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Key barriers included:
- limited 24/7 AED access
- poor coverage in residential areas
- lack of centralised
- real-time AED registries
- insufficient public training
- legal concerns for lay responders
- patchy integration with EMS
- device & maintenance costs
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Patients with severe liver injury may carry a high risk of complications with significant mortality. Non-operative management (NOM) is increasingly common for severe injuries and may be associated with lower morbidity when compared with surgery.
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#Prehospital diagnosis and management of supraventricular tachycardia – a scoping #review
#free & #openaccess on #SJTREM
An editorial on our "Early transfusion strategies in haemorrhagic shock collection".
The collection at #SJTREM presents a series of studies that aim to enhance our understanding of early transfusion strategies in haemorrhagic shock. 🅰️ 🆎 🅱️ 🅾️
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This season has seen a sharp rise in avalanche deaths.
This narrative review looks through survival curves, professional society guidelines, snow burial studies, #prehospital care, #triage, #transport & best practice in hospital care for avalanche patients.
LiVE-STROKE
"Video is not routinely used for stroke assessment during emergency calls...Implementation of a structured protocol for live video guided stroke examinations during emergency calls could be beneficial"
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Pain first: rethinking early analgesia in emergency trauma care
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1. Analgesia must start on scene
2. Analgesia without intravenous access may serve as a bridge to intravenous pain management.
3. Expanding the therapeutic reach of prehospital providers
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"The #ECLS-#OHCA trial will provide complementary randomized evidence on the impact of expedited time-to-flow & protocolised LV unloading on neurological outcomes in refractory shockable OHCA & will explore the cost-effectiveness of this"
Read now on #SJTREM
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Prognostic value of machine learning for brain computed tomography as a predictor of neurologic outcomes after cardiac arrest: a systematic review and meta-analysis
#MachineLearning #CTH #CTB #CT #prognostication #ROSC #FOAMed
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-induced coagulopathy (ECMO-IC) represents a frequent & severe complication, contributing to oxygenator replacement & unfavorable outcomes.
This study describes development of a ML model to estimate ECMO-IC risk & modifiable RF.
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Effectiveness and safety of techniques for cervical spine immobilization in mountain rescue.
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Using special sensor technology, this study investigated whether a cervical spine orthosis provides greater stability than a vacuum mattress alone.
Early Methylene Blue for Mortality Reduction in High-Dose VasoPREssor-Dependent Septic Shock (EMPRESS): protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Bridging practice and evidence: insights from the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Saudi #CriticalCare Society #Guidelines on trauma-related #VTE
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Cardiac arrest in adult patients following burn injury: a scoping review with expert recommendations on management
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#CPR #Review #Burns #FOAMed #ALS #resuscitation #CardiacArrest
"#Research on Explainable artificial intelligence (#XAI) in #emergency #medicine is expanding rapidly and is increasingly shaped by a small group of influential journals and authors. However, critical gaps remain.."
Adaption of the 5-second round to critically ill non-trauma patient care
- 5 seconds for patient safety – is the patient stable enough for handover?
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“Artificial Intelligence in Pre-hospital and Critical Care: Innovations, Applications, and Future Directions”
This special collection explores the rapidly evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in pre-hospital and critical care settings.
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#OnThisDay post, features Darwin's portrait beside a 'Did You Know?' fact from Springer Nature. The text explains Darwin didn't use the term 'evolution' in the first edition of his book 'On the Origin of Species,' but 'descent with modification'.
Born on February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of life on Earth. #OnThisDay, we celebrate International Darwin Day, and the naturalist whose voyage on the HMS Beagle and his book 'On the Origin of Species' reshaped biology and evolution. 🌿🔬
This is the first Priority Setting Partnership focused specifically on post-collision care in the UK; integrating the perspectives of patients, carers, bystanders, clinicians, policymakers, & researchers, to produce priorities that are directly actionable & relevant
This (STEPS) approach covers both technical and nontechnical factors that can influence the safe delivery of anaesthesia.
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The aim of this mnemonic is to provide a cognitive framework that can be utilised in real-time to better identify the perceived and latent threats surrounding #emergency #anaesthesia
Emergency #anaesthetic management in #critically ill and injured patients: the STEPS approach (self, team, environment, patient and system)
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"SCIs from MVCs are relatively rare, but disproportionately affect lower income countries " -
Spinal cord injury in the context of major motor vehicle collision #trauma: a retrospective ecological analysis of global estimates across income group
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#SCI #MVC
The impact of the Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee (SNC) guidelines for pediatric head trauma...
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Objective of this study: To investigate the effects of SNC guideline implementation on the utilisation of CT, #emergency department (ED), LOS & inhospital admission
"This comprehensive systematic review of the literature identified 84 patients, who were treated with ECPR because of a TCA during the acute phase following injury. The results of this meta-analysis..suggest that ECPR may be feasible & potentially beneficial in selected patients .."
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (#ECPR) is considered infeasible in patients with #traumatic cardiac arrest (#TCA).
We conducted a systematic literature review...on the use of ECPR in TCA patients...
From major scientific breakthroughs to shifts in how we learn, digital books have shaped the past 20 years. Rediscover key moments of 20 years of eBook collections on our interactive timeline: spklr.io/63320DMd4a
#AcademicPublishing #eBooks #Publishing
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"readers of SJTREM will have seen a remarkable series of papers from the EXIT Project, now part of IMPACT– The Centre for Post-Collision Research, Innovation & Translation, led by Dr. Tim Nutbeam. These studies..mark a paradigm shift in prehospital medicine..."
