Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on turnover intention among nurses in emergency departments in Thailand: a cross sectional study by Songwut Sungbun, Siripan Naknoi, Panjasilpa Somboon, Orapan Thosingha

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The Effect of Warm Footbath on the Quality of Sleep on Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Cardiac Care Unit<br /> by Hassan Talebi Ghadicolaei, Mohammad Ali Heydary Gorji, Babak Bagheri, Jamshid Yazdani charati, Zoya Hadinejad

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Epilepsy and Associated Factors in Elderly People of Amirkola, North of Iran (The Amirkola Health and Ageing Project) by Payam Saadat, Alijan Ahmadi Ahangar, Seyed Reza Hosseini, Ali Bijani, Mohsen Khalili, Shayan Alijanpour

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Out of sight – Out of mind? The need for a professional and standardized peri-mission first responder support model by Sebastian Schnaubelt, Simon Orlob, Christoph Veigl, Patrick Sulzgruber, Mario Krammel, Kasper G. Lauridsen, Robert Greif

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Critically buried avalanche victims can develop severe hypothermia in less than 60 min by Simon Rauch, Julia Kompatscher, Andreas Clara, Iris Öttl, Giacomo Strapazzon, Marc Kaufmann

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Project for the introduction of prehospital analgesia with fentanyl and morphine administered by specially trained paramedics in a rural service area in Germany by Scharonow M, Alberding T, Oltmanns W, Weilbach C

“…Maximilian Scharonow,1 Timo Alberding,2 Wolfgang Oltmanns,2 Christian Weilbach1 1Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, St Josefs-Hospital, 2Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Kreisverb&auml;nde, Cloppenburg, Germany Background: In patients with serious illness or trauma, reduction of severe pain is a key therapeutic goal of emergency medical service (EMS) teams. In Germany, only physicians are allowed to use opioid analgesics. …”
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Effect of COVID‐19 on healthcare workers' morbidity and mortality compared to the general population in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer‐Ahmad Province, Iran by Mohsen Jalil, Zahra Ashkan, Mohammad Gholamnezhad, Somayeh Jamalidoust, Marzieh Jamalidoust

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The Association between Psychosocial and Age-Related Factors with Adherence to Immunosuppressive Therapies after Renal Transplantation by Justyna Zachciał, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Michał Czapla, Magdalena Krajewska, Mirosław Banasik

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The Large ARtery Intracranial Occlusion Stroke Scale: A New Tool With High Accuracy in Predicting Large Vessel Occlusion by Simone Vidale, Marco Arnaboldi, Lara Frangi, Marco Longoni, Gianmario Monza, Elio Agostoni

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The Health Complaints of School Age Children in Turkey by Cüneyt Çalışkan, Hatice Topsakal, Orhan Koray Arberk, Burcu Küçük Biçer, Hande Konşuk Ünlü, Hilal Özcebe

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Changes in self-harm- and violence-related urgent psychiatric consultation in the emergency department during the different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic by Chun-Hao Liu, Po-Cheng Chen, Jian-Hong Chen, Chung-Cheng Yeh

“…The total number of UPCs, patient demographic data such as sex and age of the patients seen, the referral system (whether police or emergency medical service [EMS] or other sources), and the chief complaint (self-harm or violence) were recorded. …”
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Prehospital clinical practice guidelines for unintentional injuries: a scoping review and prioritisation process by Desmond Kuupiel, Nasreen S. Jessani, Jody Boffa, Celeste Naude, Emmy De Buck, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Michael McCaul

“…Twenty-five (43%) CPGs targeted emergency medical service providers, while 13 (22%) targeted first aid providers (laypeople). …”
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INFLUENCE OF SWITCHING OF CLOPIDOGREL TO TICAGRELOR ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN PATIENTS WITH ST SEGMENT ELEVATION by E. V. Tavlueva, A. V. Alekseenko, O. V. Gruzdeva, O. L. Barbarash

“…At the stage  of emergency medical service, all patients received loading doses of acetylsalicylic acid (250 mg) and clopidogrel (600 mg). …”
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Pre-hospital care time intervals among victims of road traffic injuries in Iran. A cross-sectional study by Bigdeli Maryam, Khorasani-Zavareh Davoud, Mohammadi Reza

“…Timely arrival of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) at the crash scene followed by speedy victim transportation by trained personnel may reduce the RTIs' consequences. …”
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Comparison of outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients: Emergency calls placed from mobile phones vs. landline phones by Takeshi Nishimura, Masafumi Suga, Takashi Hongo, Tetsuya Yumoto, Atsunori Nakao, Satoshi Ishihara, Hiromichi Naito

“…Background: Until recently, calls to the emergency medical service (EMS) from landline phones, which display the caller’s exact location at the dispatch center, had been common. …”
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Telephone CPR Instructions in Emergency Dispatch Systems: Qualitative Survey of 911 Call Centers by John Sutter, Micah Panczyk, Daniel W. Spaite, Jose Maria E. Ferrer, Jason Roosa, Christian Dameff, Blake Langlais, Ryan A. Murphy, Bentley J. Bobrow

“…The 2010 American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Guidelines recognize emergency dispatch as an integral component of emergency medical service response to OHCA and call for all dispatchers to be trained to provide telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) pre-arrival instructions. …”
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Updated trends in the outcomes of out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest from 2017–2021: Prior to and during the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic by Cheng‐Yi Fan, Chih‐Wei Sung, Ching‐Yu Chen, Chi‐Hsin Chen, Likwang Chen, Yun‐Chang Chen, Jiun‐Wei Chen, Wen‑Chu Chiang, Chien‐Hua Huang, Edward Pei‐Chuan Huang

“…Variables were extracted from the emergency medical service reports and medical records. The years 2020 and 2021 were defined as the COVID‐19 pandemic period. …”
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Pre-hospital Prognostic Factors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The Difference Between Pediatric and Adult by Fu-Jen Cheng, Wei-Ting Wu, Shih-Chiang Hung, Yu-Ni Ho, Ming-Ta Tsai, I-Min Chiu, Kuan-Han Wu

“…To assess the association of pre-hospital factors with OHCA outcomes among pediatric and adult groups, a retrospective observational study was conducted using the emergency medical service (EMS) database in Kaohsiung from January 2015 to December 2019. …”
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Analysis of tracheal intubation in out-of-hospital helicopter emergency medicine recorded by video laryngoscopy by Jürgen Knapp, Bettina Eberle, Michael Bernhard, Lorenz Theiler, Urs Pietsch, Roland Albrecht

“…Methods We conducted a prospective observational study on all 12 helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) bases of the Swiss Air Rescue, between February 15, 2018, and February 14, 2019. …”
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Modelling cost-effectiveness of replacement strategies for ambulance services in the Ministry of Health Malaysia by Nor Zam Azihan Mohd Hassan, Mohd Shahri Bahari, Sivaraj Raman, Farhana Aminuddin, Mohd Shaiful Jefri Mohd Nor Sham Kunusagaran, Nur Amalina Zaimi, Min Fui Wong, Marhaini Mostapha, Ahmad Tajuddin Mohamad Nor, Mohd Ridzwan Shahari

“…Abstract Background Emergency Medical Service (EMS) is a very crucial aspect of the healthcare system in providing urgent management and transportation of patients during emergencies. …”
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