The Experience of the Upu Smurd Floreasca Team during the Earthquakes in Turkey, February 2023 by Bogdan Oprita, Ruxandra Oprita, Teodor-Nicolae Berea, Ionut Olaru, Marian Alexandru Draghici

“…The need for an international consensus for the prehospital care of these patients is needed now more than ever in order to further ameliorate morbidity and mortality that largely occurs due to crush syndrome and its derived complications.…”
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External validation of the SCARE score in identifying acute coronary syndromes during medical regulation of chest pain by Lemoine Augustine, Fontaine Xavier, Duval Camille, Quirin Mathilde

“…Of these, 24 patients (75%) were managed by a prehospital medical team. The AUROC for the SCARE score was 0.80 [95% CI 0.73—0.87]. …”
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Accuracy of Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) in Blunt Abdominal Trauma by Tae Ah Kim, Junsik Kwon, Byung Hee Kang

“…Cases involving penetrating injury, transfer from other hospitals, age ≤ 16 years, prehospital arrest, and no confirmatory test were excluded. …”
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Advances and Challenges in Pediatric Sepsis Diagnosis: Integrating Early Warning Scores and Biomarkers for Improved Prognosis by Susanna Esposito, Benedetta Mucci, Eleonora Alfieri, Angela Tinella, Nicola Principi

“…Although various early warning scores exist, their effectiveness is limited, particularly in prehospital settings where accurate, rapid assessment is crucial. …”
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Clinical Applications of Heart Rate Variability in the Triage and Assessment of Traumatically Injured Patients by Mark L. Ryan, Chad M. Thorson, Christian A. Otero, Thai Vu, Kenneth G. Proctor

“…HRV is potentially useful in trauma as a tool for prehospital triage, initial patient assessment, and continuous monitoring of critically injured patients. …”
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Orthopedic Trauma Epidemiology in Pediatric Patients at a Tertiary Care Trauma Center in North India by Syed Faisal Afaque, Vikas Verma, Farhat Fatima, Ajai Singh

“…Conclusion: Orthopedic trauma in pediatric population is growing up and prehospital care is lagging which is more required than adult counterpart. …”
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Exploring burn first aid knowledge and water lavage practices in Uganda: A cross-sectional study. by Brian Kasagga, Joseph Baruch Baluku, Felix Bongomin, Derrick Kasozi, Eria Muwanguzi, Mercy Namazzi, Yusuf Sadiq, Rose Alenyo, Edris Wamala Kalanzi, Darius Balumuka, Alex Emmanuel Elobu

“…<h4>Background</h4>Low- and middle-income countries experience higher burn-related morbidity and mortality compared to high-income countries. Prehospital Burn First Aid (BFA) improves outcomes. …”
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Elevated Admission Base Deficit Is Associated with a Complex Dynamic Network of Systemic Inflammation Which Drives Clinical Trajectories in Blunt Trauma Patients by Othman Abdul-Malak, Yoram Vodovotz, Akram Zaaqoq, Jesse Guardado, Khalid Almahmoud, Jinling Yin, Brian Zuckerbraun, Andrew B. Peitzman, Jason Sperry, Timothy R. Billiar, Rami A. Namas

“…Using clinical and biobank data from 472 blunt trauma survivors, 154 patients were identified after excluding patients who received prehospital IV fluids or had alcohol intoxication. From this subcohort, 84 patients had a BD ≥ 4 mEq/L and 70 patients with BD < 4 mEq/L. …”
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The Global Burden of Road Injury: Its Relevance to the Emergency Physician by Sharon Chekijian, Melinda Paul, Vanessa P. Kohl, David M. Walker, Anthony J. Tomassoni, David C. Cone, Federico E. Vaca

“…The reduction in crash injury burden is attributed to several factors: public education and prevention programs, traffic safety policies and enforcement, improvements in vehicle design, and prehospital services coupled with emergency and acute trauma care. …”
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Stroke Event Factors among Adult Patients Admitted to Stroke Unit of Jimma University Medical Center: Prospective Observational Study by Ginenus Fekadu, Hunduma Wakassa, Firew Tekle

“…Although thrombolytic treatments are currently not available in our hospital, significant delays during the prehospital or in-hospital phases of care create management difficulties and would make such advanced treatments impossible in the future in Ethiopia. …”
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Early Treatment with Intranasal Neostigmine Reduces Mortality in a Mouse Model of Naja naja (Indian Cobra) Envenomation by Matthew R. Lewin, Stephen P. Samuel, David S. Wexler, Philip Bickler, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, Brett D. Mensh

“…Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors can be therapeutic in neurotoxic envenomations when administered intravenously, but nasally delivered drugs could facilitate prehospital therapy for these patients. We tested the feasibility of this idea in experimentally envenomed mice. …”
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Impact of Treatment on Rate of Biphasic Reaction in Children with Anaphylaxis by William Bonadio, Connor Welsh, Brad Pradarelli, Yunfai Ng

“…Of these, 49 (14%) manifested BPR [84% had received prehospital IM EPI] requiring at least one additional dose of IM EPI [14% required ≥2 additional doses]. …”
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Understanding good communication in ambulance pre-alerts to the emergency department: findings from a qualitative study of UK emergency services by Rachel O’Hara, Joanne Coster, Fiona C Sampson, Jaqui Long

“…Objectives Prehospital notifications (pre-alerts) enable emergency department (ED) staff to prepare for the arrival of patients requiring a time-critical response. …”
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Helicopter EMS Transport Outcomes Literature: Annotated Review of Articles Published 2007–2011 by Brandon S. Brown, Korby A. Pogue, Emily Williams, Jesse Hatfield, Matthew Thomas, Annette Arthur, Stephen H. Thomas

“…As a result of that work, two review articles, one covering HEMS use in nontrauma and the other in trauma, published in 2002 in Prehospital Emergency Care surveyed HEMS outcomes-related literature published between 1980 and mid-2000. …”
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Relationship between the Plasma Levels of Catecholamines and Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Yumi Ichikawa, Yusuke Sawada, Jun Nakajima, Yuta Isshiki, Kazunori Fukushima, Yuto Aramaki, Kiyohiro Oshima

“…There were no significant differences observed between the two groups in age, cause of cardiopulmonary arrest, and prehospital resuscitation time. The plasma levels of Ep and Nep were significantly lower in the ROSC (+) group than in the ROSC (−) group. …”
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Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness by Bilge DELİBALTA, Abdul Samet ŞAHİN, Enes BULUT, Berkay YILDIZ, Abdülkadir GÜNDÜZ

“…In the data collection process, “personal information form” and the “disaster preparedness perception scale of personnel working in prehospital emergency health services” were used. Results: It was found that exposure to disasters, presence of individuals exposed to disasters in the family and environment, participation in disaster exercises, receiving disaster training, willingness to volunteer in disasters, the level of participants' perception of themselves as prepared for disasters, the level of perception of the disaster risk of the region of residence, were effective on the mean total score of the scale. …”
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Evaluation of the Availability and Implementation of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training in Saudi Emergency Medicine Programs by AlHussaini Z, Alsomali S, Ajaj Y, Jameel MA

“…The majority were from the Central EM residency program (51.5%). Education of prehospital healthcare providers was the most reported activity (78%), followed by ride-along (Ground) (75%) and dispatch observation (66.1%). …”
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Dispatcher-Assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Disparity between Urban and Rural Areas by Yen-Chin Chen, Shao-Hua Yu, Wei-Jen Chen, Li-Chi Huang, Chih-Yu Chen, Hong-Mo Shih

“…The 29 districts of Taichung city were divided into urban and rural areas based on whether the population density is more than 1,000 people per square kilometer. Prehospital data were collected according to the Utstein-style template, and telephone auditory records were collected by a dispatch center. …”
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Peripheral oxygen saturation levels as a guide to avoid hyperoxia: an observational study by Renate Stolmeijer, Jan C. ter Maaten, Jack Ligtenberg, Ewoud ter Avest

“…Abstract Background As iatrogenic hyperoxia has been related to adverse outcomes in critically ill patients, guidelines advise to titrate oxygen to physiological levels. In the prehospital setting where partial arterial oxygen (PaO2) values are often not readily available, titration of oxygen is based on peripheral oxygen saturations (SpO2). …”
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Short- and long-term survival after ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with pharmacoinvasive versus primary percutaneous coronary intervention strategy: a prospective cohor... by Sigrun Halvorsen, Jon Michael Gran, Kristin Kvakkestad

“…Consecutive STEMI patients were registered on admission to our PCI centre and classified in a PI or pPCI group, based on the reperfusion strategy chosen in the prehospital or local hospital location. Time and cause of death was provided by the Norwegian Cause of Death registry. …”
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