Cardiology
European network created to find sudden cardiac arrest causes and treatments
A European network has been created to find sudden cardiac arrest causes and compare treatments.
Jun 19, 2017
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Cardiology
Smartphone app directs first responders to cardiac arrest three minutes before ambulance
A novel smartphone application (app) has been developed that can direct first responders to cardiac arrest victims more than three minutes before the emergency services arrive. Each minute increases the chance of survival ...
Jun 19, 2017
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Health
Drones carrying defibrillators could aid heart emergencies
It sounds futuristic: drones carrying heart defibrillators swooping in to help bystanders revive people stricken by cardiac arrest.
Jun 13, 2017
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Health
Improving healthcare commissioning for probation: Mapping the landscape
Healthcare services available to people on probation and how they access them will be examined as part of a new research project.
Apr 4, 2017
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Surgery
Medication history for patients on blood thinners is critical to EMS
One change to field triage guidelines for emergency medical services (EMS) responding to older adults with head trauma could make a "clinically important improvement over usual care," according to a study and accompanying ...
Mar 30, 2017
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Cardiology
Cardiac arrest patients do better if taken immediately to a specialist heart center
People who suffer cardiac arrest outside of hospital have a better chance of survival if they are taken immediately to a specialist heart centre rather than to the nearest general hospital, according to research published ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Health
Study participants—especially women—less willing to ride in driverless ambulances
Would you ride in a driverless ambulance? In three separate studies, about half of 1,028 U.S. adults were significantly less willing to be lifted into an automated ambulance, compared with a conventional one, researchers ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Health
Study finds the cost-savings promise of the approach may not be realized
Direct-to-consumer telehealth services—touted as a convenient and less-expensive way to get care for minor ailments—appears to prompt new use of medical services and thus may drive up medical spending rather than trimming ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Wages low, injuries high for emergency medical workers, study says
Wages in the emergency medical service industry are low, employees work long hours often without rest and meal breaks, and injury rates are high, according to a joint study by the University of California, Berkeley's Center ...
Feb 9, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Hospital program demonstrates significant cuts in cancer care costs
A new University of Alabama at Birmingham study shows that, when older cancer patients were paired with trained nonmedical professionals in the form of 'lay navigators,' there was significant decline in health care resource ...
Feb 8, 2017
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