Objective Time is considered an essential determinant in the initial care of trauma patients.
Salient tenet of trauma care is the 'golden hour', the immediate time after injury when …

INTRODUCTION: Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) are popular in first world
health systems despite inconsistent evidence in the scientific literature to support their use …

Importance The termgolden hourwas coined to encourage urgency of trauma care. In 2009,
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates mandated prehospital helicopter transport of critically …

Introduction The concept of the “Golden Hour” has been a time-honored tenet of prehospital
trauma care, despite a paucity of data to substantiate its validity. Non-compressible torso …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The first hour after the onset of out-of-hospital traumatic injury is
referred to as the “golden hour,” yet the relationship between time and outcome remains …

Background Injury is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in the United States.
Accordingly, expanding access to trauma care is a Healthy People priority. The extent to …

Objective: To address the clinical and regulatory challenges of optimal primary endpoints for
bleeding patients by developing consensus-based recommendations for primary clinical …

Background and Purpose—Only 3% to 5% of patients with acute ischemic stroke receive
intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (r-tPA) and< 1% receive …

BACKGROUND Trauma is time sensitive, and minimizing prehospital (PH) time is
appealing. However, most studies have not linked increasing PH time with worse outcomes …

Background: Opioid overdoses are at epidemic levels in the United States. Emergency
Medical Service (EMS) providers may administer naloxone to restore patient breathing and …