Prehospital airway equipment on UK HEMS
Prehospital airway management on rescue helicopters in the United Kingdom 26 of 27 identified UK rescue helicopter bases responded to […]
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Tourniquets Revisited
A volunteer study showed that tourniquets were just as effective at occluding distal blood flow measured by doppler signal when […]
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Passenger Compartment Intrusion and Kids
The presence and degree of compartment intrusion (from crash investigation data) was correlated with the likelihood of serious injury in […]
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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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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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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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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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Neonatal prostaglandin E1 and apnoea
The risk of apnoea in neonates requiring prostaglandin E1 infusions for duct-dependent congenital heart disease is well described and often […]