Road ambulances: working conditions of paramedics – pilot studies

Back Pain Among Paramedics: A Pilot Study

The back pain is one of the most prevalent health problems, and about 60-80% of people encounter with the same problem at least once in their whole life time (1). Several studies have shown that some healthcare workers are at high risk of musculoskeletal disorders, particularly low back pain (2). The Nurses and paramed-ic staffs, especially ambulance paramedics who work in prehospital emergency...

back pain among paramedics: a pilot study

A pilot study of workplace violence towards paramedics.

BACKGROUND International studies have shown that some 60% of paramedics have experienced physical violence in the workplace, and between 21-78% have experienced verbal abuse. To date, there is no Australian literature describing Australian paramedics' experience of workplace violence. OBJECTIVE To identify the percentage of paramedics who had experienced six different forms of workplace viole...

Globalization and Working Conditions: A Guideline for Country Studies

Road Segmentation for Classification of Road Weather Conditions

Using vehicle cameras to automatically assess road weather conditions requires that the road surface first be identified and segmented from the imagery. This is a challenging problem for uncalibrated cameras such as removable dash cams or cell phone cameras, where the location of the road in the image may vary considerably from image to image. Here we show that combining a spatial prior with va...