Emergency medical services prehospital response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US: a brief literature review

CAI Ventura, EE Denton, JA David… - Open Access …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to analyze prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) response to the
COVID-19 pandemic in the US through a brief systematic review of available literature in …

[HTML][HTML] Locating emergency medical services to reduce urban-rural inequalities

W Luo, J Yao, R Mitchell, X Zhang, W Li - Socio-Economic Planning …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems provide fundamental services in
relation to public health and safety. The spatial configuration of EMS stations is crucial to the …

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses among Paramedicine Clinicians: Analyses of US Department of Labor Data (2010–2020)

BJ Maguire, BJ O'Neill - Prehospital and disaster medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Objective: Paramedicine clinicians (PCs) in the United States (US) respond to 40 million
calls for assistance every year. Their fatality rates are high and their rates of nonfatal injuries …

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An individual patient data meta-analysis

E Baldi, C Klersy, P Chan, J Elmer, J Ball, CR Counts… - Resuscitation, 2024 - Elsevier
Aim Prior studies have reported increased out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) incidence
and lower survival during the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated how the COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Mental health risk factors related to COVID-19 among Canadian public safety professionals

S Wagner, PM Di Nota, D Groll, L Lentz… - Psychiatry …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Public safety personnel (PSP) are known to experience difficult and demanding
occupational environments, an environment that has been complicated by the COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 pandemic effect on the prehospital Madrid stroke code metrics and diagnostic accuracy

N Riera-López, A Gaetano-Gil, J Martínez-Gómez… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Only very few studies have investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic
on the pre-hospital stroke code protocol. During the first wave, Spain was one of the most …

Impact of COVID-19 on emergency department management of stroke and STEMI. A narrative review

WH Banfield, O Elghawy, A Dewanjee… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in a global pandemic; COVID-19
has resulted in significant challenges in the delivery of healthcare, including emergency …

[HTML][HTML] Explore pre-hospital emergency challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: a quality content analysis in the Iranian context

M Hadian, A Jabbari, M Abdollahi, E Hosseini… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background pre-hospital emergency is a community-oriented system that responds to the
medical needs of the injured or patients with acute and emergency illnesses outside of …

A national study on the comparative burden of pedestrian injuries from falls relative to pedestrian injuries from motor vehicle collisions

AG Rundle, RP Crowe, HE Wang, JR Beard… - Journal of urban …, 2024 - Springer
Pedestrian injuries from falls are an understudied cause of morbidity. Here, we compare the
burden of pedestrian injuries from falls occurring on streets and sidewalks with that from …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department length of stay and clinical outcomes of patients with severe pneumonia: a single-center …

JY Ha, WY Sung - Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
We examined the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the emergency department length of
stay (EDLOS) and clinical outcomes of patients with severe pneumonia admitted to the …