Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Drone-delivered automated external defibrillators (AEDs) hold promises in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Our objective was to estimate the time needed to perform resuscitation with a drone-delivered AED and to measure cardiopu ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · December 9, 2023
OBJECTIVES: Strengthening of emergency care systems, including prehospital systems, can reduce death and disability. We aimed to identify perspectives on barriers and facilitators relating to the development and implementation of a prehospital emergency ca ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS Digit Health · December 2023
Emergency care-sensitive conditions (ECSCs) require rapid identification and treatment and are responsible for over half of all deaths worldwide. Prehospital emergency care (PEC) can provide rapid treatment and access to definitive care for many ECSCs and ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Inj Contr Saf Promot · September 2023
Trauma disproportionately affects vulnerable road users, especially the elderly. We analyzed the spatial distribution of elderly pedestrians struck by vehicles in the urban area of Maringa city, from 2014 to 2018. Hotspots were obtained by kernel density e ...
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Journal ArticleAfr J Emerg Med · September 2023
INTRODUCTION: Emergency conditions cause a significant burden of death and disability, particularly in developing countries. Prehospital and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are largely nonexistent throughout Tanzania and little is known about the communit ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · February 22, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Emergency medicine (EM) is a growing field in Sub-Saharan Africa. Characterising the current capacity of hospitals to provide emergency care is important in identifying gaps and future directions of growth. This study aimed to characterise th ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The shame reaction is a highly negative emotional reaction shown to have long-term deleterious effects on the mental health of clinicians. Prior studies have focused on in-hospital personnel, but very little is known about what drives sha ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Emergency medical services (EMS) workforce demographics in the United States do not reflect the diversity of the population served. Despite some efforts by professional organizations to create a more representative workforce, little has changed ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for falls among older adults have been linked to poor outcomes when the patient is not transported by EMS to a hospital. However, little is known regarding characteristics of this patient population. ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) often serve as the first medical contact for ill or injured patients, representing a critical access point to the health care delivery continuum. While a growing body of literature suggests inequities in care wi ...
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Journal ArticleEnviron Res · September 2022
BACKGROUND: People with pre-existing medical conditions, who spend a large proportion of their time indoors, are at risk of emergent morbidities from elevated indoor heat exposures. In this study, indoor heat of structures wherein exposed people received G ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · September 2022
AIM OF THE STUDY: While out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with poor survival, early bystander CPR (B-CPR) and telephone CPR (T-CPR) improves survival from OHCA. American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statements outline recommendation ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · April 2022
The purpose of this article is to summarize existing literature about healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the medical transport environment and to define the term medical transport-associated infection (MTAI) to unify all previous work under a single ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS Glob Public Health · 2022
Disproportionately high injury rates in Sub-Saharan Africa combined with limited access to care in both the acute injury phase and for injury patients requiring continued care after hospital discharge remains a challenge. We aimed to characterize barriers ...
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Journal ArticleLancet regional health. Americas · December 2021
BackgroundThe benefits of treatment for many conditions are time dependent. The burden of these emergency care sensitive conditions (ECSCs) is especially high in low- and middle-income countries. Our objective was to analyze geospatial trends in E ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Emerg Med · November 2021
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to identify, screen, highlight, review, and summarize some of the most rigorously conducted and impactful original research (OR) and review articles (RE) in global emergency medicine (EM) published in 2020 in the peer-reviewed ...
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Chapter · August 18, 2021
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common cause of death and disability. Primary prevention is focused on injury prevention programs, education, and policies. Prehospital care is focused on rapid identification and prevention of secondary brain injury throu ...
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Journal ArticleResusc Plus · June 2021
BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with negligible chance of survival are routinely transported to hospital and many are pronounced dead thereafter. This leads to some potentially avoidable costs. The 'Termination of Resuscitation' protocol allows ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2021
The opioid crisis is an ongoing public health concern and EMS agencies are in a critical position to reach at-risk populations. The traditional role of EMS in treating acute opioid overdoses has expanded to include preventative strategies as well as long-t ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Drone-delivered automated external defibrillators (AEDs) hold promises in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Our objective was to estimate the time needed to perform resuscitation with a drone-delivered AED and to measure cardiopu ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · December 9, 2023
OBJECTIVES: Strengthening of emergency care systems, including prehospital systems, can reduce death and disability. We aimed to identify perspectives on barriers and facilitators relating to the development and implementation of a prehospital emergency ca ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS Digit Health · December 2023
Emergency care-sensitive conditions (ECSCs) require rapid identification and treatment and are responsible for over half of all deaths worldwide. Prehospital emergency care (PEC) can provide rapid treatment and access to definitive care for many ECSCs and ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Inj Contr Saf Promot · September 2023
Trauma disproportionately affects vulnerable road users, especially the elderly. We analyzed the spatial distribution of elderly pedestrians struck by vehicles in the urban area of Maringa city, from 2014 to 2018. Hotspots were obtained by kernel density e ...
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Journal ArticleAfr J Emerg Med · September 2023
INTRODUCTION: Emergency conditions cause a significant burden of death and disability, particularly in developing countries. Prehospital and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are largely nonexistent throughout Tanzania and little is known about the communit ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · February 22, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Emergency medicine (EM) is a growing field in Sub-Saharan Africa. Characterising the current capacity of hospitals to provide emergency care is important in identifying gaps and future directions of growth. This study aimed to characterise th ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The shame reaction is a highly negative emotional reaction shown to have long-term deleterious effects on the mental health of clinicians. Prior studies have focused on in-hospital personnel, but very little is known about what drives sha ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Emergency medical services (EMS) workforce demographics in the United States do not reflect the diversity of the population served. Despite some efforts by professional organizations to create a more representative workforce, little has changed ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for falls among older adults have been linked to poor outcomes when the patient is not transported by EMS to a hospital. However, little is known regarding characteristics of this patient population. ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2023
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) often serve as the first medical contact for ill or injured patients, representing a critical access point to the health care delivery continuum. While a growing body of literature suggests inequities in care wi ...
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Journal ArticleEnviron Res · September 2022
BACKGROUND: People with pre-existing medical conditions, who spend a large proportion of their time indoors, are at risk of emergent morbidities from elevated indoor heat exposures. In this study, indoor heat of structures wherein exposed people received G ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · September 2022
AIM OF THE STUDY: While out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with poor survival, early bystander CPR (B-CPR) and telephone CPR (T-CPR) improves survival from OHCA. American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statements outline recommendation ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · April 2022
The purpose of this article is to summarize existing literature about healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the medical transport environment and to define the term medical transport-associated infection (MTAI) to unify all previous work under a single ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS Glob Public Health · 2022
Disproportionately high injury rates in Sub-Saharan Africa combined with limited access to care in both the acute injury phase and for injury patients requiring continued care after hospital discharge remains a challenge. We aimed to characterize barriers ...
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Journal ArticleLancet regional health. Americas · December 2021
BackgroundThe benefits of treatment for many conditions are time dependent. The burden of these emergency care sensitive conditions (ECSCs) is especially high in low- and middle-income countries. Our objective was to analyze geospatial trends in E ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Emerg Med · November 2021
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to identify, screen, highlight, review, and summarize some of the most rigorously conducted and impactful original research (OR) and review articles (RE) in global emergency medicine (EM) published in 2020 in the peer-reviewed ...
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Chapter · August 18, 2021
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common cause of death and disability. Primary prevention is focused on injury prevention programs, education, and policies. Prehospital care is focused on rapid identification and prevention of secondary brain injury throu ...
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Journal ArticleResusc Plus · June 2021
BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with negligible chance of survival are routinely transported to hospital and many are pronounced dead thereafter. This leads to some potentially avoidable costs. The 'Termination of Resuscitation' protocol allows ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2021
The opioid crisis is an ongoing public health concern and EMS agencies are in a critical position to reach at-risk populations. The traditional role of EMS in treating acute opioid overdoses has expanded to include preventative strategies as well as long-t ...
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Journal ArticleAir Med J · 2021
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to analyze helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) transport with secondary land ambulance transfer, comparing landings performed inside and outside the hospital complex to the emergency department. METHODS: Thi ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2021
BACKGROUND: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems exist to reduce death and disability from life-threatening medical emergencies. Less than 9% of the African population is serviced by an emergency medical services transportation system, and nearly two-t ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2021
BACKGROUND: Injuries account for about 13% of all registered deaths in Sri Lanka and are the leading cause of admission to public hospitals. Prehospital trauma care is new to Sri Lanka, and in 2016, a free ambulance service was launched in the Western and ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Emerg Med · January 2021
OBJECTIVE: The annual systematic search of the peer-reviewed and gray literature relevant to global emergency medicine (EM) was conducted by the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) to screen, evaluate, and review the most rigorously conduct ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Emerg Med · May 6, 2020
BACKGROUND: The Kingdom of Eswatini, a lower-middle income nation of 1.45 million in southern Africa, has recently identified emergency care as a key strategy to respond to the national disease burden. We aimed to evaluate the current capacity of hospital ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Health Serv Res · December 2, 2017
BACKGROUND: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the eighth leading cause of death worldwide, with an estimated 90% of RTIs occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Brazil. There has been minimal research in evaluation of delays in transport ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Public Health · August 2, 2016
BACKGROUND: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the eighth-leading cause of death worldwide, with low- and middle-income countries sharing a disproportionate number of fatalities. African countries, like Rwanda, carry a higher burden of these fatalities and w ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2016
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death worldwide and is increasing exponentially particularly in low and middle income countries (LMIC). To inform the development of a standard Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the acute management of ...
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Journal ArticleAm Heart J · December 2015
BACKGROUND: The modified Sgarbossa criteria were proposed in a derivation study to be superior to the original criteria for diagnosing acute coronary occlusion (ACO) in left bundle branch block (LBBB). The new rule replaces the third criterion (5 mm of exc ...
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