Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Multicenter Study Observational Study[Out-of-hospital equipment of emergency medical services for hemorrhagic shock management: Can do better!]
Hemorrhagic shock is an emergency, which may benefit from a medicalized prehospital care. Our goal was to survey the means available in the 370 French prehospital medicalized emergency services (SMUR) for hemorrhagic situations. ⋯ There is a great disparity in the means available in the French Smur for the support of prehospitalization bleeding. The majority the Smur physicians can transfuse in a prehospital setting. On the other hand, a minority of teams can actively warm patients, employ tranexamic acid or use pelvic restraint belts.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Observational Study[Epidemiology of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest in « Basse-Normandie » according to RéAC registry.]
Identify from the RéAC registry, out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest in Caen and it's suburbs, to study epidemiology and assess our medical practices. ⋯ RéAC national registry has allowed us to analyze epidemiological data on out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests in our center. This register has also allowed us to highlight areas for improvement. They should be taken into account to improve our medical practices.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Observational Study[Eligibility to a Maastricht III - type organ donation according to the protocol proposed by the French organ procurement organization (Agence de la biomedicine) among patients in a medico surgical intensive care unit.]
Because of graft shortages, an experimental programme of organ donation after Maastricht 3-type circulatory death (M3) has been proposed by the French organ procurement organization (Agence de la biomedicine: ABM). The aim of the study was to estimate how many potential patients were eligible for an M3-type organ donation, amongst deceased patients who have had life-support withdrawn. ⋯ If M3 organ donation is considered, a significant increase in transplantation would be expected.