3 results match your criteria: "Center for Injury Science University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham[Affiliation]"
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg
October 2020
Center for Injury Science University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama
Using publicly available flight data to analyze health disparities in aeromedical retrieval.
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
August 2020
Center for Injury Science University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama USA.
Objectives: Specialist healthcare cannot be provided in all locations. Helicopters can help to reduce the inherent geographical inequity caused by long distances or difficult terrain. However, the selective use of aeromedical retrieval could lead to other forms of health disparities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical characteristics and course of out-of-hospital shock in a national emergency medical services cohort.
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open
August 2020
Article Synopsis
- A national study analyzed data from over 6 million EMS responses, identifying that shock was present in 62,867 cases (about 1.02%).
- The majority of these cases were medical shock (86.3%), with trauma shock primarily resulting from falls and motor vehicle crashes.
- The study found that systolic blood pressure improved significantly for both medical and traumatic shock patients, with a quicker and greater increase in blood pressure noted in trauma cases.