For best survival and quality of life, pediatric basic life support (BLS) should be part of a
community effort that includes prevention, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) …

Objective: To demonstrate how the core characteristics of both evidence-based medicine
(EBM) and evidence-based health care (EBHC) can be adapted to health sciences …

Emergency medicine is being established as a unique and independent specialty
throughout the world. Two major models of emergency care delivery exist in the world today …

Background The history of first aid can be traced to the dawn of organized human societies.
For example, Native American Sioux medicine men of the Bear Society were noted for …

Measuring quality in Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) systems is challenging. This
paper reviews the current approaches to measuring quality in health care and EMS with a …

Aims. This paper reports a study to determine nurses' attitudes towards pain assessment
tools and the relationship of these attitudes to education and experience. Background. The …

Over the past decades, continuous technological advances and the availability of novel
therapies have enabled treatment of more acute medical conditions than ever before. Many …

Over the past several years, out-of-hospital EMS have come under increased scrutiny
regarding the value of the range of EMS as currently provided. We used frequency data and …

Aim: To relate the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to whether medication with
adrenaline (epinephrine) was given and whether patients were intubated. Patients: A …

Introduction. In today's health care environment, the demand for objective comparative
information about the performance of health care organizations and providers has created a …