... Support; EMCC: Emergency Medical
Communication Centre; EMS: Emergency medical service; EMT: Emergency
medical technician; GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale; LEMC: Local Emergency
Medical Centre; MOI: Mechanism ... assessed
emergency medical service (EMS) documentation of key logistic, physiologic, and mechanistic variables in motor
vehicle accidents (MVAs).
Methods: Records from police, Emergency Medical Communication ... Medical Operative
Manual (MOM). The study variables selected (Table 1)
were based on core data listed in the Norwegian
national health legislation, the MOM, the Norwegian
Index of Emergency Medical...
... transportation. Skilled medical volunteers and the
military medical teams were facilitators of the early
phase of the medical response. The main obstacles to
the pre-hospital medical response were ... the medical system.
Absence of disaster medical assistance team
Another obstacle in the pre-hospital medical response
during the Bam earthquake was the absence of standar-
dized disaster medical ... earthquake, was the lack of standar-
dized disaster medical teams.”
Another expert mentioned that “Due to the lack of
structured medical teams, untrained medical volunteers
that were involved in rescuing...
... Cocke R: A regional Medical operations center
improves disaster response and inter-hospital trauma trans-
fers. Am J Surg 2006, 192:853-859.
4. Kleine KR, Nagel NE: Mass medical evacuation: Hurricane ... most of
them teenagers. The following investigation revealed cer-
tain short-comings regarding the medical response, recog-
nizing the need of a regional point of contact ("POC")
and command ... further training in disaster
medicine as well as in depth knowledge about the availa-
ble regional medical resources) and a back-up physician
on call on weekly (RBL; a senior surgeon or anesthesiolo-
gist...
... ward.
Materials and methods
Patient population
All acutely hospitalised medical patients admitted to the
medical emergency ward as well as medical patients
admitted directly to ICU, Odense University Hospital ... the medical ward or directly to the ICU as
medical patients. Of these, 206 were transferred from
other wards or had previously participated in the study.
The remaining 437 consecutive acute medical ... treatment in the
medical emergency ward is still unknown, but it would be
possible to test this with, for example, a randomised
design.
In conclusion
In acutely hospitalised medical patients,...
... area
53
Search and
rescue mission
4
Medical training
exercise
25
Amis forms
included
5 105
With additional
medical records
4 551 (89% )
Without additional
medical records
554 (11% )
Figure 1 ... 27
medical emergencies per 1 000 inhabitants per year [7].
However, the definition of an emergency was wider in this
study than the classification of a red response based on
the Index of Medical ... involved, copies of medical records were
requested by mail from the project manager directly to
the person or agency involved. Several reminders were
needed during collection of medical records from...
... anaesthesiologists in
patients with severe trauma: an audit of a
Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service
Stephen JM Sollid
1,2*
, Hans Morten Lossius
1,3
, Eldar Søreide
2,3
Abstract
Background: ... in
severely traumatised patients treated by anaesthesiologists in a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service
(HEMS).
Methods: A retrospective audit of prospectively registered data concerning ... experience of
the pre-hospital ALS provider [6]. To avoid these issues,
some pre-hospital emergency medical systems (EMS),
including the national helicopter emergency system
(HEMS) in Norway, have...
... observed by medical practitioners was not
to be determined solely or even primarily by medical
practice. It was for the court to judge what standard
should be expected from the medical profession ... avoiding unacceptable results where
small pockets of medical opinion might otherwise
determine the standard, even where the great majority of
medical opinion would take a diff erent view [13]. ... Australian
medical- legal perspective
Stephen J Huang and Anthony S McLean*
VIEWPOINT
*Correspondence: mcleana@med.usyd.edu.au
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital School, Sydney Medical...
... prospectively
and analysis of medical resource utilization was intended
for the individual studies. Second, both study designs
were open label, which may have affected medical
resource utilization; ... Interestingly, each measure of medical
resource utilization was nearly identical for patients in
the doripenem group, regardless of whether P. ae r ug ino sa
Table 2: Medical resource utilization ... associated with increased medical resource utilization, but few
randomized studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect of initial antibiotic therapy. To assess medical resource
utilization...
... and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Foundation, the Univer-
sity Hospital Basel, the Medical University Clinic Liestal, the Medical Clinic
Buergerspital Solothurn, the Cantonal Hospitals Muensterlingen, ... patients who participated in this study. Especially,
we thank the staff of the emergency departments, medical clinics and central
laboratories of the University Hospital Basel, the Cantonal Hospitals ... medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Research
Prohormones for prediction of adverse medical
outcome in community-acquired pneumonia and
lower respiratory tract infections
Philipp...
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23. Krishnan JA, Parce PB, Martinez A, Diette GB, Brower RG: Caloric intake in
medical ICU patients: consistency of care with guidelines and
relationship to clinical outcomes. ... study to find out
the proportion of prediabetes in patients with acute coronary
syndrome in a medical college of Kolkata. J Indian Med Assoc 2008,
106:776-778.
44. Nakamura T, Ako J, Kadowaki ... prospective observational study of the
relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU
patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes Critical Care 2010,
14:R130
Gornik...
... injection gun by a helicopter-transported emergency medical
team. J Trauma 2009, 66:1739-1741.
15. Zakariassen E, Burman RA, Hunskaar S: The epidemiology of medical
emergency contacts outside hospitals ... all medical records from the period May 2003 to April 2010, and compared three different
techniques: Bone Injection Gun (B.I.G® - Waismed), manual bone marrow aspiration needle (Inter V - Medical ... 18:223-229.
doi:10.1186/1757-7241-18-52
Cite this article as: Sunde et al.: Emergency intraosseous access in a
helicopter emergency medical service: a retrospective study.
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency...
... EMCC organization.
Background
The emergency medical communication centre (EMCC)
and the emergency medical dispatchers (EMD) is a part
of the emergency medical services (EMS) and the first
link ... study was to evaluate if the
performance in emergency medical dispatching changed in a smaller community outside Helsinki after the
emergency medical call centre organization reform in Finland.
Methods: ... study was to evaluate if the perfor-
mance in emergency medical dispatching changed in a
smaller community outside Helsinki after the emergency
medical call centre organization reform in Finland.
Material...
... Surgical and medical
emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective
study of 10189 cases. Crit Care 2009, 13:R3.
2. Ruskin KJ, Hernandez KA, Barash PG: Management of in-flight
medical emergencies. ... 78:973-978.
4. Thibeault C, Evans A; Air Transport Medicine Committee, Aero-
space Medical Association: Emergency medical kit for com-
mercial airlines: an update. Aviat Space Environ Med 2007, ... Critical Care Vol 13 No 1 Ruskin
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aerospace medical researchers, and the traveling public.
Sand and colleagues’ study should serve as a template...
... 4
Research
Non-invasive stroke volume measurement and passive leg raising
predict volume responsiveness in medical ICU patients: an
observational cohort study
Steven W Thiel, Marin H Kollef and Warren Isakow
Pulmonary ... represents an endogenous volume
challenge that can be used to predict fluid responsiveness.
Methods Medical intensive care unit (ICU) patients requiring
volume expansion were eligible for enrollment. ... of
85%.
Conclusions Non-invasive SV measurement and PLR can
predict fluid responsiveness in a broad population of medical
ICU patients. Less than 50% of ICU patients given fluid boluses
were volume responsive.
Introduction
Circulatory...