Evaluating a training intervention for improving alignment between emergency medical telephone operators and callers: a pilot study of communication behaviours.

Background: Calls to emergency medical lines are an essential component in the chain of survival. Operators make critical decisions based on information they elicit from callers. Although smooth cooperation is necessary, the field lacks evidence-based guidelines for how to achieve it while adhering to strict parameters of index-driven questioning.

Reduction in Perinatal Mortality after Implementation of HBB Training at a District Hospital in Mali.

Background: Mali has a high neonatal mortality rate of 38/1000 live births; in addition the fresh stillbirth rate (FSR) is 23/1000 births and of these one-third are caused by intrapartum events.

Objectives: The aims are to evaluate the effect of helping babies breathe (HBB) on mortality rate at a district hospital in Kati district, Mali.

Methods: HBB first edition was implemented in April 2016.

Prehospital advanced life support provided by specially trained physicians: is there a benefit in terms of life years gained?

Background: The benefit of prehospital advanced life support (ALS) is disputed, as is the prehospital use of specially trained, hospital-based physicians. The purpose of the study was to assess the health benefit from an anesthesiologist-manned prehospital emergency medical service (EMS), and to separate the benefit of the anesthesiologist from that of rapid transport.

Methods: The anesthesiologist-manned helicopter and rapid response car service at Rogaland Central Hospital assisted 1106 patients at the scene during the 18-month study period.

Acute epiglottitis in a rural area: experiences with an anesthesiologist-staffed ambulance helicopter.

The majority of fatalities due to acute epiglottitis (AE) result from prehospital airway problems. We reviewed the courses of 14 patients with AE treated by an aeromedical team consisting of an anesthesiologist and a paramedic. Eight patients were transported from a physician's office or from the patient's own home.