The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is partnering with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and the North Carolina Office of EMS to design, develop, and implement an emergency medical services (EMS) performance improvement toolkit to evaluate opportunities to improve the emergency identification and treatment of acute stroke. The EMS Acute Stroke Care Toolkit is bein...

background: injuries or pains occurred at various body's joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves, tendons, limbs, back and neck are classified as musculoskeletal disorders (msds). a single forceful exertion or repeated exposure to force, vibration or awkward posture can result in msds. this study was carried out by evaluating the relevant physical measurements of class b ambulance used in malaysia. ...

Fuel-cell (FC) based electric vehicles (EVs) are promising to reduce the carbon footprint due transportation sector. FCs environmentally friendly systems that generate electricity from hydrogen and oxygen. Unfortunately, solely fail meet high power density requirements of EVs. Therefore, this paper presents a FC/battery/ultra-capacitor (UC) hybrid system (HPS) for vehicle applications. In work,...

background: stroke is a major cause of death and disability in the world and these complications can be decreased by competent emergency care. emergency medical service (ems) transfer half of the stroke patients to hospitals. this study aimed to determine diagnosis of status and transfer time of stroke patients by ems to a main hospital (valiasr) in arak city. materials and methods: this study ...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables to understand the appliance-level behavior of consumers by using only smart meter data, and it mitigates requirements such as high-cost sensors, maintenance/update provides a cost-effective solution. This article presents an efficient NILM-based energy management system (EMS) for residential microgrids. Firstly, data are analyzed with multi-task deep...

Abstract For mission critical (MC) applications such as bushfire emergency management systems (EMS), understanding the current situation a disaster unfolds is to saving lives, infrastructure and environment. Incident control-room operators manage complex information systems, especially with emergence of Big Data. They are increasingly making decisions supported by artificial intelligence (AI) m...

This chapter provides a review of the historical evolution and development in the field of Electronic Marketplaces (EMs) and explores the classifications of EMs. The authors employ a systematic approach to propose a comprehensive definition of EMs and their application with reference to recent advances in the study of EMs. Based on the review of the most cited definitions of EM in the literatur...

With increasing demands for emergency medical services (EMS), many EMS jurisdictions are utilizing EMS provider-initiated nontransport policies as a method to offload potentially nonemergent patients from the EMS system. EMS provider determination of medical necessity, resulting in nontransport of patients, has the potential to avert unnecessary emergency department visits. However, EMS systems...

Objective. Succnic acid mono ethyl ester (EMS) was recently proposed as an insulinotropic agent for the treatment of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. In the present study the effect of EMS and Metformin on the activities of carbohydrate metabolic enzymes in streptozotocinnicotinamide induced type 2 diabeteic model was investigated. Methods. EMS were injected intraperitonially at doses 2...

background prehospital management of gunshot-wounded (gw) patients influences injury-induced morbidity and mortality. objectives to evaluate prehospital management to gw patients emphasizing the protocol of patient transfer to appropriate centers. patients and methods this prospective study, included all gw patients referred to four major, level-i hospitals in mashhad, iran. we evaluated demogr...