Physician/paramedic vs paramedic HEMS
Two English HEMS services covering the same geographical area, one physican / paramedic crewed and one double paramedic crewed, were […]
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Queensland HEMS intubations
Careflight Queensland report a 9 month series of intubations by their doctor-paramedic HEMS teams who performed 39 intubations (and assisted […]
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Helicopter use in rural trauma
171 rural Australian HEMS missions were retrospectively analysed. Some of the data contrast starkly with the more limelight-occupying urban services: […]
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Pre-hospital ketamine use in London
London HEMS doctors describe their use of ketamine for pre-hospital analgesia and sedation in 1030 retrospectively reviewed cases, concluding its […]
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Failed prehospital intubation attempts and pneumonitis
A review of 1954 out-of-hospital tracheal intubation (ETI) attempts by EMS crews revealed 444 (22.7%) patients experienced one or more […]
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Nurse-delivered prehospital CPAP
A nurse-based pre-hospital care system in Holland describes its experience with pre-hospital CPAP for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema. It appears […]
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Prehospital intubation of children
A prospective observational study of paediatric patients requiring pre-hospital intubation attended by a helicopter medical team (HMT) included 95 children […]
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Interesting literature December 2008
Seasons Greetings! Some delicacies from this month’s literature to add to your Christmas fayre: Some have theorised that giving thrombolytics […]
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Interesting literature November 2008
Here’s the latest update of literature relevant to what we do. Don’t get stressed if you don’t get round to […]
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Interesting literature October 2008
Recent gems from the literature that we could use or should know about: Pre-hospital Care and Trauma There have been […]