renal replacement therapy, transesophageal echocardiography, or bronchoscopy. A preliminary analysis of a critical care fellowship survey being conducted by Dr. Gunnerson and Dr. Huang shows that 40% are willing to accept emergency physicians. This represents an increase from the response in a 1999 survey.5 As more opportunities materialize, the influx of emergency physicians to the house of cr...

dealing with life-threatening situations requires the quickest, most effective response. each time the emergency phone number 115 is dialed, ems is ready to act and dispatch the rescue services needed. whether it is a fire, road accident, crime or medical crisis, the caller in distress should receive support from emergency services and lives should be saved. to be able to meet the required resp...

background trauma still stands atop of the list of emergencies. transfer of these patients via emergency medical services (ems) dispatch is critical with regard to importance of timing. this aspect has achieved greater importance due to population increase and telephone triage. objectives we aimed to decrease unnecessary emergency medical services (ems) missions via a computer program designed ...

Innovative methods for delivering healthcare via the use of technology are rapidly growing. Despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act, emergency department visits have continued to rise nationally. Healthcare systems must devise solutions to face these increasing volumes and also deliver high quality care. In response to the changing healthcare landscape, New York Presbyterian Hospital has...

under the smart grid environment, demand response resources (drrs) are introduced as a virtual power plant to enhance power system adequacy. drrs often fail to reduce their load due to some external factors. in this paper, a reliability model of a drr is constructed as multi-state conventional generation units, where the probability, frequency of occurrence, and departure rate of each state can...

We estimate within-year price elasticities of demand for detailed health care services using an instrumental variable strategy, in which individual monthly cost shares are instrumented by employer-year-plan-month average cost shares. A specification using backward myopic prices gives more plausible and stable results than using forward myopic prices. Using 171 million person-months spanning 73 ...

introduction: in medical education, ambulatory medicine education especially emergency is the most important part of medical education. aim of this study is the survey of medial students information needs seeking behavior pattern. we expect this study impacts on the clinical education quality, the recognition of students' education needs and better management of patients by medical students. me...