Counseling patients and family members in out-of-hospital emergency situations: a survey for emergency staff

Counseling patients and family members in out-of-hospital emergency situations: a survey for emergency staff

BACKGROUND Not much is known about emergency care delivered in patients' homes or other out-of-hospital settings. This study aims to describe out-of-hospital emergency staff's experiences of encountering and counseling patients and their family members. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was applied. Data were collected from a hospital district in Finland from emergency care staff v...

A Physical Rehabilitation Model for Disabled, Elderly and Injured in Emergency Situations (earthquake)

Objective and Backgrounds: Children, elderly and people with disabilities are mainly affected by damages in any accident or natural disasters. The people with disabilities are neglected in every phase of crisis management evidently. This negligence is more significant in emergencies, specially the need for rehabilitation of these people during 72 hours after earthquake. Method: In this paper, ...

Emergency care--in and out of hospital.

Survey of attitudes about patient safety in pre-hospital emergency operating staff of Mashhad-Iran in 2019

Background and Aims: patient safety is a very important and necessary component and one of the main elements of quality in health and medical organizations, despite this, the patient safety situation in the pre-hospital emergency system is very ambiguous and there is almost no information about adverse complications. Assessing the current safety culture can be a starting point for improving saf...

Pediatric emergency medical care in Yerevan, Armenia: a knowledge and attitudes survey of out-of-hospital emergency physicians

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital emergency care is at an early stage of development in Armenia, with the current emergency medical services (EMS) system having emergency physicians (EPs) work on ambulances along with nurses. While efforts are underway by the Ministry of Health and other organizations to reform the EMS system, little data exists on the status of pediatric emergency care (PEC) in the c...