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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"emergency care"”.
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Emergency care assessment tool for health facilities
… measurement tool for evaluating essential emergency service provision. One major obstacle is the lack of consensus on a standardized evaluation framework, applicable across a variety of resource settings. The African Federation for Emergency Medicine has developed an assessment tool, …
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A descriptive analysis of emergency care provided in Northern Somalia
Emergency care is an integral part of an effective healthcare system. However, emergency care systems remain largely underdeveloped in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia is in the horn of Africa. Decades of civil war, political instability, and terrorism …
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Emergency care assessment tool for health facilities: a validity study in Cameroon
… measurement tool for evaluating comprehensive emergency service provision. One major obstacle is the lack of consensus on a standardised evaluation framework, applicable across a variety of resource settings. The African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) developed an assessment tool …
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Emergency care practitioner students’ satisfaction with simulation across two universities in South Africa
… strategy that has been used in South African Emergency Care Practitioner training for at least a decade. No authors had previously measured the satisfaction of South African ECP students with simulation learning. Objective The objectives of this study were to explore the simulation …
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Community-based perceptions of emergency care in communities lacking formalised emergency medicine systems
… However, neither country has an integrated emergency care system that provides community access to high-quality emergency services. There has been recent interest in strengthening the emergency care systems in these countries, but before any interventions are implemented, an assessment of …
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Assessing the cost-effectiveness of facility-based emergency care in low resource settings
Background Emergency conditions comprise nearly half of the total global burden of disease, and disproportionately affect low-resource settings (LRS). This burden of life-threatening yet treatable conditions can be ameliorated by effective, timely emergency care (EC) interventions, so significantly …
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Facility-based capacity assessment of emergency care services in public hospitals in Zambia
… highlights the need for effective and efficient emergency care. Despite this, emergency care is a neglected sector of the health system in most low and middle-income countries. Funding and resource allocations are often small and have little impact on the development of emergency care systems, …
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Evaluation of the World Health Organization’s basic emergency care course and online cases in Uganda
Background Uganda lacks formal emergency care training programs to address its high burden of acute illness and injury. The Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) rolled out the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course, the first openaccess short course to provide comprehensive …
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Automation Framework for Exploration Medicine (AFEM): A path for integrating automation into autonomous emergency care
… We posit that integrating automation into the care paradigm can address the challenges to medical care in long-duration spaceflight posed by resource gaps (e.g., training, access to expertise, and tools). However, it is not clear what aspects of the exploration care paradigm are most …
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Preparedness of emergency care providers to deal with death, dying and bereavement in the prehospital setting
… for the degree of Master of Health Science: Emergency Medical Care, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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A decade of fundamentals of emergency care (FEC) course evaluation: Update from the last two years
Introduction: The Fundamental of Emergency Care (FEC) is a short course designed to give key skills and approaches to emergency care for non-specialist healthcare providers. This course has been running since 2012 primarily from the Western Cape of South Africa, open to all medical professionals …
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An assessment of emergency care capacity at hospitals in Harare Metropolitan: A descriptive cross-sectional study
… economic, and social factors impacting its healthcare system. To describe the evolution of emergency medicine in Africa, emphasising the contextual factors derailing its development in Zimbabwe. To give an overview of African EC systems, focusing on Zimbabwe's unique challenges and advancements. …
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Managing emergency care operations through optimal patient routing decisions and predictive demand estimation during public health crisis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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The Effect of Written Information and Reassurance on Patient Satisfaction, Anxiety, and Intent to Return for Emergency Care
… satisfaction is one of the primary goals of emergency department (ED) providers today. As emergency departments are overcrowded, stressful environments, anxious patients want to be kept informed. Nurses have the opportunity to meet these needs and possibly influence the patients' perception …
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Metoclopramide vs Prochlorperazine for the treatment of Nausea and Vomiting in the Emergency Care Setting: A Scoping Review
… of aetiologies. Patients frequently present to emergency care providers seeking treatment for nausea and vomiting. Metoclopramide and prochlorperazine are well established drugs that have long been used in the treatment of nausea and vomiting. This scoping review aims to map out the available …
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Prehospital emergency care provider’s understanding of their responsibilities towards a mental health care user, during a behavioural emergency
Background: Prehospital emergency care providers in South Africa are regularly called to assist with the management of mental healthcare users. The Mental Health Care Act no 17 of 2002 regulates mental healthcare in South Africa but makes no reference to the roles and responsibilities of …
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Gender-based violence: strengthening the role and scope of prehospital emergency care by promoting theory, policy and clinical praxis
… highest femicide rate in the world. Prehospital Emergency Care providers appear to be well positioned (as first responders) to respond to abuse early. The aim was to understand and strengthen current/potential practice of domestic violence intervention by prehospital emergency medical systems in …
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Describing the use of social media as a point-of-care tool in facility-based emergency care in Africa
… is used to provide real-time clinical support to emergency care providers. It can be particularly beneficial for those in Africa, who might lack adequate training or access to information. This PhD aimed to describe the use of social media as a point-of-care telemedicine tool in facility-based …
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Out-of-hospital assessment and management of rape survivors by pre-hospital emergency care providers in the Western Cape
… worldwide. No direct policy exists for the emergency care provider management of rape victims in the pre-hospital setting. The pre-hospital exposure to rape cases is unknown as its health information system is not gender-based violence sensitive. In the absence of a clearly defined protocol, …
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