INTRODUCTION The emergency medical services (EMS) system plays a crucial role in the chain of survival for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke. While regional studies have shown underutilization of the 911 system for these time-sensitive conditions, national trends have not been studied. Our objective was to describe the national prevalence of EMS use for AMI and stroke, examine trends...

INTRODUCTION This comprehensive review synthesizes the existing literature on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it relates to emergency medical services (EMS) in order to provide guidance for navigating current and future healthcare changes. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive review to identify all existing literature related to the ACA and EMS and all sections within ...

BackgroundVentricular fibrillation (VF) commonly occurs at home and is unwitnessed. Wearable cardioverter defibrillators (WCD) are effective in terminating VF, but patients may need assistance afterwards.ObjectiveTo evaluate feasibility of a novel shock alert system linking WCD (ASSURE® system, Kestra Medical Technologies) to Emergency Services (EMS).MethodsWCD delivery triggers creation event ...

A powerful approach for determining the biological functions of genes in an organism is to produce mutants with altered phenotypes and physiological responses. Various approaches for mutagenesis involving chemical, irradiation, and insertional methods have been developed; each has advantages and disadvantages for the study of gene function. In this post-genomic era, the use of reverse genetic a...

Introduction Unadjusted effect modifiers (EM) in indirect treatment comparisons (ITC) can produce biased and uncertain results health technology assessments (HTA). Even though research on advanced ITC methods to adjust for EMs has attracted much attention, less emphasis been placed how these are identified assessed the first place. This is surprising given evidence-based approach underpinning a...

The recent technological advances related to embedded systems, and the increased requirements of Electric Vehicle (EV) industry, lead evolution design validation methodologies applied complex in order a product that respects defined according its performance, safety, reliability. This research paper presents methodology, based on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) approach, including software platform ...

background:  emergency  medical  services  (ems)  staff  can  play  an  important  role  in  the survival and prevention of serious injuries to patients if they are in good physical and mental health and focus on doing their jobs with sufficient attention. therefore, a study was conducted to  investigate  attention  level  and  its  related  factors  in  night  shift  prehospital  emergency per...