The Medical Ethics Resource Network (MERN) of Michigan has, over approximately 5 years, become a viable organization for disseminating educational information and raising the general standard of ethics discussion in a variety of institutional settings. This article reviews the history of the network's development, with special emphasis upon features that may suggest useful strategies for other ...

A major purpose of an electronic meeting system (EMS) is recording data, which allows the production of an immediate and unbiased report. But reports produced by commercial EMSs have some weaknesses that make difficult the organisational integration of meeting results. In order to contribute to the solution of this problem, it was developed a new system supported in the concept of communication...

In an emergency, a prompt response can save the lives of victims. This statement generates an imperative issue in emergency medical services (EMS). Designing a system that brings simplicity in locating emergency scenes is a step towards improving response time. This paper therefore implemented and evaluated the performance of an SMS-based emergency geolocation notification system with emphasis ...

Personal autonomy and the right of self-determination are the basis of the right to refuse treatment. They do not grant the right to demand treatment that the responsible doctor regards as not clinically indicated. 'Best interests' operates as a test in relation to patients who are incompetent. The doctor-patient relationship is a joint enterprise with the aim of improving patient welfare as cl...

"Help ... I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!" This line, from the Life Alert television commercial, has become one of today's most famous TV slogans. In fact, mention personal medical-alert systems to most people and they are likely to respond with these words. But often, EMS providers will add some choice words of their own about the problems they have encountered with such systems.

In a retrospective study of the records of 160 necropsies it was found that, according to the clinical and gross necropsy findings, no clinically important abnormality would have been anticipated in 46% of the tissue samples. The estimated annual cost of processing this material alone was pounds 10,500, including the salary of one full time medical laboratory scientific officer (MLSO). Few of t...

The Palestinian emergency healthcare system faces numerous difficulties in its efforts to develop and improve patient care. The Emergency Medical Assistance Project, a four-year, emergency health capacity-building project, is described in this report. The factors contributing to the current lack of in-hospital emergency care and the measures performed to improve the situation are highlighted. T...

OBJECTIVES During the last few years, wireless networks have been increasingly used both inside hospitals and in patients' homes to transmit medical information. In general, wireless networks suffer from decreased security. However, digital watermarking can be used to secure medical information. In this study, we focused on combining wireless transmission and digital watermarking technologies t...

conclusions different factors affect resiliency improvements in medical emergency staff and consequently the quality of pre-hospital burn care. this study showed that various factors such as scene security/safety, effective decision making, self-efficacy and religious support are effective in the improvement of resiliency and the quality of pre-hospital emergency care. results by analyzing 456 ...