Accident and emergency medicine--making waves on the Internet.

Intelligent Traffic Management System for Prioritizing Emergency Vehicles in a Smart City (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Traffic congestion worldwide has led to loss of human lives due to failure in transporting accident victims, critical patients, medical equipment and medicines on time. With the unending growth in vehicular traffic everywhere, Internet of Things (IOT) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) have embarked as a promising platform for an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS). Many researches h...

Overdose on the Internet.

Utilization of Emergency Medical Services among Older People: A Case Study in Iran

Introduction: The need for emergency medical services (EMS) is growing because of the rapidly aging population. This study aimed to assess the utilization of EMS among older people in Tabriz, Iran. Methods: This retrospective study used data from the missions carried out by EMS in 2014-15. All of EMS records were analyzed over a continuous 12-month period by choosing selected profiles from...

Using the internet to coordinate a teaching programme in accident and emergency medicine.

The internet permits inexpensive and rapid communication of multiple forms of information across geographical boundaries. The authors describe the development of an internet based mailing list and web site to coordinate the regionwide accident and emergency specialist registrar teaching programme. The process entailed in setting up these resources is explained. The initial experiences of implem...

Can Emergency Medicine Residents Reliably Use the Internet to Answer Clinical Questions?

INTRODUCTION The study objective was to determine the accuracy of answers to clinical questions by emergency medicine (EM) residents conducting Internet searches by using Google. Emergency physicians commonly turn to outside resources to answer clinical questions that arise in the emergency department (ED). Internet access in the ED has supplanted textbooks for references because it is perceive...