Willingness and Barriers to Undertaking Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Reported by Medical Students after the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic—Single-Center Study by Filip Jaskiewicz, Wojciech Timler, Jakub Panasiuk, Katarzyna Starosta, Marcin Cierniak, Remigiusz Kozlowski, Monika Borzuchowska, Klaudiusz Nadolny, Dariusz Timler

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Secure Bluetooth Communication in Smart Healthcare Systems: A Novel Community Dataset and Intrusion Detection System by Mohammed Zubair, Ali Ghubaish, Devrim Unal, Abdulla Al-Ali, Thomas Reimann, Guillaume Alinier, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Junaid Qadir

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Factors associated with physical, psychological and functional outcomes in adult trauma patients following Road Traffic Crash: A scoping literature review by Rayan Alharbi, Ian Mosley, Charne Miller, Stav Hillel, Virginia Lewis

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Pre-Hospital 12-Lead Electrocardiogram within 60 Minutes Differentiates Proximal versus Nonproximal Left Anterior Descending Artery Myocardial Infarction by James J McCarthy, Mary T Vooletich, Stefano Sdringola, David E Persse, John F Ledoux, Vinay R Julapalli, Gregory M Giesler, Ali E Denktas, H Vernon Anderson, Colin M Barker, Robert A Aertker, Richard W Smalling

“…Given the paucity of</p> <p>hospitals capable of PCI, early identification of more severe myocardial infarction may prompt</p> <p>emergency medical service routing of these patients to PCI-capable hospitals. …”
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Clinical Validation of Cardiac Arrest Hospital Prognosis (CAHP) Score and MIRACLE2 Score to Predict Neurologic Outcomes after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Jun-Zuo Wu, Wei-Che Chiu, Wei-Ting Wu, I-Min Chiu, Kuo-Chen Huang, Chih-Wei Hung, Fu-Jen Cheng

“…Adult patients (>17 years) with cardiac arrest who were brought to the hospital by an emergency medical service crew were included. Deaths due to trauma, burn, drowning, resuscitation not initiated due to pre-ordered “do not resuscitate” orders, and patients who did not achieve return of spontaneous circulation were excluded. …”
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Effect of a Targeted Ambulance Treatment Quality Improvement Programme on Outcomes from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Metropolitan Citywide Intervention Study by Xuejie Dong, Liang Wang, Hanbing Xu, Yingfang Ye, Zhenxiang Zhou, Lin Zhang

“…In this retrospective analysis study, we aimed to examine the effect of a citywide quality improvement programme on provision of prehospital advanced life support (ALS) by emergency medical service (EMS) system. EMS-treated adult OHCA patients after the implementation of the programme (1 January 2021 to 30 June 2022) were compared with historical controls (1 June 2019 to 31 August 2020) in Suzhou. …”
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Effect of private versus emergency medical systems transportation in motor vehicle accident victims: Trauma Center Experience in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed S Alshahrani

“…Objective: To assess the effect of the mode of transportation of trauma patients (emergency medical service [EMS] vs. non-EMS) on their final clinical outcome in terms of mortality and length of hospital stay. …”
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Changes in peripheral arterial blood pressure after resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in non-traumatic cardiac arrest patients by Jostein Rødseth Brede, Eivinn Skjærseth, Pål Klepstad, Trond Nordseth, Andreas Jørstad Krüger

“…Methods A prospective observational study performed at the helicopter emergency medical service in Trondheim (Norway). Eligible patients received REBOA as adjunct treatment to advanced cardiac life support. …”
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Shock index increase from the field to the emergency room is associated with higher odds of massive transfusion in trauma patients with stable blood pressure: A cross-sectional ana... by Shao-Chun Wu, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Spencer C H Kuo, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh, Ching-Hua Hsieh

“…Only patients who were transferred by emergency medical service from the accident site with a systolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mm Hg at the ER were included. …”
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The COVID-19 pandemic effect on the prehospital Madrid stroke code metrics and diagnostic accuracy by Nicolás Riera-López, Andrea Gaetano-Gil, José Martínez-Gómez, Nuria Rodríguez-Rodil, Borja M. Fernández-Félix, Jorge Rodríguez-Pardo, Carmen Cuadrado-Hernández, Emmanuel Pelayo Martínez-González, Alicia Villar-Arias, Fátima Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Pablo Busca-Ostolaza, Eduardo Montero-Ruiz, Exuperio Díez-Tejedor, Javier Zamora, Blanca Fuentes-Gimeno

“…Prehospital diagnostic accuracy and the proportion of patients treated at the hospital level with intravenous thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy were not altered with respect to the previous year, showing the resilience of the stroke network and the emergency medical service.…”
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Executive Summary of Stroke Statistics in Korea 2018: A Report from the Epidemiology Research Council of the Korean Stroke Society by Jun Yup Kim, Kyusik Kang, Jihoon Kang, Jaseong Koo, Dae-Hyun Kim, Beom Joon Kim, Wook-Joo Kim, Eung-Gyu Kim, Jae Guk Kim, Jeong-Min Kim, Joon-Tae Kim, Chulho Kim, Hyun-Wook Nah, Kwang-Yeol Park, Moo-Seok Park, Jong-Moo Park, Jong-Ho Park, Tai Hwan Park, Hong-Kyun Park, Woo-Keun Seo, Jung Hwa Seo, Tae-Jin Song, Seong Hwan Ahn, Mi-Sun Oh, Hyung Geun Oh, Sungwook Yu, Keon-Joo Lee, Kyung Bok Lee, Kijeong Lee, Sang-Hwa Lee, Soo Joo Lee, Min Uk Jang, Jong-Won Chung, Yong-Jin Cho, Kang-Ho Choi, Jay Chol Choi, Keun-Sik Hong, Yang-Ha Hwang, Seong-Eun Kim, Ji Sung Lee, Jimi Choi, Min Sun Kim, Ye Jin Kim, Jinmi Seok, Sujung Jang, Seokwan Han, Hee Won Han, Jin Hyuk Hong, Hyori Yun, Juneyoung Lee, Hee-Joon Bae

“…The great burden of stroke in Korea can be reduced through more concentrated efforts to control major attributable risk factors for age and sex, reorganize emergency medical service systems to give patients with stroke more opportunities for reperfusion therapy, disseminate stroke unit care, and reduce regional disparities. …”
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Impact of a ground intermediate transport from the helicopter landing site at a hospital on transport duration and patient safety by Dominik J. Hoechter, Bjarne Schmalbach, Merve Schmidt, Stephan Prueckner, Andreas Bayer

“…Abstract Background Helicopter emergency medical service provides timely care and rapid transport of severely injured or critically ill patients. …”
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Cardiopulmonary arrest in primary care clinics: more holes than cheese: a survey of the knowledge and attitudes of primary care physicians regarding resuscitation by Sharon Einav, Oren Wacht, Nechama Kaufman, Eliezer Alkalay

“…Although just 5% (n = 10) estimated call-to-Emergency Medical Service (EMS) arrival time to their clinic to be <5 min, only 64% (n = 119) knew the telephone number for summoning EMS. …”
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Hyperinvasive approach to out-of hospital cardiac arrest using mechanical chest compression device, prehospital intraarrest cooling, extracorporeal life support and early invasive... by Belohlavek Jan, Kucera Karel, Jarkovsky Jiri, Franek Ondrej, Pokorna Milana, Danda Jiri, Skripsky Roman, Kandrnal Vit, Balik Martin, Kunstyr Jan, Horak Jan, Smid Ondrej, Valasek Jaroslav, Mrazek Vratislav, Schwarz Zdenek, Linhart Ales

“…Patients with witnessed OHCA without ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) after a minimum of 5 minutes of ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) by emergency medical service (EMS) team and after performance of all initial procedures (defibrillation, airway management, intravenous access establishment) will be randomized to standard vs. hyperinvasive arm. …”

Diagnostic accuracy of physician-staffed emergency medical teams: a retrospective observational cohort study of prehospital versus hospital diagnosis in a 10-year interval by Jens-Christian Schewe, Jochen Kappler, Katharina Dovermann, Ingo Graeff, Stefan Felix Ehrentraut, Ulrich Heister, Andreas Hoeft, Stefan Ulrich Weber, Stefan Muenster

“…Methods A retrospective observational cohort study involving the Emergency Medical Service Bonn, Germany, from January to December 2004 and 2014 respectively. …”
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A case report of severe pirimiphos-methyl intoxication: Clinical findings and cholinesterase status by Tobias Zellner, Christian Rabe, Jens von der Wellen-Pawlowski, Dagmar Hansen, Harald John, Franz Worek, Florian Eyer

“…History included alcoholic cirrhosis with alcoholism, adiposity, diabetes with cerebral microangiopathy, chronic renal insufficiency, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, and status post necrotizing fasciitis. Emergency medical service reported an alert patient without signs of cholinergic crisis; activated charcoal and atropine were administered. …”
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Optimizing an Emergency Medical Dispatch System to Improve Prehospital Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndrome: Nationwide Retrospective Study in China by Xuejie Dong, Fang Ding, Shuduo Zhou, Junxiong Ma, Na Li, Mailikezhati Maimaitiming, Yawei Xu, Zhigang Guo, Shaobin Jia, Chunjie Li, Suxin Luo, Huiping Bian, Gesang Luobu, Zuyi Yuan, Hong Shi, Zhi-jie Zheng, Yinzi Jin, Yong Huo

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate whether the use of MPDS was associated with higher prehospital diagnosis accuracy and shorter prehospital delay for patients with ACS transferred by an emergency medical service (EMS), using a national database in China. …”
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Evaluation of the Success of Simulation of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Precision Landing Provided by a Newly Designed System for Precision Landing in a Mountainous Area by Pavol Kurdel, Natália Gecejová, Marek Češkovič, Anna Yakovlieva

“…This article is devoted to the theoretical description and simulation tests of a prototype method of landing the light and the medium-weight UAVs used as supplementary devices for SAR (search and rescue) and HEMS (helicopter emergency medical service) in hard-to-reach mountainous terrains. …”
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Self-Reported Provider Safety in an Urban Emergency Medical System by Furin, Molly, Eliseo, Laura J., Langlois, Breanne, Fernandez, William G., Mitchell, Patricia, Dyer, K. Sophia

“…Introduction: Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel often respond to dangerous scenes and encounter hostile individuals without police support. …”
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Trend in survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and its relationship with bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a six-year prospective observational study in Beijing by Yuling Chen, Peng Yue, Ying Wu, Jia Li, Yanni Lei, Ding Gao, Jiang Liu, Pengda Han

“…Methods In this prospective observational study, data of OHCA patients were collected following the “Utstein style” by the Beijing, China, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) from January 2011 (data from February to June in 2011 was not collected) to October 2016. …”
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