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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Medical emergencies"”.
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Pharmacists' Preparedness For Acute Medical Emergencies
… community pharmacists are to respond to acute medical emergencies, as well as their perceived efficacy in addressing these situations. Specifically, it considered what training pharmacists have for responding to medical emergencies, what emergency medical equipment pharmacies have on-hand, the …
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The clinical use and indications for head computed tomography scans in paediatric ambulatory care (short stay ward and medical emergencies) at a children’s hospital over a one-year period, 1st January-31st December 2013
… of children presenting with acute illness to the medical emergency unit, excluding trauma, of Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, over one year (2013) were retrospectively reviewed. Participants were included if they underwent head CT scan within 24 hours of presentation. …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
… position on crews and are provided very little medical training, leaving them particularly vulnerable to medical emergencies when responding to remote incidents. The history of firefighter safety policy creation is marked by reactions to visceral accidents, yet there are examples of more …
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Emergency Medical Services Response Optimization
Time-sensitive medical emergencies are responsible for one-third of all deaths worldwide and similarly affect both developed and developing countries. Emergency medical services (EMS) provide rapid out-of-hospital treatment for time-sensitive medical emergencies. In this thesis, we combine …
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Community-based perceptions of emergency care in communities lacking formalised emergency medicine systems
… member focus groups identified frequency of emergencies, perceptions of emergency care, perceived barriers to emergency care, and ideas for potential interventions. Results: Analysis of the focus group data identified several common themes. Community members in Zambia and Kenya experience a …
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Development of an Emergency Medical Services Plan for Commercial Spaceflight Events in Spaceport America
… Spaceport America will require an emergency medical services (EMS) plan to prepare for and deal with medical emergencies that may arise during commercial spaceflight activities. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this capstone project was to assess Spaceport America’s EMS needs and to develop an EMS plan …
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Principal Perceptions of Training Needs in School Safety in Virginia
… the most training on the school safety topics of medical emergencies, managing bomb threats, and responding to crisis incidents. Principals at the elementary, middle, and high school levels all reported that they needed more training in the area of dealing with disruptive and assaultive students …
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Wireless Monitoring of Driver's Pulse Rate and Temperature Using Hand Gloves Approach
… This study aims to monitor people with known medical emergencies or other medical conditions while driving [1]. It also helps the co-passengers to be cautious while the person is driving with an abnormal health condition. Designed it to be convenient and also can be easily adaptable by the end …
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Design optimization of oxygenated fluid pump
In medical emergencies, an oxygen-starved brain quickly suffers irreparable damage. In many cases, patients who stop breathing can be resuscitated but suffer from brain damage. Dr. John Kheir from Boston Children's Hospital created a compressible fluid that can re-oxygenate blood quickly in …
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Factors associated with Death outside health facilities in Lusaka District
… murder and all such conditions that are medical emergencies and do not give someone chance to even go to the hospital. It also includes such conditions as are not curable like cancer and all HIV/.AIDS related conditions. Financial inacce>.sibilit\ constituted 14,7%. followed b> poor …
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Passenger Traits That Predict the Bystander Intervention Model Steps During an Inflight Assault on a Flight Attendant
… reactions to similar events such as bullying, medical emergencies, injuries, and violent attacks, but none dedicated to a flight attendant assault or passenger reactions to it.</p> <p>At the core of bystander action is the bystander effect, which postulates the inhibiting effect that others …
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Improving Situation Awareness (SA) and Performance: The Role of the Three Levels of SA and SA-Oriented Interventions to Drive Effective Emergency Response
… develop SA in both fire and non-fire emergencies, and by testing how targeted SA interventions can improve SA and performance and reduce workload. The first study in this dissertation identified the goals, sub-goals, decisions, and information requirements for firefighters to build SA …
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Missed opportunities for the detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms : a retrospective study of eighteen patients presenting with a ruptured or acute symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm
… percent. The majority of these cases present as medical emergencies, with 50 percent dying before they reach hospital. Twenty percent are not operated on because of an incorrect diagnosis and of the surviving 30 percent, there will be a peri-operative mortality of 40 percent. Thus only 20 percent …
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A descriptive study of patients presenting with a chief complaint of seizures to the prehospital emergency care practitioner of the Western Cape
… time-sensitive and potentially life-threatening medical emergencies presenting to emergency centres and attended to by prehospital emergency care practitioners. These require a rapid response, prompt identification and appropriate management. There is a paucity of information describing the …
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Methodologies for Systematic Evaluation and Targeted Mitigation of Deficiencies in Critical Machine Learning Models
… assess models' ability to respond to serious medical emergencies. Using generated test cases, we found that statistical machine-learning models trained solely from patient data are grossly insufficient and have many dangerous blind spots. Specifically, we identified serious deficiencies in the …
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Exploration of competency requirements and current training models in remote medical emergency response in the oil and gas industry of Nigeria: a mixed method study.
Medical Emergency Response (MER) in remote work locations such as the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry industry might encounter challenges with potential delay in response time and negative consequences. The aim of this study was to explore current practices in remote MER in the O&G industry of Nigeria, …
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New MRI Techniques for Nanoparticle Based Functional and Molecular Imaging
… to enhance their performance and expand the biomedical applications of 19F MRI with PFC NP. With the use of both theoretical and experimental methods, we evaluated J-coupling modulation, chemical shift and paramagnetic relaxation enhancement of PFC molecules in PFC NP. Our unique contribution to …
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An evaluation of the appropriateness of emergency medical service (EMS) responses in the eThekwini health district of KwaZulu-Natal
… the Degree of Master of Technology: Emergency Medical Care, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.
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Medical application of the Internet of Things (IoT): prototyping a telemonitoring system
… and the associated early response to medical emergencies. Statistics and research show that there are areas in the medical field, that still need improvement to enhance service delivery. The Nursing Times has summed up these areas into four categories. The first one is a need to have a …
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