Feeling safe or unsafe in prehospital emergency care: A qualitative study of the experiences of patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

Aims And Objectives: To determine the feelings of safety among patients taken to hospital after requesting urgent care, based on their experiences and those of their carers and prehospital emergency care professionals.

Background: Little research has been performed into the perception of safety in prehospital emergency care settings worldwide, from either the perspective of the patients or from that of healthcare professionals.

Design: Exploratory qualitative study using focus groups in Spain.

Development and Validation of a Safety Scale Perceived by the Witness of Prehospital Emergency Care.

Objective: The aim of the study was to design and validate a new tool to measure the security perceived by witnesses of patient care and hospital transfers, after requesting urgent assistance via the "061" phone number.

Methods: This is a descriptive observational, cross-sectional, design, and validation study of a scale conducted by telephone interview. Witnesses of urgent assistance and transfers by prehospital emergency medical services in the province of Cadiz, in the south of Spain, were the subjects of study.

[Sterility in drained serums; before their use in emergency wards and in non-hospital emergency use].

The authors detail the characteristics for the sterility of drained serums placed in a mobile emergency service unit and they determine how much time they can maintain optimum conditions for the use of these serums by means of a controlled, random, triple blind clinical test in which the units studied were serums prepared by an infusion system and a three-way valve. Data were gathered during a 12 month study period. The authors designed six operating groups based on their exposure time and where they were kept.

Physico-chemical stability and sterility of previously prepared saline infusion solutions for use in out-of-hospital emergencies.

Objective: The topic of this research was to determine whether out-of-hospital emergency teams could make use of previously prepared saline solutions (SS). The objective was to discover the physical, chemical and sterility characteristics of previously prepared saline infusions stored in ambulances and ascertain how long they remained in optimum condition.

Method: Randomised clinical trial, triple blind, where study units consisted of saline solutions prepared with an infusion system and a three-way valve.