Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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To better understand the perceptions, needs, and responses of family members after an out-of-hospital death. ⋯ In this small sample, survivors of out-of-hospital death were generally satisfied with the care their loved ones had received. None of the survivors believed their loved ones should have been transported to the hospital. They also believed the paramedics had been supportive and met their needs at the time of death. It appears that paramedics may be able to meet the needs of a patient's survivors by terminating out-of-hospital resuscitation efforts on the patient.
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Editorial Comment Case Reports
Witnessed collapse and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation: what is really going on?
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Editorial Comment
Quo vadis: "scoop and run," "stay and treat," or "treat and street"?
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
The effects of warming and buffering on pain of infiltration of lidocaine.
To investigate the effects of warming vs buffering, and warming with buffering, on the pain of lidocaine infiltration. ⋯ To reduce the pain of lidocane infiltration, buffering is more effective than warming. Warming does not enhance buffering.