Penetrating Injury from Interpersonal Violence and Related Haemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation Practices in An Urban South African Emergency Medical Service

Violence Against Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Guilan Province, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

Interpersonal violence: an important risk factor for disease and injury in South Africa

BACKGROUND Burden of disease estimates for South Africa have highlighted the particularly high rates of injuries related to interpersonal violence compared with other regions of the world, but these figures tell only part of the story. In addition to direct physical injury, violence survivors are at an increased risk of a wide range of psychological and behavioral problems. This study aimed to ...

Patient expectations from an emergency medical service.

BACKGROUND Patient expectation survey at the Emergency Medical Services can improve patient satisfaction. A need was established to conduct such a survey in order to recommend its use as a quality improvement tool. METHODS The study was conducted on patients visiting the Emergency Medical Services, Aga Khan University, Karachi. A questionnaire was used to collect information on the demographi...

Penetrating the acoustic shadows: emergency ultrasound in South African emergency departments.

With an increasing evidence base, emergency ultrasound (EMUS) is soon to be introduced into South African emergency departments. As with any diagnostic apparatus, there are areas where its use is particularly helpful and areas where it is not. Successful EMUS depends on binary (yes/no) decisions in life-or-death emergency medicine situations (e.g. trauma, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and car...

Paramedic rapid sequence induction (RSI) in a South African emergency medical service: a retrospective observational study.

BACKGROUND Early access to critical care interventions may improve outcomes for severely ill and injured patients. South Africa (SA) faces the unique challenges of prolonged pre-hospital times and limited access to physicians. In 2008, the Health Professions Council of SA introduced paramedic rapid sequence induction (RSI), the gold standard critical care intervention for emergency airway manag...