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Given the extreme conditions and limited possibilities of external support, sufficient self-care is an essential competence among disaster responders. Self-care strategies can be both external processed such as intake of medicines, social support…

Emergency medical services often serve as the initial point of contact for septic patients, offering crucial pre-hospital intervention opportunities. However, the efficacy of pre-hospital interventions remains uncertain. From this perspective, we’ll…

A total of 4744 patients were included with a median age of 76 years. A serious condition was present in 1398 (29.5%) of the patients. After index assessment by the ambulance service, 3780 (79.7%) were conveyed of which 1334 (35.3%) had serious…

In the 87 457 cases, there was a similar distribution between the primary cases (50.7%) and interfacility transfers (49.3%). Most activations emanated from rural areas (47 980, 54.9%), with respiratory emergencies (30 934, 35.4%), non-cardiac pain…

The EMS personnel reported experiences of violence in a total of 297 identified missions (0.7%) of all EMS missions (n = 40,263). The violence was mostly verbal (62.3%) and the most common violence perpetrator was the patient (98.0%). The police were…

PHCs had designated space for triage with less equipped emergency services and outpatient departments (OPDs) and received severely ill patients rarely. Although prioritizing critical patients and prompt care was part of the services, there was a lack…

A total of 17,2101 and 41,883 patients were enrolled from CMUH and AUH, respectively. EPs achieved F1 core of 0.361 and 0.498 for the primary and secondary outcomes, respectively. All machine learning models achieved higher F1 scores compared to EPs…

Of the 1,643 included anonymous assignment report forms, 52.9% (n = 869) related to patients aged ≥ 65 years. In this population, the mean age was 80.7 years (SD 8.2), 49.6% were female and most were in long-term care, whether as home care recipients…