Articles: emergency-medical-services.
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Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed · Oct 1987
["Round the clock"--an information service for malignant hyperthermia emergencies].
A 24-hour 7-day telephone service has been created for emergency consultation: MH-hotline 030/3035504 (daytime) or 030/30351 (after office hours). In emergencies callers should ask for a consultant, indicating the code word "malignant hyperthermia" and give their name, the name of the institution and the telephone number.
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The performance of life-saving procedures by prehospital care personnel was reviewed in the cases of 114 pulseless, nonbreathing pediatric patients. Children 18 months to 18 years of age had a significantly greater chance of having prehospital endotracheal intubation and vascular access established compared to children younger than 18 months of age. ⋯ Nine (8%) patients survived, and only three of the survivors were without neurologic sequelae. The number of neurologically intact survivors was too small to show a statistically significant association with these factors.