this quasi-experimental study was aimed to investigate the effect of an in-service education, including symptoms, complications, and handling chemical and drug toxicities, in fulfilling the educational needs of emergency technicians in fars province

conclusions this study highlighted the high frequency of wpv against emts. evidently, the health care systems’ officials would benefit from taking proper actions in this area, particularly by “staff and public education”. results most of the participants (79%) experienced wpv during the past six months. accident scene was the most important place of violence and the patients’ companions were th...

  Background :The studies have shown that stroke morbidity and mortality could be decreased if early diagnosis and treatment is delivered faster for patients. This tool is designed based on all Pre-hospital stroke scales across the world as well as experiences of the emergency medicine specialists and pre-hospital emergency technicians to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the stroke scale in I...

Introduction: Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are subject to moral hazards during work, leading them to find moral distress (MD). Our literature review showed a gap in knowledge related to MD in EMS personnel. Therefore, this study investigated MD and its influential factors in pre-hospital emergency technicians. Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted in Iran in 2017...

conclusions a large number (about two-thirds) of emts had some sort of back pain; it is highly recommended to promote the attitude and motivation of the individuals to take care to prevent back injury and inform them of the principles of back care. implications for primary prevention and care practice include encouraging emts to apply accurate principles of back care. results data showed that w...

Background—For patients with an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) activation by emergency medical technicians or emergency physicians has been shown to substantially reduce treatment times. One drawback to this approach involves overtriage, whereby CCL staffs are activated for patients who ultimately do not require emergent coronary angio...

OBJECTIVES To address the causes and prevention of fire incidents involving aluminum bodied oxygen regulators used by firefighters or emergency medical technicians. METHODS The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the United States Food and Drug Administration, and an independent forensic investigator examined several incidents involving injury to firefighters and emergency ...