Emergency medical personnel must take extreme caution when evaluating and treating an athlete with a suspected head or spine injury. While head and neck injuries may continue to be life threatening, the proper management of these injuries may prevent further injury from occurring.

introduction : although many protocols are available in the field of the prehospital medical care (pmc), there is still a notable gap between protocol based directions and applied clinical practice. this study measures the rate of protocol adherence in pmc provided for patients with chest pain and loss of consciousness (loc). method : in this cross-sectional study, 10 educated research assistan...

objective: most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality.   methods: in th...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to determine the states of health care personnel, working at 112 emergency stations in the province of Artvin, to encounter with regarding forensic cases and determine their practices aimed at recognizing, protecting, and reporting the evidences that may affect the forensic process. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was conducted with nurse...

objectives the research question addressed by this paper is, “what are the characteristics and findings of studies on workplace violence against emergency medical services personnel”? data sources a systematic literature review was conducted using online databases (pubmed, scopus, google scholar, and magiran) with the help of experienced librarians. study selection inclusion criteria comprised ...

Disparities in quality of care have always been a major challenge in health care. Providing information to patients may help to narrow such disparities. However, the relationship between level of patient information and outcomes remains to be explored. More importantly, would better-informed patients have better outcomes through their choice of higher quality providers? We hypothesize that medi...

Transforming Guidelines in Routine Practice To the Editor: We have read with great interest the AHA/ASA guidelines on the early management of acute stroke patients,1,2 and we wish to report our experience as regards to the role of Emergency Medical Services (ES) personnel in the management of acute stroke patients. In order to evaluate the role of training on the accesses to our University Hosp...

INTRODUCTION Emergency prehospital medical care providers are frontline health workers during emergencies. However, little is known about their attitudes, perceptions, and likely behaviors during emergency conditions. Understanding these attitudes and behaviors is crucial to mitigating the psychological and operational effects of biohazard events such as pandemic influenza, and will support the...

Introduction: Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are subject to moral hazards during work, leading them to find moral distress (MD). Our literature review showed a gap in knowledge related to MD in EMS personnel. Therefore, this study investigated MD and its influential factors in pre-hospital emergency technicians. Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted in Iran in 2017...