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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Patient transport"”.
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Investigating Vibration Levels in Neonatal Patient Transport
Canada's first standardized Neonatal Patient Transport System (NPTS) has been introduced in Ontario. Vibrations experienced by neonatal patients during transport in the NPTS have been a concern, since previous studies have suggested that such vibrations could increase morbidity and mortality rates …
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Supporting Transfer Time Predictions in Medical Dispatch using Visualizations of Historical Data
… This is especially true in large-scale medical transport systems, such as Ornge in Ontario, because of the large geographical area serviced and the limited air and land ambulance resources available. Oversight agencies have highlighted the need to support patient transport time prediction for …
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A retrospective descriptive analysis of prehospital advanced airway management in a South African private emergency medical service
… systems have evolved from mostly providing patient transport to healthcare facilities to the provision of emergency care interventions on scene or en route to a healthcare facility. Endotracheal intubation is one of these interventions but despite being performed in the prehospital setting …
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A 12-month retrospective, descriptive study of Hout Bay Volunteer Emergency Medical Service, Cape Town, South Africa
… urgent), and 39.30% of call-outs ended in no patient transport. Response times to Priority 1 call-outs were generally shorter for Hout Bay EMS than those of Provincial EMS within the Hout Bay area. Members largely preferred night shift to day shift by a factor of 4:1; the majority of shifts …
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Assessment of evacuation devices used in South African hospitals
… mobility impairments, which can be difficult for patients, staff, and other evacuees during emergencies. Current hospital emergency preparedness strategies primarily rely on procedural documentation rather than hands-on, scenariobased training. This study investigates both the performance of …
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Percutaneous coronary intervention, repatriation and unplanned readmissions: Characteristics of percutaneous coronary intervention patients who experience an unplanned readmission after repatriation from a tertiary hospital
BACKGROUND The use of air ambulances to transport cardiac patients has grown rapidly over the past decade in New Zealand. There were in excess of 3000 fixed wing air ambulance missions flown in 2005. Both pressurized and unpressurized air ambulances are used. The altitude exposure guidelines for …
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An agent-based model of the emergency medical services system in Nelson Mandela Bay municipality
… mortality for critically ill or injured patients. In the Nelson Mandela Bay district of South Africa's Eastern Cape province, the public EMS system struggles to meet its own response time targets. In addition to long response times, staff and vehicles are not always allocated efficiently, …
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Determining optimal flight paths for cellular network connectivity for the transmission of real-time physiological data in support of big data analytics during airborne critical care transport
… is demonstrated in an airborne critical care transport within the Province of Ontario in Canada context. Leveraging available cellular information, this methodology is used to determine optimal paths between various care centres or their closest airport. Evaluation reveals that optimal routes …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transportation Services in South Africa (A Case Study of Mafikeng Provincial Hospital)
… of effective and efficient non-emergency patient transportation is one of the many access barriers to health care with multiple implications on the medium to long-term wellbeing of patients. This access to health challenge is even a bigger problem for individuals or group of individual …