background: sixty-two percent of the young people between 16 to 24 years-old living in the catchment area of the study take 5 glasses and more in one occasion as compared to 45.8% in the entire france. previous studies showed that if the alcohol consumption starts earlier, the risk for alcohol dependence increases at the adult age. in some countries, the motivational intervention has been alrea...

Medical emergencies that occur in co~~~merc i a l jet aircraft create unique and challenging situations. Providing medical c x e with limited resources, space, support personnel, and equipment creates a suboptimal environment for those physicians who voks~nteer to provide care. Furthermore, some pl~ysicians may "a reluctant to voltenleer to assist in such emergencies gsven the current litigious...

Background: The emergency medical services system has a vital role in the timely treatment of victims and the reduction of injury and mortality rates. Ambulance response time is an essential variable in evaluating the quality of its services. The aim of this study was to determine the ambulance response time and to compare it according to background variables. Methods: This descriptive study ...

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...

Conducting a safe and successful major event highly depends on the effective provision of medical emergency services that are often offered by different public and private agencies. Poor communication and coordination between these agencies and teams can result in delays in decisionmaking and duplication of efforts. Another related issue is that emergency decisions are usually made based on ind...

Background: The challenges of health systems emphasize the need for more motivated employees to perform better and more effectively. Therefore, pervasive attention to job satisfaction of these employees is a matter of course. Objectives: The present study aimed at investigating factors affecting job satisfaction in emergency medical services (EMS) staff of Zanjan Province, Iran, in 2019. Meth...

OBJECTIVES Road traffic injuries are responsible for a vast number of trauma-related deaths in middle- and low-income countries. Pre-hospital emergency medical service (PHEMS) provides care and transports the injured patients from the scene of accident to the destined hospital. The PHEMS providers and paramedics were recently trained in the Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) guidelines to...

Objective: On account of the widespread use of nuclear energy in different fields, nuclear accidents and disasters have been on a rise. Thus, it is crucial for medical staff especially emergency department personnel to be aware of the nature of these accidents. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of training on the knowledge of physicians and nurses regarding nuclear...