingdom. It is important to highlight ...
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Adverse events in prehospital emergency care: a trigger tool study
... three prehospital organiza- tions in Sweden during a period of one ...three prehospital organizations were chosen to represent three different types of organization; one urban environment, with the majority ...
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Prehospital intravenous fentanyl administered by ambulance personnel: a cluster-randomised comparison of two treatment protocols
... of 2598 patients were treated with the standard treat- ment protocol and 2680 patients were treated with the liberal treatment protocol. No major differences in base- line characteristics of patients were seen ...
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2/25/2013. NAEMSP Annual Meeting The authors report no disclosures. The On-Scene Physician Brian Clemency, DO, MBA
... Routing online medical command to prehospital physician on duty ◦ Decreased workload for Emergency. Department[r] ...
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