Rape survivors encounter significant difficulties seeking post-assault health care and medical forensic evidence collection. Numerous studies have found that less than half of survivors treated in hospital emergency departments receive basic services, such as information about the risk of pregnancy, emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy, and information on the risk of STDs/HIV (Amey & Bi...

INTRODUCTION According to national organisations, obstetric services should be able to initiate a caesarean delivery within 30 minutes of the decision to operate. This is uniquely challenging in a small, rural hospital. In 2001, the authors' hospital was unable to meet this guideline reliably. This project demonstrates how we improved our emergency caesarean delivery response time. METHODS Th...

background: emergency department staffs and emergency medicine personnel in particular are exposed to various occupational stresses (psychological traumas). there is little information about the possibility and rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) among the emergency medicine personnel in iran and the world. this study deals with the ptsd prevalence and the influencing factors among th...

background: the success of any organization depends on  the efforts and job satisfaction of its employees. the aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting job satisfaction among the staff of teaching hospitals in hamadan, iran. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study on 350 staff members of 5 teaching hospitals in hamadan. subjects were selected by stratified random s...

BACKGROUND Emergency medical services (EMS) in Thailand have been established for more than 20 years. However evaluation of EMS is limited The present study aimed to determine providers 'perspectives on EMS in Thailand MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study was conducted at the tenth Academic Annual Meeting of Emergency Medicine between February 9 and 13, 2009 at Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok. A...

This study proposed a Context-Aware emergeNcy rEmedy system (CANE), based on the operations of a real hospital, to provide complete and convenient functions for emergency processes and medical consultants using mobile communication networks. The CANE system combines emergency medical services with GIS/GPS technology, mobile multimedia communications and context-aware controls. The CANE system l...

The purpose of this policy is to provide an outline of, as well as references concerning the resources and planning needed to meet the emergency medical care needs of the individual and the community. Emergency departments* must possess the staff and resources necessary to evaluate all individuals presenting to the emergency department (ED). Emergency departments must also be able to provide or...

Cyanide poisoning must be seriously considered in victims of smoke inhalation from enclosed space fires; it is also a credible terrorism threat agent. The treatment of cyanide poisoning is empiric because laboratory confirmation can take hours or days. Empiric treatment requires a safe and effective antidote that can be rapidly administered by either out-of-hospital or emergency department pers...