Ambulances and emergency medical care.
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Dynamic coordination of ambulances for emergency medical assistance services
The main objective of emergency medical assistance (EMA) services is to attend patients with sudden diseases at any possible location within an area of influence. This usually consists in providing “in situ” assistance and, if necessary, the transport of the patient to a medical centre. The potential of such systems to reduce mortality is directly related to the travel times of ambulances to em...
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BACKGROUND Increased ambulance utilisation is closely linked with Emergency Department (ED) attendances. Pressures on hospital systems are widely acknowledged with ED overcrowding reported regularly in the media and peer-reviewed literature. Strains on ambulance services are less well-documented or studied. AIMS To review the literature to determine the trends in utilisation of emergency ambu...
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Background: Pre-hospital emergency medical services are one of the vital parts of the health system, which was created to timely diagnose and treat patients injured in life-threatening conditions. The use of motorcycles has increased in recent years to reach the golden time standard and overcome traffic in some countries, especially Iran. This study was conducted to investigate the effectivenes...
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BACKGROUND Approximately 16,000 children are transported by ambulances each day, and there are an estimated 4,500 ambulance crashes each year. Information about emergency medical services (EMS) provider knowledge, opinions, and behaviors regarding occupant restraint is lacking. OBJECTIVES To measure the knowledge, opinions, and behaviors of EMS personnel regarding child and provider restraint...
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General practice secondments are being increasingly undertaken by specialist registrars in accident and emergency (A&E) medicine. This paper describes how two A&E trainees arranged general practice secondments and the experiences gained. There follows a discussion ofthe benefits to the general practice and trainees involved, together with a contemporary consideration of the interaction between ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.55.11.1717