Purpose Trauma-related preventable death (TRPD) has been used to assess the
management and quality of trauma care worldwide. However, due to differences in …

Background: Injury severity scales have traditionally been used to assess the perform ance
of prehospital trauma triage protocols, but they correlate weakly with the urgent needs of …

BACKGROUND Recent civilian and military data from the United States and the United
Kingdom suggest that further reductions in mortality will require prehospital or preoperating …

Background Trauma is a leading cause of mortality. Holistic views of trauma systems
consider injury as a public health problem that requires efforts in primary, secondary and …

Intravenous nanoparticle hemostats offer a potentially attractive approach to promote
hemostasis, in particular for inaccessible wounds such as noncompressible torso …

Background The emergency department (ED) plays an important role in out-hospital-cardiac
arrest (OHCA) management. However, ED outcomes are not widely reported. This study …

Objective To determine the frequency of finger thoracostomy performed by intensive care
flight paramedics after the introduction of a training programme in this procedure and …

Introduction Patients' attitudes toward medical errors (MEs) have been studied relatively
extensively in developed countries around the world, but little is known about Central Asian …

Objective Ambulance dispatch algorithms should function as clinical prediction rules,
identifying high acuity patients for advanced life support, and low acuity patients for non …

Aim In this study, we examine the impact of a trauma-based resuscitation protocol on
survival outcomes following emergency medical services (EMS) witnessed traumatic out-of …