We retrospectively compared neurologically favourable 1-month survival rates and survival-related factors for 330,849 non-emergency medical service-witnessed OHCAs that occurred in toilets with those that occurred elsewhere using a nationwide database. Keywords: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; byst…

A case study looking at early identification and treatment of Pulmonary Thromboembolism (PTE) in pregnant patients.





Keywords: venous thromboembolism, thrombolysis, pulmonary embolism, pregnancy

A retrospective study of physical trauma cases from 2019 to 2021 and the effect that the Covid-19 lockdowns had on the Emergency Services in South Africa.





Keywords: Emergency Medical System, Physical trauma, COVID-19, EMS, Lockdown, South Africa

This study focused on determining whether there was a difference on in-hospital mortality if EMS patients with sepsis received prehospital antibiotics





Keywords: emergency medical services, antibiotic, sepsis, prehospital

This study looked at survival analysis using different data, including the SOFA score, to assess the severity of injury and prognosis.





Keywords: Inhalation injury, Survival analysis, SOFA score, Severe burn

This study compares scoring systems used to identify patients that need pre-hospital blood transfusions.





Keywords: Transfusion, Pulse pressure, Trauma, Shock index, Pre-hospital

This retrospective study looks at whether prediction models can be established to diagnose massive haemorrhage in trauma earlier than current protocols.





Keywords: LASSO, Trauma, Prediction model, massive hemorrhage, Assisted diagnosis

A high-risk complication of treating hyperkalemia is the development of hypoglycaemia. This study was conducted to determine if hypoglycaemia could be predicted in order to manage the patient most efficiently throughout.





Keywords: Insulin, Hypoglycemia, Hyperkalemia, Prediction

This review describes the type of patient that seeks help from paramedics for back pain, looks at the type of care usually given for back pain (by paramedics) and the safety of back pain care in the ambulance service. Keywords: Health service, Back pain, Ambulances, Emergency medical services

A randomised manikin study was done to evaluate the effect of regurgitation on CPR quality during intubation.





Keywords: Regurgitation, Airway management, Manikin, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation