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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"aeromedical"”.
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Dysmenorrhea: An aeromedical clinical practice guideline
… civil and military flight crews. A standardized aeromedical guideline can benefit flight crew members as well as the aeromedial community who cares for them.
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GOUT: An aeromedical clinical practice guideline
… benefits for flight personnel with gout, aeromedical practitioners and the general public.
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An economic analysis of the aeromedical evacuation, patient movement items program
This research examines the Air Force Aeromedical Evacuation, Patient Movement Items (PMI) Program. This thesis analyzes the primary question of cost savings or equipment deferment based on projected casualty rates. It uses a simple linear program, focused on minimizing beginning inventory, and maps …
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Diabetes mellitus in U.S. aviators
… used to treat type 2 diabetes. Results: Several aeromedical agencies do allow pilots with diabetes to operate aircraft, even if they require medical management to include oral or injectable medications for good control of their disease. In general, however, pilots with type 1 diabetes are …
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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
… or post interventional cardiac patients in the aeromedical environment. In the New Zealand context there are no consistent guidelines between the various aeromedical services for the transportation of cardiac patients in air ambulances. OBJECTIVE The objective was to describe the demographic and …
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Dynamic Simulation of General Aviation Cabin Environments and Occupant Restraint Systems
… in real life tests performed at the FAA Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI) with a commercially available dynamics software. Working Model® was chosen based on its performance, availability, and cost. Design students can use the simulation to evaluate cabin arrangements early in the design …
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Enabling massive parallelism for two-stage stochastic integer optimizations a branch and bound based approach
… delivery, strategic airlift, air refueling, aeromedical evacuation operations, etc. around the world. Our formulation of the airfleet allocation problem for a smaller time horizon shows that annual average cost benefits of 3\% can be obtained by using stochastic integer optimization. Despite …
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A comparison of critical care transportation modules taught in bachelor's degrees in emergency medical care in South Africa
… and retrieval, pre-hospital care, and aeromedical transportation. The search strategy was twofold. Firstly peer-reviewed published literature was sourced from established platforms. Secondly, grey literature was sourced from internet sources. An assessment of reliability and validity …
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Flight nurse perceptions of factors influencing clinical decision making in their practice environment
… making in their flight nursing role and in the aeromedical role. These themes included pre-flight preparation, patient status, experience and education of the nurse, and the challenges associated with the physical and atmospheric environments. The majority of participants (73%) worked in more …
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Managing health services support to military operations
… on pre-hospital helicopter medical evacuation, aeromedical evacuation movement between hospitals, managing casualty flows, deployed hospital care, and quality assurance of the medical system. The final theme covers international military medical engagement with medical support systems for …
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Preparing providers for advanced life support in the prehospital environment
… clinicians attached to ambulance, industrial or aeromedical services are often the first providers on scene with the skills and equipment to implement advanced life support (ALS). Despite the essential role of prehospital advanced emergency care in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, …
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A 12-month retrospective descriptive analysis of a single helicopter emergency medical service operator in four South-African provinces
… clinical and mission data of a private, single aeromedical operator in South Africa, over a 12-month period (July 2017 – June 2018) in Gauteng, Free State, Mpumalanga and North-West. Results: A total of 916 cases were included (203 primary cases, 713 interfacility transport (IFT)). The majority …
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An Examination of Headset, Hearing Sensitivity, Flight Workload, and Communication Signal Quality on Black Hawk Helicopter Simulator Pilot Performance
… on pilots with hearing loss. Currently, Army Aeromedical standards stipulate audiometric threshold criteria for rated helicopter pilots to ensure their safe flying. If the standard is not met, a flight waiver for hearing is generally granted if the pilot demonstrates good (at least 84%) …