Emergency medical services

CPR-induced consciousness (CPR-IC) out-of-hospital care: a scoping review protocol

CPR-IC has proven problematic to practitioners attending out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) as patients hinder resuscitative efforts through a...

CPR-induced consciousness (CPR-IC) out-of-hospital care: a scoping review protocol

CPR-IC has proven problematic to practitioners attending out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) as patients hinder resuscitative efforts through a...

Factors associated with asthma and allergies in prehospital practitioners

The analysis shows a higher 12-month prevalence of allergies or asthma in certain subgroups of the participating prehospital EMS staff from Germany...

Thermal comfort during emergency transport by ambulance services

Ireland is situated the north-western seaboard of the European continental shelf. The weather is mainly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf...

Emergency practitioners' motivations and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination

A cross-sectional survey was distributed to assess attitudes of prehospital practitioners towards the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as their underlying...

Racial disparities in emergency care for seizures in the United States

Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel form the foundation of care for patients in the prehospital setting. However, the level of care they can...

Improving motivation for self-directed training in Danish EMS personnel

The Zealand Region in Denmark has around 832 500 inhabitants (Statistics Denmark, 2017). Even though healthcare is a public responsibility, the...

Credits granted for professional education of paramedics and nurses at at US colleges with paired programmes

Both paramedics and registered nurses may be educated through certificate/diploma programmes, through associate degree programmes, and through...

Accountable Care Organisations fund the gap—how to get community paramedic programmes paid

The American Academy of Family Physicians (2014) defines an ACO as:.

Length of professional education of paramedics and nurses at community colleges in the Northeast United States

Paramedics have provided advanced pre-hospital emergency medical care in the US since the early 1970s (National Highway Safety Traffic Administration...

The profile of an emergency medical services leader: a multi-national qualitative study

The EMS profession has typically relied on a rigid and hierarchical structure that tightly controls employees through rewards and punishment, and this...

Rural acute myocardial infarction survey (RAMIS)

‘building the necessary systems of care to coordinate Emergency Medical Services and hospitals so that catheterization (cath) laboratories can be...

Disaster training: lessons learnt from the 2008 Sichuan China earthquake

China is a country frequently affected by both natural and man-made disasters. For the last ten years, the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and the Qinghai...

Prehospital care in Malaysia: issues and challenges

Malaysia covers an area of approximately 330 803 km2, consisting of Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, and Federal Territory...

Mental health legislation: an era of change in paramedic clinical practice and responsibility

In Australia, mental health legislation varies from each state and territory, and while thes e laws promote the same fundamental principles,...

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