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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"non-emergency"”.
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Haemodynamic consequences of Spinal Anaesthesia for non-emergency Caesarean section
… preeclampsia. Research methodology included non-invasive measures as well as the use of a pulse wave form analysis monitor to measure maternal cardiac output. A validation study was performed comparing this method with thermodilution in patients with postpartum complications of preeclampsia. …
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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)
… the lack of provision 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 …
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A Double-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Distant Reiki on Pain after Non-emergency Caesarean Section and the Effect of CYP2D6 Variation on Codeine Analgesia
Codeine-containing medication is commonly used for pain after c-section. In most people, 10% of codeine is biotransformed into morphine by the Cytochrome P450 enzyme 2D6 (CYP2D6). Individuals who convert up to 50 fold more codeine into morphine, ultrarapid metaboizers, are at a greater risk for …
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Geo-Analytics of Citizen-Government Interaction: The Integration of Spatial Data Mining, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), And Geovisualization To Explore Non-emergency Requests in the State of Kuwait
… a centralized system for such reports, or non-emergency requests, and it was initiated by the U.S. government in 1996 known as the 311 system. Such centrality facilitated the process to report a complaint with no need of prior knowledge on whom and how to submit the complaint. However, such …
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Safety Investigation of Crash Rates During Hurricane Evacuations
… four distinct periods—evacuation, re-entry, emergency, and non-emergency—during Hurricanes Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), and Michael (2018). A notable gap in existing research pertains to understanding crash rates during these critical phases of hurricane events. By addressing this gap, this …
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You Make the Call: Using Officer Discretion In Selection of Emergency Response Mode for Fire and EMS
… to develop and analyze the effectiveness of emergency and non-emergency response mode criteria. Current and past literature was reviewed looking for similar systems currently in use and studies examining the effectiveness of those programs. National standards and laws were examined to attempt …
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A Priority-based Fair Queuing (PFQ) Model for Wireless Healthcare System
… population that leads to increasing number of emergency situations that require urgent actions. In recent years some of wireless networked medical devices were equipped with different sensors to measure and report on vital signs of patient remotely. The most important sensors are Heart Beat …
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An Assessment Methodology for Emergency Vehicle Traffic Signal Priority Systems
Emergency vehicle traffic signal priority systems allow emergency vehicles such as fire and emergency medical vehicles to request and receive a green traffic signal indication when approaching an intersection. Such systems have been around for a number of years, however, there is little …
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Qualitative inquiry into the decision-making processes for lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes
… people require when making decisions for non-emergency amputation. From three studies, this research established recommendations for supporting amputation decisions including: sharing information about expectations and personal goals in the presence of support networks; initiating early …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experiences of African American Adults in Individual Mental Health Counseling
African Americans continue to access non-emergency mental health care at a lower rate than White Americans, despite have equal risk for mental health issues. Currently, literature in counseling focuses on this deficit and why African Americans do not attend counseling, as opposed to those African …
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Impact of Homeland Security Communities of learning : developing a strategy for training and collaboration
… domestic terrorism increases and the demands on Emergency Responders and the public intensify, a more distributed, efficient, and flexible training and collaboration model is needed to guide future efforts. The current blended learning strategy unintentionally limits collaboration. As learners …
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The Geography of Crime: Examining the Distribution of Break and Enters Across Regina Neighbourhoods Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
… Saskatchewan using calls for service, both emergency and non-emergency, made to the Regina Police Service (RPS) in 2006. The researcher coded and analyzed the data using ArcMap, a Geographic Information System (GIS). Pairing calls for service data with census data from 2006 enabled the …
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An exploration on the use of lung ultrasound by physiotherapists within the cardiac surgery population.
… confidence of physiotherapists assessing day one non-emergency cardiac surgery patients through paper-based questionnaires. The preliminary results from the quantitative phase informed the qualitative data collection, which consisted of semi-structured interviews analysed using the Framework …
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An exploration of the help-seeking experiences of men and women referred to a rapid access chest pain clinic (a cardiac physiologist-managed clinic)
… delay help-seeking for CHD symptoms in an emergency context (i.e. having a heart attack). Many studies have focused on gender and have often suggested that women with emergency CHD symptoms delay help-seeking, although this is controversial. Other studies have suggested help-seeking delay …
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Advanced space-time integration for knowledge discovery in human mobility studies
… kernel approach is proposed to model the non-emergency municipal services demand in Chicago. Second, this work develops novel sequential similarity measures for analyzing human activity-travel patterns and Bayesian networks models with specially designed topology to predict the forthcoming …
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A Framework for Construction-Driven Designs
… increasing demand for faster project delivery of emergency and non-emergency projects, project complexity, and pandemic caused price escalations and material shortages requiring real time pricing and use of available equipment are showing that construction industry needs to shift toward creating …
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The Diffusion and Evolution of 311 Citizen Service Centers in American Cities from 1996 to 2012 - A Study to Identify the Catalysts for the Adoption of Citizen Engagement Technology
… for a more rapid rate of adoption. The 311 non-emergency number was first established in 1996 and had spread to 80 local governments across the United States by 2012. This dissertation examines: what factors contributed to the adoption of 311 in American local governments over 100,000 in …
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Immersive real-time multi-user interaction with computer simulated pedestrians during emergencies
… a key issue in large public assemblies in both emergency and nonemergency scenarios. It is important to be able to train for crowd management and test crowd management procedures for both emergency and non-emergency scenarios, however, full-scale exercises are costly, difficult and time …
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The role of interprofessional collaboration on the discharge planning in the neonatal intensive unit
… data demonstrated that problems arose during an emergency discharge. An emergency discharge occurs when an existing patient on the NICU needs to be discharged to another unit in order to provide a bed for a new admission. The lack of effective communication, role clarity issues, and a need for …
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A cognitive human behaviour model for pedestrian behaviour simulation
… human behaviour in various environments in both non-emergency and emergency situations. These models are applied with the objective to understand the underlying causes and dynamics of pedestrian behaviour and how the environment or the environment’s intrinsic procedures can be adjusted in order …
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