Resuscitation officer

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BACKGROUND: Trauma patients frequently come into contact with law enforcement officers (LEOs) during the course of their medical care, but little is known about how LEO presence affects processes of care. We surveyed members of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) to assess their perspectives on frequency, circumstances, and implications of LEO presence in trauma bays nationwide. METHODS: Survey items addressed respondents' experience with the frequency and context of LEO presence and their perspectives on the impact of LEO presence for patients, clinical care, and public safety...

Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can improve cardiac arrest survival; however, lack of willingness or community training lead to low bystander CPR rates. Virtual Reality (VR) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training among high-school students is an innovative method to train bystander CPR skills. VR is well received by "technology natives" inherent among high school students and induces a greater sense of presence and agency compared to office-based CPR training. We describe a pilot trial with high school students using a near-peer mentoring framework using a single- player VR CPR training software (CBS, TetraSignum, Seoul, KR) in which both students collaboratively coach each other while performing in-VR CPR...

BACKGROUND: It is well known that police officers (POs) are expected to be the first responders in emergency cases requiring First Aid (FA) such as cardiac arrest. OBJECTIVE: Description of practices and educational needs of Hellenic POs in providing FA/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in case of medical emergencies and description of the equipment of professional FA kit. METHODS: An anonymous cross-sectional survey was conducted from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2017, using a self-administered questionnaire designed to serve the purposes of this particular survey...

BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created new payment rules that provided reimbursement for physicians to engage in advance care planning (ACP) conversations with patients. This reimbursement policy has the potential to increase ACP participation, including among racial and ethnic minority groups that have had lower ACP participation. OBJECTIVES: To examine whether the ACP payment rules were associated with an increase in use of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, particularly among racial and ethnic minority groups, among patients diagnosed with heart failure (HF) in California...

INTRODUCTION: Major gastric surgery for distal esophageal and gastric cancer has a strong impact on the quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. Especially in elderly patients reaching their life expectancy, the responsible use and extent of gastrectomy are imperative to achieve a balance between harm and benefit. In the present study, the reimbursement database (German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) database) of the Statistical Office of the Federal Republic of Germany was queried to evaluate the morbidity and mortality of patients aged above or below 75 years following gastrectomy...

AIM: An online survey was undertaken to analyse the perception of medical school graduates, in postgraduate years 1 and 2, of being ready to work (preparedness) and of managing the demands of practice as a junior doctor on a general surgical attachment. METHODS: An email-based survey was designed to assess medical school graduates' sense of preparedness, and was sent electronically to all house officers at the beginning of their 3-month attachment in general surgery between December 2020 and December 2021...

Venous air embolism (VAE) occurs when air is introduced into the venous system and subsequently travels into the right heart and pulmonary circulation. VAE mainly occurs from air that is forced by positive pressure or drawn in by negative pressure. We present a rare case of fatal VAE that occurred during a routine dental root canal procedure. A 69-year-old male was undergoing a root canal procedure at an outpatient dental office under local anesthesia. During the procedure, he went into cardiopulmonary arrest...

BACKGROUND: Ministries of health in collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) have been scaling up early essential newborn care (EENC). This study was carried out to understand current EENC practices at hospitals in two priority countries: the Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia) and Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). METHODS: EENC is subdivided into 79 checkpoints, referencing the self-monitoring checklist developed by the WPRO...

This research aimed to assess the availability and need of dental emergency kits in Saudi Arabia university hospitals. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 267 dentists, including undergraduate, dental interns, general dentists, and specialists in 6 university hospitals (private and government colleges). In addition, a closed-ended questionnaire was distributed through emails using the online platform. The data revealed that 49.4% of dentists faced medical emergencies. Out of them, 72.7% said that emergency kits were available in their clinics...

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INTRODUCTION: Drowning is a public health problem that is under-reported in Africa. We sought to evaluate the epidemiology and risk factors for drownings in Malawi. METHODS: We performed a retrospective review of all pediatric (≤15 years old) patients who presented following a drowning incident to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, from 2009-19. Demographics and outcomes were compared between survivors and non-survivors. Logistic multivariate regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with increased odds of mortality...

OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic changed the time-dependent cardiac arrest network. This study aims to understand whether the rescue standards of CPR and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) were handled differently during pandemic compared to the previous year. METHODS: Data for the years 2019 and 2020 were provided by the records of the Lombardy office of the Regional Agency for Emergency and Urgency (AREU). We analysed where the cardiac arrest occurred, when CPR started and whether the bystanders used PAD...

OBJECTIVE: This article aimed to study preoperative fasting times in children undergoing elective surgery and to analyze the effect of active interventions conducted to promote compliance with current fasting guidelines. METHODS: An initial audit was performed in which 85 children up to 15 years of age posted for elective surgeries were surveyed. A question- naire was circulated among nurses, resident medical officers, and surgeons to assess their knowledge regarding recent fasting guidelines and its importance...

Chronic pain is the leading cause of morbidity in the world and is strongly associated with physical and psychological disabilities. In this pandemic, most of the pain care centers are forced to shut their doors leaving patients in dismay and adding to their misery. A systematic review was performed following the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement. All research articles from March 2020 to September 15, 2020, available on PubMed, Google scholar, and EmBase were included in this study...

BACKGROUND: A specialized international multidisciplinary group of investigators wanted to determine the performance and impact of publications presented at an annual conference over a 6 year period. Specifically, the group wanted to know if the influence of the conference publications extended beyond conference publication authors and attendees. Bibliometric methods and network analyses were used to evaluate the performance and impact of 100 peer-reviewed publications presented at the Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research (THOR) Network Remote Damage Control Resuscitation (RCDR) Symposia from 2012 to 2017 (published 2013-2018)...

BACKGROUND: Law enforcement officers (LEOs) often are the first responders to arrive at a scene of an opioid overdose. Thus, equipping LEOs as first responders with naloxone is necessary to prevent overdose deaths and a recommended strategy. However, little is known about how LEOs perceive naloxone training and their feelings after using naloxone to save a life. It is important to understand LEOs' experiences with naloxone so as to develop additional training materials that are relevant to the LEO experience...

Gun violence in places of worship (POW) has long been an issue and has been addressed repeatedly in the literature. Contextually, most of the research has been pertinent to relatively large POW, situated in an urban setting. However, rural churches have not been addressed, and they appear to have a far less defensive posture, mainly because of their remote location and the extended time required for first responders to arrive, which in turn requires a higher level of independent operation in terms of defense and medical response...

Background: In 2016, three European scientific societies called for standardization to the "2222" as a European unique phone number in case of in-hospital emergencies. This study describes the management of in-hospital emergency calls in all French military training hospitals and aims to detail their original transition, for the first time in France, to the "2222". Methods: An electronic standardized questionnaire was emailed to heads of rapid response teams in the eight French military training hospitals...

OBJECTIVE: Preparation is vital to improve resuscitation outcomes for children presenting to the primary care office with emergent conditions. Previous literature has provided recommendations for medications, equipment, and skills necessary to provide appropriate care. Most studies thus far demonstrated offices are unprepared according to those recommendations. We sought to provide an intensive emergency training and preparation curriculum to local primary care pediatric offices to improve their emergency readiness...