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Publikováno v:
Prehospital Emergency Care. 14:340-344
Emergency medical services (EMS) responses to some scenes are potentially more dangerous than others, requiring EMS systems to develop policies that stage medical responders away from the scene until law enforcement has the area secured.We sought to
Publikováno v:
Prehospital Emergency Care. 12:24-29
EMS systems use call prioritization to distinguish between high and low acuity patients, better use resources, and set system response times. Previous research focused on patient condition; however, recent research has reviewed patient acuity as an i
Publikováno v:
Academic Emergency Medicine. 10:955-960
Objectives: To analyze the accuracy of paramedic emergency medical services (EMS) dispatchers in predicting cardiac arrest and to assess the effect of the caller party on dispatcher accuracy in an advanced life support, public utility model EMS syste
Autor:
Alex G. Garza, Kathleen W Wyrwich
Publikováno v:
Academic Emergency Medicine. 10:360-363
The standard gamble is a method used to measure health utilities of varying health states and allow for comparisons across populations and different clinical settings. These health utility scores are useful as measures of outcome for quality of life
Autor:
Mark T. Steele, Mark Steele, Ellen J. Westdorp, Alex G. Garza, O. John Ma, David K. Roberts, William A. Watson
Publikováno v:
Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology. 38:609-613
The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of positive plasma drug screening for cocaine or amphetamine in adult emergency department seizure patients.This prospective study evaluated consecutive eligible seizure patients who had a p
Improved patient survival using a modified resuscitation protocol for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Autor:
Rex Archer, Dan Lindholm, James McElroy, Joseph A. Salomone, Matthew C Gratton, Alex G. Garza
Publikováno v:
Circulation. 119(19)
Background— Cardiac arrest continues to have poor survival in the United States. Recent studies have questioned current practice in resuscitation. Our emergency medical services system made significant changes to the adult cardiac arrest resuscitat
Publikováno v:
Prehospital emergency care. 12(3)
Emergency medical services (EMS) literature has studied paramedic performance with endotracheal intubation; however, there are few data describing environmental differences between out-of-hospital and in-hospital providers during intubation attempts.
Publikováno v:
Prehospital emergency care. 9(2)
Pediatric cardiac arrest patients and adult traumatic arrest patients are perceived as more difficult to endotracheally intubate than adult cardiac arrest patients. The study hypothesis was that these populations were at higher risk of endotracheal i
Publikováno v:
The Journal of emergency medicine. 25(3)
This study's objective was to determine the effect of paramedic experience on orotracheal intubation success in prehospital adult nontraumatic cardiac arrest patients. This retrospective study analyzed all attempted intubations of prehospital adult n
Publikováno v:
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 10(9)
To analyze the accuracy of paramedic emergency medical services (EMS) dispatchers in predicting cardiac arrest and to assess the effect of the caller party on dispatcher accuracy in an advanced life support, public utility model EMS system, with grea