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The urgent need for patients’ diagnoses and outcome feedback in Germany’s emergency medical services — insights from a web-based survey
German Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face growing scrutiny due to regional disparities in quality of care. It is unclear if and how feedback in general is currently provided to EMS staff in Germany, and whether EMS staff receives feedback on…
National survey on availability, use and clinical impact of point-of-care blood analysis systems in Swedish emergency departments
Expedited diagnostic results are important in time sensitive operations like the Emergency Department (ED). Point-of-care testing (POCT) is used for a broad range of blood tests reducing wait times and providing faster decisions on patient management…
Effectiveness of extended reality technologies in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: a bayesian network meta-analysis
High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is critical to cardiac arrest patients. Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), provide immersive and interactive training,…
Using an audiovisual feedback device improves cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance during day and night – a randomized controlled simulation study
Survival of in-hospital-cardiac-arrests is lower when they occur at night and at weekends than when they occur during the day. Despite numerous studies, there is little evidence regarding the cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality at night and the…
alidation of the PEACE score for predicting abnormal echocardiographic findings in pulmonary embolism patients
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition requiring rapid risk stratification for optimal management. The Pulmonary Embolism Advanced Cardiac Evaluation (PEACE) Score is a novel tool integrating clinical, laboratory, and…
Co-design of a Mobile Stroke Unit pathway highlights uncertainties and trade-offs for viable system-wide implementation in the English and Welsh NHS
Mobile stroke units (MSUs) are specialist ambulances equipped with scanning and point of care testing that can identify patients eligible for intravenous thrombolysis – medication to dissolve a clot used in ischaemic strokes – and provide this on…
Effectiveness of intraosseous access during resuscitation: a retrospective cohort study
Of the 109,548 patients that were admitted to the ED, 25,686 IV lines were inserted. Documentation of 188 patients of which 73 (38.8%) children was complete and used for analysis. In these 188 patients, a total of 232 IO accesses were placed.…
Correlation between the accuracy of the emergency response centre’s urgency assessment and emergency medical services non-conveyance: a retrospective register-based study in Finland
The proportion of over-triage was the only urgency assessment’s test performance variable that had a statistically significant correlation with the proportion of non-conveyance (r = 0.568; p = 0.003). Other test performance variables of the urgency…
Prehospital factors associated with mortality among road traffic injury patients: analysis of Cameroon trauma registry data
RTIs constituted 69.5% (n = 3203) of all injuries in the Cameroon Trauma Registry. Only 20.7% (n = 102) of 4 + wheel vehicle occupants had seatbelts on and just 2.7% (n = 53) of motorcycle riders were wearing helmets during the collision. Only 4.9%…
Self-care strategies used by disaster responders after the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria: a mixed methods study
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…