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introduction: emergency department is one of the most important hospital wards that offers emergency services to unstable patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. however, the way the services are offered reflects the general status of the hospital since patients with the most serious problems frequently refer to the emergency department. emergency department waiting time is one of the indices u...

conclusions the results indicated that suitable facilities and equipment, human resources, and infrastructure were available in the district hospitals in iran. these findings showed that there is potential for the district hospitals to provide care in a wider spectrum. results in this study, 100% of the studied hospitals had oxygen cylinders, running water, electricity, anesthesia machines, eme...

conclusions emergency medical services should be considered as a system with its independent components. establishing an independent ems organization, integrating pre-hospital and hospital emergency under single supervision and management, as well as, extending the possibility of providing ems through private sector are essential in order to make fundamental reforms in providing emergency medic...

The speed with which emergency personnel can provide emergency treatment is crucial to reducing death and disability among acute and critically ill patients. Unfortunately, the rapid development of cities and increased numbers of vehicles are preventing emergency vehicles from easily reaching locations where they are needed. A significant number of researchers are experimenting with vehicular n...

BACKGROUND Many low- and middle-income countries depend on emergency medical technicians (EMTs), nurses, midwives, and layperson community health workers with limited training to provide a majority of emergency medical, trauma, and obstetric care in the prehospital setting. To improve timely patient care and expand provider scope of practice, nations leverage cellular phones and call centers fo...

Background International resuscitation guidelines emphasize performance of high quality chest compressions. In out-ofhospital cardiac arrest Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) play an important role in delivering chest compressions. Delivery of chest compressions is physically demanding and the quality of chest compressions is related to the fitness of the rescuer. Physical fitness may decreas...