Articles: emergency-medical-services.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2024
Nationwide status of aeromedical pre-hospital and retrieval medicine in Australia.
To survey the current structure, capability and operational scope of pre-hospital and retrieval aeromedical teams across Australia. ⋯ Aeromedicine in Australia has many consistent elements, but variable contexts have resulted in a diversity of operational models.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Oct 2024
Key performance indicators and benchmarks in MCI prehospital response using technological tools: a qualitative study assessing the perception of practitioners and tool developers.
The aim of this study is to investigate the opinions and perspectives of The Novel Integrated Toolkit for Enhanced Prehospital Life Support and Triage in Challenging and Large Emergencies (NIGHTINGALE) end-users and tool developers regarding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks that assess the prehospital response to Mass Casualty Incidents (MCIs) enhanced by the NIT-MR. ⋯ This study emphasized the need for a structured approach to using KPIs and bridging the gap between technological and medical worlds, taking the NIGHTINGALE project, funded by the European Union, which aims to develop a technological toolkit for first responders in mass casualty incidents as an example. These insights are crucial for enhancing disaster response.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Oct 2024
ReviewKey performance indicators in pre-hospital response to disasters and mass casualty incidents: a scoping review.
The objective of this study was to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the existing Key performance indicators (KPIs) used in the evaluation of the pre-Hospital response to disasters and mass casualty incidents (MCIs). ⋯ The findings from this review emphasize the need for employing common terminology and using uniformed data collection tools, if obtaining standardized evaluation method is the goal to be achieved.
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Crises require changes to established structures, and this also applies to ambulance services. This case report addresses the Ukrainian ambulance service and the changes resulting from the armed conflict in Ukraine. The purpose of this article is to provide insight into the activities of the ambulance service of the Kharkiv region, the second-largest city in Ukraine. Kharkiv is still under heavy fire.
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Observational Study
The association between prehospital post-return of spontaneous circulation core temperature and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Following the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), a low body temperature on arrival at the hospital and on admission to the ICU is reportedly associated with increased mortality. Whether this association exists in the prehospital setting, however, is unknown. ⋯ In adult patients with ROSC following OHCA, early prehospital core temperature is independently associated with survival to hospital discharge.