Sources of disagreement among public and private agency paramedics.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effect of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak on the willingness of laypersons to provide bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) using standard CPR (SCPR) or compression-only CPR (CCPR) was evaluated. The preferred type of SCPR in the post-SARS era was assessed. METHODS:A descrip...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Lam KK,Lau FL,Chan WK,Wong WN

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This paper is a report on an exercise designed to reveal the extent of belief in the common myths about disasters held by members of four groups of students from the University of Massachusetts and three groups of trainee emergency workers from Italy. METHODS:A questionnaire was administered in which stud...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Alexander DE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical dilemmas can create moral distress in even the most experienced emergency physicians (EPs). Following reasonable and justified approaches can help alleviate such distress. The purpose of this article is to guide EPs providing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) direction to navigate through common ethical issues ...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Brenner JM,Aswegan AL,Vearrier LE,Basford JB,Iserson KV

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Emergency pediatric life support (EPLS) of children infected with transmissible respiratory diseases requires adequate respiratory protection for medical first responders. Conventional air-purifying respirators (APR) and modern loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirator-hoods (PAPR-hood) may have a dif...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Schumacher J,Gray SA,Michel S,Alcock R,Brinker A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report is a summary of a study 1 conducted at the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences to evaluate collaboration during crisis management. The study includes relevant legal and regulatory dynamics, as well as conclusions and recommendations. Rules and regulations of international interest are presented in the Ap...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Kulling P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Professional behavior is one of the cornerstones of effective emergency medical services (EMS) practice and is a required part of the National Standard Curricula for advanced levels of EMS education. However, peer rating of emergency medical technicians with respect to the 11 categories of professional beh...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Brown WE Jr,Margolis G,Levine R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study Objectives Traction splinting has been the prehospital treatment of midshaft femur fracture as early as the battlefield of the First World War (1914-1918). This study is the assessment of these injuries and the utilization of a traction splint (TS) in blunt and penetrating trauma, as well as intravenous (IV) ana...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Nackenson J,Baez AA,Meizoso JP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was aimed to analyze post-disaster birth outcomes in coastal and inland regions of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. METHODS:Primary data sets were compiled from birth records of obstetric facilities and 12,808 patients were analyzed for baseline birth outcomes by region. Regional risk analysis of the lo...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Sugawara J,Iwama N,Hoshiai T,Tokunaga H,Nishigori H,Metoki H,Okamura K,Yaegashi N

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:On 18 July 2001, a train hauling hazardous materials, including hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, and acetic acid, derailed in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, resulting in a fire that burned under a downtown street for five days. Firefighters were stymied in their efforts to extinguish the fire, and t...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Hsu EB,Grabowski JG,Chotani RA,Winslow JA,Alves DW,VanRooyen MJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last five years, the debate on the performance of humanitarian assistance has intensified. The motivation to "do better" has come both from within the humanitarian agencies as well as from pressure exerted by the donors and the media. Paradoxically, until now, the voice of those who are to benefit from this...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Griekspoor A,Sondorp E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the recommendations of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM; Madison, Wisconsin USA) to develop standards for training the undergraduates in disaster-relevant fields (2004), a German curriculum was approved in 2006. This paper aims to describe the level of training and i...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Wunderlich R,Ragazzoni L,Ingrassia PL,Corte FD,Grundgeiger J,Bickelmayer JW,Domres B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mildly injured and "worried well" patients can have profound effects on the management of a mass-casualty incident. The objective of this study is to describe the characteristics and lessons learned from an event that occurred on 28 August 2005 near the central bus station in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The unique...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Bloch YH,Leiba A,Veaacnin N,Paizer Y,Schwartz D,Kraskas A,Weiss G,Goldberg A,Bar-Dayan Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12 January 2010 earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti caused >200,000 deaths, thousands of injuries requiring immediate surgical interventions, and 1.5 million internally displaced survivors. The earthquake destroyed or disabled most medical facilities in the city, seriously hampering the ability to deliver...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Missair A,Gebhard R,Pierre E,Cooper L,Lubarsky D,Frohock J,Pretto EA Jr

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction Previous studies have found that older adults are more likely to use Emergency Medical Services (EMS) than younger adults, but the reasons for this remain understudied. Hypothesis/Problem This study aimed to determine if older age is associated with using EMS for transportation to an emergency department ...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Jones CMC,Wasserman EB,Li T,Amidon A,Abbott M,Shah MN

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Introduction To aid in preparation of military medic trainers for a possible new curriculum in teaching junctional tourniquet use, the investigators studied the time to control hemorrhage and blood volume lost in order to provide evidence for ease of use. Hypothesis Models of junctional tourniquet could perf...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Kragh JF,Lunati MP,Kharod CU,Cunningham CW,Bailey JA,Stockinger ZT,Cap AP,Chen J,Aden JK,Cancio LC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Introduction The 11th of March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck alongside the north-east coast of Honshu Island, Japan, causing a tsunami and a major nuclear accident. The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) set up, within one week after the triple catastrophe, an Internet-based reg...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Motreff Y,Pirard P,Lagrée C,Roudier C,Empereur-Bissonnet P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass gatherings have a higher patient presentation rate than is found within the general population. Despite this fact, many mass gatherings are occurring without suitable medical coverage. South Africa has had no standard approach or model to determine the number of medical personnel needed to deploy to an event. The...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Smith WP,Wessels V,Naicker D,Leuenberger E,Fuhri P,Wallis LA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Using an ambulance as an attack modality offers many advantages to a terrorist organization. Ambulances can carry more explosives than most vehicles and can often bypass security. Yet, studies examining how terrorist organizations have incorporated ambulances into their attacks are lacking. STUDY OBJECTIV...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Jasani GN,Alfalasi R,Cavaliere GA,Ciottone GR,Lawner BJ

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A common chief complaint to emergency dispatch communication centers worldwide is "breathing problems". The chief complaint of breathing problems represents a wide spectrum of underlying diseases, patient conditions, and onset types. The current debate is on the potential ability of a dispatch protocol to ...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Clawson J,Olola C,Heward A,Patterson B,Scott G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contamination of the environment, ambulance equipment, and staff hands consequently are major factors which create nosocomial infections in emergency patients. The contamination of equipment and devices plays an important role in nosocomial infections. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine t...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Farhadloo R,Goodarzi Far J,Azadeh MR,Shams S,Parvaresh-Masoud M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The importance of accessing care within the first hour after injury has been a fundamental tenet of trauma system planning for 30 years. However, the scientific basis for this belief either has been missing or largely derived from case series from trauma centers. This study sought to determine the correlat...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Báez AA,Lane PL,Sorondo B,Giráldez EM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a form of an infectious respiratory disease, discovered in November 2012 in Saudi Arabia. According to the World Health Organization (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) reports, a total of 2,519 laboratory-confirmed cases and 866 MERS-CoV-related deaths were recorded a...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Alabdali A,Almakhalas K,Alhusain F,Albaiz S,Almutairi K,Aljerian N

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:No universally accepted methods for objective evaluation of the function of the Incident Command System (ICS) in disaster exercises currently exist. An ICS evaluation method for disaster simulations was derived and piloted. METHODS:A comprehensive variable list for ICS function was created and four distinct...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Thomas TL,Hsu EB,Kim HK,Colli S,Arana G,Green GB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detonation of a nuclear device in a US city would be catastrophic. Enormous loss of life and injuries would characterize an incident with profound human, political, social, and economic implications. Nevertheless, most responders have not received sufficient training about ionizing radiation, principles of radiati...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Blumenthal DJ,Bader JL,Christensen D,Koerner J,Cuellar J,Hinds S,Crapo J,Glassman E,Potter AB,Singletary L

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this discussion is to review the use of destinations other than the hospital emergency department, to transport patients injured as a result of a mass-casualty incident (MCI). A MCI has the ability to overwhelm traditional hospital resources normally thought of as appropriate destinations for the transp...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Glassman ES,Parrillo SJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology of pediatric emergency medical services (EMS) practice in a large patient population from several geographic areas. DESIGN:Retrospective computer analysis of EMS databases from four states using a common data set and analysis system. SETTING:Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Mississippi,...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Joyce SM,Brown DE,Nelson EA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the basic principles around establishing a Disaster Medicine Camp and the organization of the Ukrainian Disaster Medicine Mobile Hospital, which provided medical aid to victims of the 2001 earthquake in India. All of the information was obtained through direct observation and estimates based on ...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Roshchin GG,Mazurenko OV

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the performance of two pediatric length-based tapes (Broselow and Handtevy) in predicting actual weights of US children. METHODS:In this descriptive study, weights and lengths of children (newborn through 13 years of age) were extracted from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination ...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Lowe CG,Campwala RT,Ziv N,Wang VJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The role of the base-hospital and on-line medical control in a disaster has not been investigated previously. This study assesses the roles of base-hospitals and the value and feasibility of on-line medical control during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. METHODS:The researchers studied five Bay Area count...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Palafox J,Pointer JE,Martchenke J,Kleinrock M,Michaelis J

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Morbidity and mortality due to acute but treatable conditions remain high in the developing world, as many significant barriers exist to providing emergency medical care. This study investigates these barriers in a rural region of Ethiopia. HYPOTHESIS:The limited capacity of frontline healthcare workers t...

journal_title：Prehospital and disaster medicine

authors： Levine AC,Presser DZ,Rosborough S,Ghebreyesus TA,Davis MA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00