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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36960459/working-in-corona-designated-departments-in-a-fortified-underground-hospital-concerns-about-corona-and-predictors-of-job-burnout
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lauren Nashashibi, Marlyn Khouri, Irit Meretyk, Tom Livni, Noga Cohen, Eyal Fruchter
BACKGROUND: In August 2020 during Israel's second COVID-19 wave Rambam Medical Center opened the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This was declared a regional Corona center in the north of Israel, receiving the most severe Corona patients from the region. Alongside the advanced inpatient capacity and technology within the underground facility, there was a severe shortage of trained medical and paramedical staff, as well as harsh working conditions. The current study examined the implications and effects of working in an underground facility on healthcare workers, focusing on emotion regulation tendencies and profession as predictors of job burnout...
2023: Frontiers in Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36959042/-the-gradation-instruction-of-care-an-opportunity-to-integrate-clinical-pharmacy-activities-in-the-cancer-patient-journey
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REVIEW
Nicolas Cormier, Clément Bedoucha, Clarisse Roux-Marson, Antoine Valery, François Dufossez
The ten-year cancer control strategy launched in 2021 highlights the structuring of supportive care as a strong axis to limit the side effects of treatments and simplify the patient's journeys. On the other hand, the "Gradation instruction" published in 2020, introduced new invoicing rules for outpatient hospital wards, which facilitates the coordinated interventions of several health professionals (medical, paramedical, or socio-educational) around patients. Among these professionals, the pharmacist has a particular role, inside the multidisciplinary oncology teams, since cancer oral therapies require therapeutic adherence and a continuum of care with retail pharmacists...
March 21, 2023: Bulletin du Cancer
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36951895/overcoming-language-barriers-in-paramedic-care-with-an-app-designed-to-improve-communication-with-foreign-language-patients-nonrandomized-controlled-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Frank Müller, Dominik Schröder, Eva Maria Noack
BACKGROUND: Communication across language barriers is a particular challenge for health care providers. In emergency medical services, interpreters are mostly not available on rescue scenes, which jeopardizes safe and high-quality medical care. In a cocreative process together with paramedics and software designers, we developed a fixed-phrase translation app with 600 phrases and 18 supported languages that supports paramedics when providing care to foreign-language patients. This paper reports on the results of a pilot study to evaluate the app's effect on paramedic-patient communication...
March 23, 2023: JMIR Formative Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36949540/prehospital-tranexamic-acid-for-trauma-victims
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REVIEW
Kazuhiko Omori, Ian Roberts
The public enquiry into the mass casualty incident at the Manchester Arena in the UK in which 23 people died and over 1000 were injured, identified the need for timely intramuscular administration of tranexamic acid to trauma patients. Since then, a number of studies and trials have been carried out and UK paramedics are now authorized to give intramuscular tranexamic acid in the pre-hospital setting. In Japan, pre-hospital administration by emergency life-saving technicians is not yet authorized, despite the fact that tranexamic acid was invented by Japanese scientists...
March 22, 2023: Journal of Intensive Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36948559/mental-health-of-healthcare-professionals-during-the-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-a-comparative-investigation-from-the-first-and-second-pandemic-years
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gesa S Duden, Julia Reiter, Angela Paswerg, Stephan Weibelzahl
Healthcare staff have been facing particular mental health challenges during the COVID-19-pandemic. Building on a first study at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, we aimed to investigate among healthcare professionals in Germany and Austria (1) how mental health may have changed in professionals over the course of the ongoing pandemic, (2) whether there are differences between different professional groups regarding mental health, (3) which stress factors may explain these mental health outcomes and (4) whether help-seeking behaviour is related to caretaker self-image or team climate...
March 22, 2023: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36947432/ventricular-fibrillation-simulated-electrocardiogram-artifact-by-a-deep-brain-stimulator
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ryan P Strum, Ian R Drennan, Morgan Hillier, Sheldon Cheskes
Deep brain stimulation devices can disrupt cardiac rhythm interpretation by causing electrocardiogram artifact. We report the case of a deep brain stimulating device initiating ventricular fibrillation simulated electrocardiogram artifact in the prehospital setting. Mimicked ventricular fibrillation due to a deep brain stimulator has not been documented, and if unrecognized could influence unwarranted or potentially harmful clinical decisions.
March 22, 2023: Prehospital Emergency Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36936005/family-or-otherwise-exploring-the-impact-of-family-motivation-on-job-outcomes-in-collectivistic-society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samina Yaqoob, Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq, Mamoona Mushtaq, Ali Raza
The motive of the current research is to determine the influence of family motivation on intent to leave and job performance using self-determination theory. Moreover, this study also explores the moderating role of collectivistic culture and the mediating role of psychological meaningfulness on the relationship between family motivation and work outcomes. The data ( N = 175) were collected from paramedical staff working in Pakistani public hospitals, and data was analyzed using PROCESS method. The findings revealed that family motivation enhanced employee job performance and lessened employees' intent to leave...
2023: Frontiers in Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36935659/mental-health-of-public-safety-personnel-developing-a-model-of-operational-organizational-and-personal-factors-in-public-safety-organizations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Megan Edgelow, Agnieszka Fecica, Caroline Kohlen, Kirandeep Tandal
The work of public safety personnel (PSP) such as police officers, firefighters, correctional officers, and paramedics, as well as other PSP, makes them vulnerable to psychological injuries, which can have profound impacts on their families and the communities they serve. A multitude of complex operational, organizational, and personal factors contribute to the mental health of PSP; however, to date the approach of the research community has been largely to explore the impacts of these factors separately or within single PSP professions...
2023: Frontiers in Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36934774/costs-and-survival-of-patients-having-experienced-a-hospitalized-fall-related-injury-in-france-a-population-based-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Mounie, Didier Fabre, Thomas Rapp, Yves Rolland, Hubert Blain, Achille Tchalla, Laure Carcaillon-Bentata, Nathalie Beltzer, Laurence Assous, Sylvie Apparitio, Daniel Caby, Nicolas Reina, Laurine Andre, Laurent Molinier, Nadège Costa
OBJECTIVES: To assess the annual costs 2 years before and 2 years after a hospitalized fall-related injury (HFRI) and the 2-year survival among the population 75+ years old. DESIGN: We performed a population-based, retrospective cohort study using the French national health insurance claims database. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Patients 75+ years old who had experienced a fall followed by hospitalization, identified using an algorithm based on International Classification of Diseases codes...
March 16, 2023: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36932909/-an-accident-waiting-to-happen-experiences-of-police-officers-paramedics-and-mental-health-clinicians-involved-in-911-mental-health-crises-a-cross-sectional-survey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Silke Kuehl, Alice Hyun Min Kim, Susanna Every-Palmer
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT: Police and ambulance staff are increasingly asked to help people experiencing mental health crises, but they often feel under-prepared. The single frontline service approach is time-intensive and risks a coercive pathway to care. The emergency department is the default location for transfers by police or ambulance involving a person involved in a mental health crisis, despite being viewed as suboptimal. WHAT THE PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE: Police and ambulance staff struggled keeping up with the mental health demand, reporting inadequate mental health training, little enjoyment and negative experiences when trying to access help from other services...
March 18, 2023: Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36931964/shaping-the-future-design-of-paramedicine-a-knowledge-to-action-framework-to-support-paramedic-system-modernization
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Timothy Makrides, Madelyn P Law, Linda Ross, Cameron Gosling, Joseph Acker, Peter O'Meara
BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, the demands placed on modern paramedic systems has changed. Paramedic services can no longer continue to operate on a traditional response model where more ambulances are deployed to meet the rising demand of patients calling for their health needs. Recent research has explored system design in paramedicine and its relationship with organizational performance. Two subsequent paramedic systems have been identified with one, the Professionally Autonomous paramedic system, being linked to higher performance...
March 15, 2023: Australasian emergency care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36928257/violence-against-paramedics-protocol-for-evaluating-2-years-of-reports-through-a-novel-point-of-event-reporting-process
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Justin Mausz, Elizabeth A Donnelly
BACKGROUND: Violence against paramedics has been described as a serious public health problem with the potential for significant physical and psychological harm, but the organizational culture within the profession encourages paramedics to consider violence as just "part of the job." Therefore, most incidents of violence are never formally documented. This limits the ability of researchers and policy makers to develop strategies that mitigate the risk and enhance paramedic safety. OBJECTIVE: Following the development and implementation of a novel, point-of-event violence reporting process in February 2021, our objectives are to (1) estimate the prevalence of violence and generate a descriptive profile for incidents of reported violence; (2) identify potentially high-risk service calls based on characteristics of calls that are generally known to the responding paramedics at the point of dispatch; and (3) explore underpinning themes, including intolerance based on gender, race, and sexual orientation, that contribute to incidents of violence...
March 16, 2023: JMIR Research Protocols
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36928241/one-year-quality-of-life-outcomes-of-cardiac-arrest-survivors-by-initial-defibrillation-provider
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brian Haskins, Ziad Nehme, Emily Andrew, Stephen Bernard, Peter Cameron, Karen Smith
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term functional and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors stratified by initial defibrillation provider. METHODS: This retrospective study included adult non-traumatic OHCA with initial shockable rhythms between 2010 and 2019. Survivors at 12 months after arrest were invited to participate in structured telephone interviews. Outcomes were identified using the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOS-E), EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D), 12-Item Short Form Health Survey and living and work status-related questions...
March 16, 2023: Heart
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36924578/the-evaluation-of-treat-and-release-attitudes-of-pre-hospital-emergency-healthcare-professionals-in-case-of-hypoglycemia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hatice Yücel, Ali Eksi, Süreyya Gümüşsoy, Sevgi Oztürk
AIM: It is aimed to evaluate the knowledge of Pre-Hospital Emergency Health Services (PHEMS) staff about the treat and release criteria in hypoglycemia cases and their attitudes in the decision-making processes related to hospitalization. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The sample of this descriptive cross-sectional study consisted of 714 paramedics working in PHEMS in Turkey. A survey developed in Microsoft Forms, which includes various features such as age, gender, years of professional experience, developed in line with the literature, and questions covering treat and release in hypoglycemia cases and absolute hospital transport criteria, was used in the collection of data...
March 14, 2023: International Emergency Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36923062/paramedic-to-provider-consultation-challenges-in-the-emergency-department-in-kazakhstan-an-online-survey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Diana Ygiyeva, Lyudmila Pivina, Assylzhan Messova, Zhanar Urazalina, Yuliya Semenova, Almas Dyussupov, Altay Dyussupov, Tatyana Belikhina, Marat Syzdykbayev, Gulnara Batenova, Ayaulym Akhmetova, Amber Adams
OBJECTIVE: Consultation is an important and necessary aspect of patient care in the emergency department. We prospectively examined difficulties during the consultation process between paramedics and providers in emergency departments in Kazakhstan. METHODS: The paramedics were interviewed using various platforms and face-to-face meetings. Questionnaires were administered to paramedics to gather feedback on the current consultation process. In our survey, 202 paramedics of ambulance from the cities of Semey, Pavlodar, and Ust-Kamenogorsk, located in the North and East of Kazakhstan took part...
2023: Open Access Emergency Medicine: OAEM
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36914186/engaging-emergency-medical-services-to-improve-postacute-management-of-behavioural-health-emergency-calls-a-protocol-of-a-scoping-literature-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marissa L Ding, Danielle J Gerberi, Rozalina G McCoy
INTRODUCTION: The public health crisis of escalating mental health, behavioural and substance-related emergencies has revealed the need to approach these complex events from a health perspective, rather than the traditional criminal justice standpoint. Despite law enforcement officers often being the first responders to emergency calls concerning self or bystander harm, they are not optimally equipped to manage these crises holistically or to connect affected individuals to necessary medical treatment and social support...
March 13, 2023: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36913363/-if-you-miss-that-first-step-in-the-chain-of-survival-there-is-no-second-step-emergency-ambulance-call-takers-experiences-in-managing-out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest-calls
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nirukshi Perera, Tanya Birnie, Austin Whiteside, Stephen Ball, Judith Finn
When a person has an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), calling the ambulance for help is the first link in the chain of survival. Ambulance call-takers guide the caller to perform life-saving interventions on the patient before the paramedics arrive at the scene, therefore, their actions, decisions and communication are integral to saving the patient's life. In 2021, we conducted open-ended interviews with 10 ambulance call-takers with the aim of understanding their experiences of managing these phone calls; and to explore their views on using a standardised call protocol and triage system for OHCA calls...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36901586/a-systematic-review-of-associations-and-predictors-for-job-satisfaction-and-work-engagement-in-prehospital-emergency-medical-services-challenges-for-the-future
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REVIEW
Beatrice Thielmann, Robin Schwarze, Irina Böckelmann
Ambulance services are changing, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been a major challenge in the past three years. Job satisfaction and work engagement are important characteristics for a healthy organization and success in one's profession. The purpose of the current systematic review was to evaluate the predictors of job satisfaction and work engagement in prehospital emergency medical service personnel. Electronic databases, such as PubMed, Ovid Medline, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO, PSYNDEX, and Embase, were utilized in this review...
March 4, 2023: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36897706/cpr-quality-with-rotation-of-every-1-versus-2-minutes-as-characteristics-of-rescuers-a-randomized-crossover-simulation-study
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Dong Hun Kim, Young Woo Seo, Tae Chang Jang
BACKGROUND: Fatigue and rotation time are key factors affecting the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This study aimed to investigate the effects of rotation time on CPR duration, and sex on chest compression quality. METHODS: In this randomized crossover simulation study, we enrolled 100 paramedic students stratified by sex and randomly grouped into 28 male and 22 female pairs. In the 2- and 1-minute scenarios, 2 participants performed CPR for 20 minutes with a rotation cycle of 2 minutes and 1 minute, respectively...
March 10, 2023: Medicine (Baltimore)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36897539/alternative-care-models-for-paramedic-patients-from-long-term-care-centers-a-national-survey-of-canadian-paramedic-services
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shannon Leduc, George Wells, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Peter Kelly, Christian Vaillancourt
INTRODUCTION: Long-term care (LTC) patients do poorly when transported to emergency departments (ED). Community paramedic programs deliver enhanced care in their place of residence, yet few programs are reported in the literature. We conducted a national cross-sectional survey of land ambulance services to understand if such programs exist in Canada, and what the perceived needs and priorities are for future programs. METHODS: We emailed a 46 question survey to paramedic services across Canada...
March 10, 2023: CJEM
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