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The Pressing Need for Ventilator Ambulance Services

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Ventilators are used in operating rooms, emergency departments, critical care transport units, and air medical transports. There are three types of ambulances: Advanced cardiac life support Advanced Cardiac Life Support Ambulances (ACLS) are the enhanced version of regular ambulances. Such services can save lives.

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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Im currently in my third year of working in a rural district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department, and one of the things that has struck me most is the use of pre-hospital medicine. Enough about me and my experience… What can you do within pre-hospital care as part of your career?

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Performance of 21 Early Warning System scores in predicting in-hospital deterioration among undifferentiated admitted patients managed by ambulance services

Emergency Medicine Journal

Background The optimal Early Warning System (EWS) scores for identifying patients at risk of clinical deterioration among those transported by ambulance services remain uncertain.

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See what happens when a left main thrombus evolves from subtotal occlusion to total occlusion.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

His wife contacted the ambulance service after the patient experienced an episode of loss of consciousness. The patient was rushed to the nearest emergency department (non-PCI facility) for stabilization. The syncope lasted about 2-3 minutes according to his wife. Pressors could gradually be tapered within 24 hours.

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Being a BASICS Doctor

Mind The Bleep

I am a GP at a large practice based in a town in southwest Scotland, and I also work as a doctor in the Emergency Department in our local district general hospital. Sandpiper provides responders with the ‘Sandpiper Bag’ – a unique approach to packaging emergency medical equipment, as well as automated external defibrillators (AEDs).

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Managing raised intracranial pressure in severe traumatic brain injury – the basics

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The air ambulance service intubated him at the scene and pre-alerted the department before arrival. What neuroprotective measures can we undertake in the emergency department? Neuroprotective strategies should be initiated as soon as possible in the emergency department and continued further in the PICU.

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Sudden Palpitations in a Young Adult

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Magnus Nossen and Ken Grauer ( with Comment by Smith ) The ECG in Figure-1 was electronically transmitted by the ambulance service for evaluation. The patient was transported by EMS to the emergency department, where the ECG was interpreted as showing VT ( V entricular T achycardia ).

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