Publications by authors named "Lee Van Vleet"

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  • Drone-delivered automated external defibrillators (AEDs) show potential for improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest response times and CPR quality, with research conducted through timed simulations involving CPR and AED delivery.
  • The study involved 51 participants and found that the median time from a 9-1-1 call to starting CPR was 1 minute and 19 seconds, while retrieving and using the drone-delivered AED took just under 2 minutes.
  • Results indicated that younger participants and those with previous AED experience performed AED tasks faster, but recent CPR training did not significantly influence the quality of CPR or the AED delivery time.
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Effective out-of-hospital administration of naloxone in opioid overdoses is dependent on timely arrival of naloxone. Delays in emergency medical services (EMS) response time could potentially be overcome with drones to deliver naloxone efficiently to the scene for bystander use. Our objective was to evaluate a mathematical optimization simulation for geographical placement of drone bases in reducing response time to opioid overdose.

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Study Objective: To evaluate racial and ethnic disparities in out-of-hospital analgesic administration, accounting for the influence of clinical characteristics and community socioeconomic vulnerability, among a national cohort of patients with long bone fractures.

Methods: Using the 2019-2020 ESO Data Collaborative, we retrospectively analyzed emergency medical services (EMS) records for 9-1-1 advanced life support transport of adult patients diagnosed with long bone fractures at the emergency department. We calculated adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for out-of-hospital analgesic administration by race and ethnicity, accounting for age, sex, insurance, fracture location, transport time, pain severity, and scene Social Vulnerability Index.

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Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for falls among older adults have been linked to poor outcomes when the patient is not transported by EMS to a hospital. However, little is known regarding characteristics of this patient population. Our primary objective was to describe characteristics associated with non-transport among older adult EMS patients encountered for falls.

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Introduction: Hemorrhage is responsible for up to 40% of all traumatic deaths. The seminal CRASH-2 trial demonstrated a reduction in overall mortality following early tranexamic acid (TXA) administration to bleeding trauma patients. Following publication of the trial results, TXA has been incorporated into many prehospital trauma protocols.

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Background: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems exist to reduce death and disability from life-threatening medical emergencies. Less than 9% of the African population is serviced by an emergency medical services transportation system, and nearly two-thirds of African countries do not have any known EMS system in place. One of the leading reasons for EMS utilization in Africa is for obstetric emergencies.

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Introduction: The likelihood of survival from ventricular fibrillation (VF) declines 7%-10% per minute until successful defibrillation. When VF duration is prolonged, immediate defibrillation of the ischemic myocardium is less likely to result in ROSC, and repeated unsuccessful defibrillations are associated with post-resuscitation myocardial dysfunction. Thus, the timing of defibrillation should be based upon the probability of shock success-a function of VF duration.

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Introduction: Without bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), cardiac arrest survival decreases 7%-10% for every minute of delay until defibrillation. Dispatcher-assisted CPR (D-CPR) has been shown to increase the rates of bystander CPR and cardiac arrest survival. Other reports suggest that the most critical component of bystander CPR is chest compressions with minimal interruption.

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