Publications by authors named "E C FOOTE"
Background: Road traffic injury is the leading cause of death among young people globally, with motor vehicle collisions often resulting in severe injuries and entrapment. Traditional extrication techniques focus on limiting movement to prevent spinal cord injuries, but recent findings from the EXIT project challenge this approach. This paper presents updated recommendations from the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) that reflect the latest evidence on extrication practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To develop and validate a simplified Bleeding Audit Triage Trauma (sBATT) score for use by lay persons, or in areas and environments where physiological monitoring equipment may be unavailable or inappropriate.
Design: The sBATT was derived from the original BATT, which included prehospital systolic blood pressure (SBP), heart rate, respiratory rate, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), age and trauma mechanism. Variables suitable for lay interpretation without monitoring equipment were included (age, level of consciousness, absence of radial pulse, tachycardia and trapped status).
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- Extreme hyperbilirubinemia in newborns is a major issue in low- and middle-income countries like Bangladesh, leading to significant health risks, especially since many births occur at home without screening or treatment.
- A cluster randomized trial will involve 530 pregnant women in rural Bangladesh, where community health workers (CHWs) will screen and provide home treatment for newborns with jaundice, comparing results to traditional care methods.
- The study aims to determine if CHW-led home phototherapy can effectively increase treatment rates for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, potentially allowing for similar programs in other low-income settings to improve newborn health outcomes.
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- * A study in rural Bangladesh, which involved 23 newborns, explored how feasible and acceptable a CHW-led home phototherapy intervention was for families, revealing that it was seen as convenient and cost-saving.
- * Despite some concerns about CHWs’ skills and power supply reliability, both families and CHWs rated the home phototherapy positively, suggesting further research is needed to assess its impact on treatment rates and health outcomes.
Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represented a formidable scientific and technological challenge to public health due to its rapid spread and evolution. To meet these challenges and to characterize the virus over time, the State of California established the California SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Initiative, or "California COVIDNet". This initiative constituted an unprecedented multi-sector collaborative effort to achieve large-scale genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across California to monitor the spread of variants within the state, to detect new and emerging variants, and to characterize outbreaks in congregate, workplace, and other settings.
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