Evaluation of emotional intelligence and its relationship with job stress and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among Shiraz pre-hospital emergency technicians in 2020 by Javid Mohammadi, Reza Nabiamjad, Siamak Amiri

“…The sample was selected from a population of about 400 technicians with at least one year of experience in emergency medical service centers. The sampling was done through a census method. …”
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Prehospital Targeting of 1-Year Mortality in Acute Chest Pain by Cardiac Biomarkers by Daniel Zalama-Sánchez, Francisco Martín-Rodríguez, Raúl López-Izquierdo, Juan F. Delgado Benito, Irene Sánchez Soberón, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Ancor Sanz-García

“…The implementation of this score has the potential to benefit emergency medical service care and facilitate the on-scene decision-making process.…”
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The evaluation of laypersons awareness of basic life support at the university in Izmir by Melek Pehli̇van, Neşe Can Mercan, İbrahim Çi̇nar, Ferhan Elmali, Mustafa Soyöz

“…Objectives: Basic Life Support (BLS) is the application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in order to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims by members of the public pending the arrival of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training in order to ensure society understands the importance of early initiation of BLS, and to provide information concerning BLS and automated external defibrillators (AED). …”
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Organization of Medical Care to Children with Road Traffic Injury in the Rostov Region by I.I. Babich, T. V. Vygonskaya, F. G. Sharshov, Ye. A. Spiridonova, S. A. Rumyantsev, E. E. Rostorguyev

“…Key words: road traffic accidents, emergency medical service, children, traumatic lesions.…”
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A study on the disaster medical response during the Mauna Ocean Resort gymnasium collapse by Myeong-il Cha, Gi Woon Kim, Chu Hyun Kim, Minhong Choa, Dai Hai Choi, Inbyung Kim, Soon Joo Wang, In Sool Yoo, Han Deok Yoon, Kang Hyun Lee, Suck Ju Cho, Tag Heo, Eun Seog Hong

“…All the medical records and emergency medical service run sheets were reviewed by an emergency physician. …”
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Features of the seasonal dynamics of ambulance calls for patients with angina pectoris by V. A. Belyaeva

“…Aim - to study the dynamics of frequency of ambulance сalls for patients with stable angina in different seasons of the year, depending on the current meteorological factors.Materials and methods. 1034 cases of calls of the emergency medical service in the city of Vladikavkaz to the patients with angina attack were analyzed. …”
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Urban sprawl and health: a review of the scientific literature by Dario Genovese, Stefania Candiloro, Antonio D’Anna, Marco Dettori, Vincenzo Restivo, Emanuele Amodio, Alessandra Casuccio

“…A total of 826 records were identified via PubMed/MEDLINE (227) and Scopus (599) and 36 studies were deemed suitable for inclusion: 21/36 studies (58%) focused on obesity as the primary health outcome, 4/36 (11%) on life expectancy and/or mortality, 7/36 (19%) on accidents or emergency medical service response, and 4/36 (11%) on the self-reported psychological distress and/or physical health conditions associated with urban sprawl. …”
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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE TIMING OF PATIENTS SEEKING MEDICAL CARE IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME WITH ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION by Юлия Александровна Солопова, Михаил Юрьевич Огарков, Артем Юрьевич Янкин, Юрий Григорьевич Гущин, Марина Александровна Шулакова, Евгений Николаевич Марешин, Надежда Михайловна Шахшнейдер, Ольга Анатольевна Горелкина

“…The influence of sex and age on the time of emergency medical service (NSR) is analyzed. The influence of coronary and family history on the time of the SMP brigade call is traced. …”
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Initial Cardiac Rhythm Correlated to Emergency Department Survival by Rade B. Vukmir

“…Methods Prospective, randomized, double-blinded clinical intervention trial where bicarbonate was administered to 874 prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest patients in prehospital urban, suburban, and rural emergency medical service environments. Results This group's manifested an overall survival rate of 13.9% (110 of 793) of prehospital cardiac arrest patients. …”
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Factors Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes in the Elderly in Taiwan by Wen-Han Chang, Chien-Hsuan Huang, Ding-Kuo Chien, Yu-Jang Su, Po-Chen Lin, Cheng-Ho Tsai

“…This analysis, supported by a literature review and a review of the outcomes of CPR, considered different factors in elderly patients, including age, sex, prehospital emergency medical service, preexisting disease, witnessed cardiac arrest, initial arrest electrocardiogram rhythm, CPR locations, and ethics. …”
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Pre-hospital symptoms associated with acute bacterial meningitis differs between children and adults by Nichlas Hovmand, Helle Collatz Christensen, Lene Fogt Lundbo, Gitte Kronborg, Perle Darsø, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Thomas Benfield

“…Reported symptoms were extracted from archived audio files of the initial phone call to emergency medical service. The majority of the 209 patients (82%) were adults. …”
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Machine learning-based analysis of regional differences in out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest outcomes and resuscitation interventions in Japan by Yasuyuki Kawai, Koji Yamamoto, Keita Miyazaki, Hideki Asai, Hidetada Fukushima

“…Thus, we employed machine learning to assess emergency medical service (EMS) records for examining regional disparities in time reduction strategies. …”
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Prehospital diagnostic algorithm for acute coronary syndrome using machine learning: a prospective observational study by Masahiko Takeda, Takehiko Oami, Yosuke Hayashi, Tadanaga Shimada, Noriyuki Hattori, Kazuya Tateishi, Rie E. Miura, Yasuo Yamao, Ryuzo Abe, Yoshio Kobayashi, Taka-aki Nakada

“…The data from consecutive adult patients, identified by emergency medical service personnel with suspected ACS, were analyzed. …”
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Stroke Scales as Assessment Tools in Emergency Settings: A Narrative Review by Hrvoje Budinčević, Andrija Meštrović, Vida Demarin

“…The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is the most recommended tool for the evaluation of stroke patients in hospital settings and research, and it has two variants: the shortened NIHSS for Emergency Medical Service and the modified NIHSS. The evaluation of comatose patients usually involves assessment with the Glasgow Coma Scale, which is very useful in patients with hemorrhagic stroke or traumatic brain injury. …”
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Bringing CT Scanners to the Skies: Design of a CT Scanner for an Air Mobile Stroke Unit by Jun Sheng Kwok, Kate Fox, Cees Bil, Francesca Langenberg, Anna H. Balabanski, Angela Dos Santos, Andrew Bivard, Fergus Gardiner, Christopher Bladin, Mark Parsons, Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, Christopher Levi, Henry De Aizpurua, Bruce Campbell, Stephen M. Davis, Geoffrey A. Donnan, Damien Easton, Toh Yen Pang

“…The implementation of Air-MSU is currently hindered by several technical limitations, where current commercially available CT scanners are still oversized and too heavy to be integrated into a conventional helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS). In collaboration with the Australian Stroke Alliance and Melbourne Brain Centre, this article aims to explore the possibilities and methodologies in reducing the weight and, effectively, the size of an existing CT scanner, such that it can be retrofitted into the proposed search and rescue helicopter—Agusta Westland AW189. …”
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Spatial accessibility to emergency care in Sichuan province in China by Xuefeng Tang, Yufan Deng, Huazhen Yang, Fan Tian, Youping Li, Jay Pan

“…This study provided a brief introduction to the emergency medical service system of China, and assessed the spatial accessibility of emergency care as well as its associated social-economic characteristics based on Sichuan province. …”
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231 Resuscitation academy Germany – systemic improvements for better out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes by S Seewald, A Wagenplast, JT Gräsner, L Hannappel, P Brinkrolf, M Corzillius, P Rösch, K Schaller, C Scheltz, S Poloczek

Relationship between nutritional status and length of hospital stay among patients with atrial fibrillation – a result of the nutritional status heart study by Michał Czapla, Michał Czapla, Michał Czapla, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Raúl Juárez-Vela, Angela Durante, Marta Kałużna-Oleksy, Katarzyna Łokieć, Ramón Baeza-Trinidad, Jacek Smereka

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Impact of ICU transfers on the mortality rate of patients with COVID-19: insights from comprehensive national database in France by Marc-Antoine Sanchez, Albert Vuagnat, Olivier Grimaud, Emmanuelle Leray, Jean-Marc Philippe, François-Xavier Lescure, Mathieu Boutonnet, Hélène Coignard, Agnès Ricard Hibon, Stephane Sanchez, Julien Pottecher

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Coronary-Pulmonary Artery Fistula Recanalization on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Images by Paweł Gać, Adrian Martuszewski, Patrycja Paluszkiewicz, Rafał Poręba

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