Paramedics control space
Paramedics practice ‘‘in the street’’ and perform in ‘‘a context rife with chaotic, dangerous, and often uncontrollable elements with which […]
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Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine
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Pre-hospital arterial lines
Arterial lines in the field? You’ve got to be nuts, or…..French! Yep, the SAMU boys and girls put in 94 […]
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Air medical intubation success
In contrast to literature showing high intubation failure rates by ground paramedics, a review over eight years of 369 intubations […]
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Chest needle too short
This CT study of 110 trauma patients showed: ‘the standard 4.4-cm angiocatheter is likely to be unsuccessful in 50% (95% […]
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Is defib danger overstated
No rescuer or bystander has ever been seriously harmed by receiving an inadvertent shock while in direct or indirect contact […]
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BIS+HEMS
Bispectral index monitoring (BIS) was applied to 57 intubated patients transported by a Helcopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS), demonstrating (1) […]
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Delays to neurosurgery
Further evidence from the UK shows that patients with acute traumatic brain injury suffer delays in the neurosurgical evacuation of […]
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Airtraq use by paramedics
Paramedics intubated simulated patients positioned supine on the floor by direct laryngoscopy (DL) and by using the Airtraq device. Ventilation […]
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Physicians in pre-hospital care
This systematic review by Scandinavian authors examined controlled studies comparing physician with non-physician treatment in pre-hospital care. Fourteen of the […]
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oxygen for myocardial infarction – harmful?
Hyperoxia may reduce coronary artery blood flow, increase systemic vascular resistance, and decrease cardiac output. This paper argues that if […]