Search Tag: paramedics

ICU Management

Tablets-enable-pre-hospital-neurologist-assessment-of-stroke-patients-in-transit

2016 28 Jul

A clinical trial that tested mobile videoconferencing via tablet computer to enable doctors to assess stroke patients en route to hospital found that the system produced diagnoses that correlate highly to bedside assessment. The study results have been published by the scientific journal Neurology . The Improving Treatment with Rapid Evaluation of...Read more

ICU Management

Reduced-infection-when-antibiotics-are-given-after-trauma

2015 26 Feb

A new study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT) shows that infection rates can be significantly reduced by giving patients antibiotics within the first hour of injury. The study included 137 trauma patients who had open fractures of the tibia (shinbone). In an open fracture, bone sticks out through the skin or a wound penetrates down...Read more