SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT ANKYLOSIS: INITIAL EXPERIENCES by Celal Çandırlı, Ezher Dayısoylu, Fatih Taskesen

“…Gap arthroplasty with temporalis muscle and fascia flap repositioning was performed in 6 patients, transport distraction osteogenesis was performed to form a neocondyle in one patient and TMJ prosthesis was replaced in one patient. …”
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Overcoming the challenges of community-engaged emergency referrals in a rural district of Pakistan by Imran Naeem Abbasi, Sameen Siddiqi

“…An ambulance service under contract with health department and private transporters were taken on-board to facilitate patients’ transportation. Community’s experiences of referral system were assessed through qualitative in-depth interviews. …”
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Comparing Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Scores to End-tidal Carbon Dioxide as Mortality Predictors in Prehospital Patients with Suspected Sepsis by Christopher L. Hunter, Salvatore Silvestri, George Ralls, Amanda Stone, Ayanna Walker, Neal Mangalat, Linda Papa

“…Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study among patients transported by emergency medical services to compare the use of ETCO 2 ≤ 25 mmHg with qSOFA score of ≥ 2 as a predictor of mortality or diagnosis of severe sepsis in prehospital patients with suspected sepsis. …”
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Outcomes of Trauma and Their Relationship With Pre-hospital Time Intervals in Patients Admitted to a Hospital in Qazvin, Iran by Peyman Namdar, Faranak Norian2, Zohreh Yazdi, Ehsan Modirian

“…Methods In this descriptive study conducted in 2018, the medical records of 700 patients transported to Shahid Rajaei Hospital in Qazvin by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulances were examined which were selected from 3200 cases using a systematic sampling method. …”
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Organization of prehospital medical care for patients with cerebral stroke by Nikolai Anatolyevich Shamalov, A M Sidorov, A L Lukyanov

“…The main tasks of prehospital medical care are to make a correct diagnosis of stroke and to minimize patient transportation delays. Stroke is a medical emergency so all patients with suspected stroke must be admitted by a first arrived ambulance team to a specialized neurology unit for stroke patients. …”
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The impact of prehospital emergency services on the outcome of trauma patients by Mahboub Pouraghaei, Samad Shams Vahdati, Payman Moharamzadeh, Laleh Abrishami, Moloud Balafar

“…Demographic information, trauma mechanism, patients' transportation, location and duration of hospitalization and the final outcomes of the patients were evaluated. the predictive power of the shock index in hospitalization and mortality was studied. …”
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Successful recovery of a young man with traumatic brainstem ischemia in a motor vehicle accident by Dražen Radanović, Kristina Peić, Dušan Elboursh, Đurđina Bogosavljević, Jovana Antonijević, Uroš Mirčić, Bojan Čukić, Srbislav Pajić

“…Conclusion: Timely patient transportation from the accident site to the Emergency Center, followed by an appropriate multidisciplinary treatment approach and intensive neuroprotective and neuroregenerative therapy, along with organism reperfusion, played a pivotal role in the neurological, and subsequently, overall patient recovery in this case presentation. …”
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Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China by Yuan Guo, Yanchu Li, Yanjun Wang, Pengpeng Liang, Xiaoli He, Bingjie Yu, Fangyu Chen, Qianhui Zeng

“…We identified three optimum pathways and estimated safety boundary marks, including a patient transportation border (PTB) and safety transportation border (STB). …”
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The cost-effectiveness of home phototherapy for hyperbilirubinemia in neonates: results from a randomized controlled trial by Miriam Pettersson, Linda Ryen, Mats Eriksson, Andreas Ohlin

“…The cost per patient was €337 for home phototherapy compared with €1156 for the hospital alternative indicating average cost savings of €819 (95% confidence interval €613–1025) or 71% per patient. Transportation and outpatient costs were higher in the home treatment group and hospital care costs were higher in the hospital group. …”
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Compliance on Patient’s Admission Protocol of Birth Center Personnel in the 5th District of Camarines Sur, Philippines by Leni Malabanan

“…Three top most factors that affects the compliance of birthing facility personnel on admission protocol are financial stability of the patient, transportation resources, and the distance of the hospital from the birthing facility. …”
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CATEGORY OF MARKETING OF RELATIONS IN MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS by A Yu Abramov, D I Kicha, O V Rukodainiy

“…Based on the results of the research, the role of the individual characteristics of patients (gender, age, occupation, relationship to the composition of patients, transport accessibility, organization of admission) in the formation of relations between consumers and providers of medical services is shown. …”
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The cost of hemodialysis in Iran by Arefzadeh Alireza, Lessanpezeshki Mahboub, Seifi Sepideh

“…The estimated cost of each HD session was about 74 US dollars by which an annual cost of $11549 could be estimated for each patient. Transportation and work leaves (28.9%), staff costs and salaries (21.5%), and treatment instruments (21.1%) were among the greatest expenses. …”
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Fast track to stroke unit for patients not eligible for acute intervention, a case–control register study on 1066 patients by Ingela Wennman, Helle Wijk, Katarina Jood, Eric Carlström, Bengt Fridlund, Linda Alsholm, Johan Herlitz, Per-Olof Hansson

“…The outcomes of Fast Track patients, transported directly to stroke unit (cases) were compared with the outcomes of patients who fulfilled these critera for Fast Track, but instead were transported to the ED (controls). …”
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Detection of Stroke with Retinal Microvascular Density and Self-Supervised Learning Using OCT-A and Fundus Imaging by Samiksha Pachade, Ivan Coronado, Rania Abdelkhaleq, Juntao Yan, Sergio Salazar-Marioni, Amanda Jagolino, Charles Green, Mozhdeh Bahrainian, Roomasa Channa, Sunil A. Sheth, Luca Giancardo

“…Acute cerebral stroke is a leading cause of disability and death, which could be reduced with a prompt diagnosis during patient transportation to the hospital. A portable retina imaging system could enable this by measuring vascular information and blood perfusion in the retina and, due to the homology between retinal and cerebral vessels, infer if a cerebral stroke is underway. …”
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Balloon atrial septostomy under echocardiographic guide: case series by Tabib A, Mortazaeian H, Meraji SM, Birjandi H

“…According to the feasibility of this technique it could be performed fast, safe and effective at bedside, avoiding patient transportation to hemodynamic laboratory or referral center.…”
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Coronavirus host divergence and novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak by Kadir YEŞİLBAĞ, Gizem AYTOĞU

“…Since infected patients transported out of China, the outbreak status was quickly changed into pandemic. …”
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Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on epidemiology, treatment, and outcome of major trauma in Japan in 2020: a retrospective observational nationwide registry‐based study by Masahiro Ojima, Kenichiro Ishida, Yusuke Katayama, Tomoya Hirose, Shunichiro Nakao, Jotaro Tachino, Tomohiro Noda, Yutaka Umemura, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Kosuke Kiyohara, Tasuku Matsuyama, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Jun Oda, Mitsuo Ohnishi

“…Methods Among patients transported directly from the injury site by ambulance with an Injury Severity Score of ≥16, we compared patients managed from April to December in 2019 to those managed from April to December in 2020. …”
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The personalized telemedical system of Obereg for remote patient's monitoring by A. A. Eremenko, N. V. Rostunova, S. A. Budagyan, A. V. Kurnosov

“…The device can be used for individual and group monitoring in intensive care units, in in-patient settings after transfer from intensive care, during rehabilitation for remote monitoring at home, and during patients' transportation to monitor their condition in case of emergency.…”
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A QoS-Aware IoT Edge Network for Mobile Telemedicine Enabling In-Transit Monitoring of Emergency Patients by Adwitiya Mukhopadhyay, Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas, Venkat P. Rangan, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

“…This work proposes an IoT-based mobile medical edge (IM²E) node to be integrated with wearable and portable devices for the continuous monitoring of emergency patients transported via ambulances and it delves deeper into the existing challenges, such as (a) a lack of a simplified patient risk scoring system, (b) the need for architecture that enables seamless communication for dynamically varying QoS requirements, and (c)the need for context-aware knowledge regarding the effect of end-to-end delay and the packet loss ratio (PLR) on the real-time monitoring of health risks in emergency patients. …”
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Syndecan-1 as a severity biomarker for patients with trauma by Keiko Suzuki, Keiko Suzuki, Hideshi Okada, Kazuyuki Sumi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Ryo Kobayashi, Ryo Kobayashi, Takuma Ishihara, Yosuke Mizuno, Fuminori Yamaji, Ryo Kamidani, Tomotaka Miura, Tomotaka Miura, Ryu Yasuda, Yuichiro Kitagawa, Tetsuya Fukuta, Kodai Suzuki, Takahito Miyake, Norihide Kanda, Tomoaki Doi, Takahiro Yoshida, Shozo Yoshida, Shozo Yoshida, Nobuyuki Tetsuka, Shinji Ogura, Akio Suzuki, Akio Suzuki

“…A single-center, retrospective, observational study was conducted at Gifu University Hospital. Patients transported to the emergency room for trauma and subsequently admitted to the intensive care unit from January 2019 to December 2021 were enrolled. …”
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