The Effect of Perceived Organizational Justice on Social Loafing (Case Study: Medical Emergency Services of Yazd) by Mahdi Sabokro, Reza Ebrahimzadeh Pezeshki, Negar Barahimi, Alie Haghbin

“…Regarding the importance of organizational injustice in creating frustration and individual procrastination, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of perceived organizational justice on creating or intensifying the phenomenon of social loafing in emergency medical service of Yazd. Materials and Methods: This is an analytical study and the research community included all nurses working in medical emergency service of Yazd in the second half of the year 2016. …”
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Impact of the Type of First Medical Contact within a Guideline-Conform ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Network: A Prospective Observational Registry Study. by Roman Pfister, Samuel Lee, Kathrin Kuhr, Frank Baer, Wolfgang Fehske, Hans-Wilhelm Hoepp, Stephan Baldus, Guido Michels

“…METHODS AND RESULTS:3,312 patients were prospectively included between 2006 and 2012 into a registry accompanying the "Cologne Infarction Model" STEMI network, with 68.4% primarily presenting to emergency medical service (EMS), 17.6% to non-PCI-capable hospitals, and 14.0% to PCI-capable hospitals. …”
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Pre-existing comorbidity modify emergency room visit for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in association with ambient environments. by Yu-Chun Wang, Yi-Chun Chen, Chun-Yu Ko, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Fung-Chang Sung

“…CONCLUSIONS:Our data provided evidences to clinicians, emerging medical services and public health that the ERV risk for OHCA patients is greater at low temperature than at high temperature. …”
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A prehospital diagnostic algorithm for strokes using machine learning: a prospective observational study by Yosuke Hayashi, Tadanaga Shimada, Noriyuki Hattori, Takashi Shimazui, Yoichi Yoshida, Rie E. Miura, Yasuo Yamao, Ryuzo Abe, Eiichi Kobayashi, Yasuo Iwadate, Taka-aki Nakada

“…Consecutive adult patients with suspected stroke as per emergency medical service personnel were enrolled in a prospective multicenter observational study in 12 hospitals in Japan. …”
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"If you miss that first step in the chain of survival, there is no second step"-Emergency ambulance call-takers' experiences in managing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest calls. by Nirukshi Perera, Tanya Birnie, Austin Whiteside, Stephen Ball, Judith Finn

“…This study highlights the often under-acknowledged yet critical role of the ambulance call-taker in being the first member of an emergency medical service that is contacted in the event of an OHCA.…”
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Home-based Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Leveraging Prehospital Resources for Vulnerable Populations by Scott A. Goldberg, Robert A. Bonacci, Lucas C. Carlson, Charles T. Pu, Christine S. Ritchie

“…Methods: We developed an emergency medical service (EMS)-based home testing and evaluation program, leveraging existing community EMS resources. …”
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Development of Prediction Models for Acute Myocardial Infarction at Prehospital Stage with Machine Learning Based on a Nationwide Database by Arom Choi, Min Joung Kim, Ji Min Sung, Sunhee Kim, Jayoung Lee, Heejung Hyun, Hyeon Chang Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Hyuk-Jae Chang

“…Models for predicting acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at the prehospital stage were developed and their efficacy compared, based on variables identified from a nationwide systematic emergency medical service (EMS) registry using conventional statistical methods and machine learning algorithms. …”
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Dispatcher-Assisted Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Telephone-CPR) and Outcomes after Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Seyedmohammad Seyedbagheri, Tabandeh Sadeghi, Majid Kazemi, Ali Esmaieli Nadimi

“…Objective: To determine the effects of the implementation of the telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) program on the outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).Methods: In this prospective study, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) dispatchers and all bystanders attending to patients with OHCA were included. …”
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Impacto da pandemia COVID-19 nos profissionais de emergência médica by Sara Faria, Sílvia Monteiro Fonseca, Sónia Cunha, Rui Campos, Cristina Queirós

“…Em abril de 2022 efetuou-se uma pesquisa na EBSCOhost, utilizando a equação de pesquisa: “paramedic* or emergency medical service or EMT or ambulance” e “covid-19 or coronavirus or 2019-ncov or sars-cov-2 or cov-19”. …”
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Process Algebraic Approach for Probabilistic Verification of Safety and Security Requirements of Smart IoT (Internet of Things) Systems in Digital Twin by Junsup Song, Sunghyun Lee, Dimitris Karagiannis, Moonkun Lee

“…To demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of the approach, the SAVE (Specification, Analysis, Verification, Evaluation) tool has been developed on the ADOxx Meta-Modeling Platform and applied to a SEMS (Smart Emergency Medical Service) example. In addition, a miniature digital twin system for the SEMS example was constructed and applied to the SAVE tool as a proof of concept for Digital Twin. …”
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Incidence and outcome of patients with difficulty in hospital acceptance during COVID‐19 pandemic in Osaka Prefecture, Japan: A population‐based descriptive study by Yusuke Katayama, Kenta Tanaka, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Hisaya Dohmi, Jun Masui, Tomoya Hirose, Shunichiro Nakao, Jotaro Tachino, Jun Oda, Tetsuya Matsuoka

“…Abstract Aim The impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic on the emergency medical service system in Japan has not been fully revealed. …”
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Effective Factors on Delayed Onset of Treatment in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ensiyeh Rezaee, Nasrin Hanifi, Mahin Rohani, Soghrat Faghih Zadeh

“…The time to treatment was found to have a significant association with residence in rural areas (P= 0.04), misinterpretation of symptoms (P= 0.01), inadequate income (P<0.001), and not using emergency medical service (P<0.001). According to linear regression, the main predictor of late arrival was insufficient income of patients (P<0.001). …”
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Hypertensive Crisis in Pediatric Patients: An Overview by Rupesh Raina, Rupesh Raina, Zubin Mahajan, Aditya Sharma, Ronith Chakraborty, Sarisha Mahajan, Sidharth K. Sethi, Gaurav Kapur, David Kaelber

“…With the advent of telehealth, clinicians are further able to extend their reach of care to emergency settings and aid emergency medical service (EMS) providers in real time. In addition, further updates on the evolving topic of hypertension in the pediatric population and novel drug development continues to improve outcomes and efficiency in diagnosis and management of hypertension and consequent hypertensive crisis.…”
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Occupational injuries and fatalities in a tanzanite mine: Need to improve workers safety in Tanzania by Respicious Boniface, Lawrence Museru, Victoria Munthali, Ronald Lett

“…Initiation of pre hospital care at the mines and improved emergency medical service delivery at health centers in Tanzania.…”
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Comparison of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests during the COVID-19 pandemic with those before the pandemic: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis by Jae Hwan Kim, Chiwon Ahn, Yeonkyung Park, Moonho Won

“…Survival to hospitalization, return of spontaneous circulation, endotracheal intubation, and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) decreased significantly, whereas the use of a supraglottic airway device, the incidence of cardiac arrest at home, and response time of emergency medical service (EMS) increased significantly. Bystander CPR, unwitnessed cardiac arrest, EMS transfer time, use of mechanical CPR, and in-hospital target temperature management did not differ significantly. …”
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Epidemiology and Outcome of Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest after Traffic Collision in Japan: A Population-Based Study by Sanae Hosomi, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Tomotaka Sobue, Ling Zha, Kosuke Kiyohara, Jun Oda

“…We analyzed the All-Japan Utstein Registry data of 918 pediatric patients aged <20 years with OHCAs following traffic collisions who were resuscitated by bystanders or emergency medical service personnel and were subsequently transported to hospitals between 2013 and 2019. …”
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A multicenter cohort study on the association between prehospital immobilization and functional outcome of patients following spinal injury in Asia by Hsuan An Chen, Shuo Ting Hsu, Sang Do Shin, Sabariah Faizah Jamaluddin, Do Ngoc Son, Ki Jeong Hong, Hideharu Tanaka, Jen Tang Sun, Wen Chu Chiang, The PATOS Clinical Research Network

“…Abstract Prehospital spinal immobilization is a widely used procedure in the emergency medical service (EMS) system worldwide, while the incidence of patients with spinal injury (SI) is relatively low, and unnecessary prehospital spinal immobilization is associated with patient complications. …”
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Effects of prehospital management in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: advanced airway and adrenaline administration by Yu Wang, Qun Zhang, Guang Bo Qu, Fang Fang, Xiao Kang Dai, Liang Xi Yu, Hong Zhang

“…This study aimed to evaluate whether AAM and adrenaline administration provided by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) can improve the outcomes of OHCA. …”
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POSSIBILITIES OF PROLONGED BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING IN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF COMBINED ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY IN EMERGENCY CARE by V. V. Ruksin, O. V. Grishin, V. P. Kitsyshin, I. Yu. Lukianova

“…At the stage of emergency medical care, the time of observation of a patient receiving antihypertensive therapy is limited to the time of stay of the emergency medical service team with this patient. Therefore, assessing the efficacy and safety of prescribing a particular antihypertensive treatment pattern is a relevant task. …”
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Outcome of emergency obstetric cases in relation to the referral pattern at a tertiary hospital in Puducherry: A cross-sectional descriptive study by Abhilasha Ghai, Sreeja Manghat, Sonali Sarkar, Yavana Suriya Venkatesh, Latha Chaturvedula

“…Materials and Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional descriptive study was done among obstetric patients admitted to a tertiary care hospital's emergency department (emergency medical service [EMS]). A retrospective cohort was analyzed. …”
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