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2024 Peer reviewed research publications

Published online in 2024

  1. 2024 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations: Summary From the Basic Life Support; Advanced Life Support; Pediatric Life Support; Neonatal Life Support; Education, Implementation, and Teams; and First Aid Task Forces - PubMed
  2. A Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Report From the National Summit for Cardiac Arrest - PubMed
  3. A Comparative Evaluation of Selection Processes for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Paramedics in Australasia - PubMed
  4. A comparison of historical versus proposed physical employment standards for flight paramedics performing helicopter winch rescue - PubMed
  5. Adaptive sleep behaviours and shift work tolerance during the transition to shift work - PubMed
  6. Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: Analysis of Acute Harms Assessed via Ambulance Data - PubMed
  7. Applications and Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Emergency Medical Services: A Scoping Review - PubMed
  8. Artificial neural networks for ECG interpretation in acute coronary syndrome: A scoping review - PubMed
  9. Association between temperature and air pollutants with atrial fibrillation presentations to emergency departments - PubMed
  10. Association of socioeconomic status in the incidence, quality-of-care metrics, and outcomes for patients with cardiogenic shock in a pre-hospital setting - PubMed
  11. At an intersection of public health crises: Drugs, a pandemic, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - PubMed
  12. Australian Paramedics’ Experiences of Stressors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  13. Bag-valve-mask resuscitators fitted with pressure-limiting valves-Safety feature or potential hazard? - PubMed
  14. Blood lactate after pre-hospital blood transfusion for major trauma by helicopter emergency medical services - PubMed
  15. Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcome Reports: 2024 Update of the Utstein Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry Template - PubMed
  16. Cardiac arrest centres for patients with non-traumatic cardiac arrest: A systematic review - PubMed
  17. Change from semi-rigid to soft collars for prehospital management of trauma patients: An observational study - PubMed
  18. Changes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation quality during and after the COVID-19 pandemic - PubMed
  19. Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Referred to a General Practitioner by Victorian Paramedics - PubMed
  20. Cost-Effectiveness of an Individualised Management Program after Stroke: A Trial-Based Economic Evaluation - PubMed
  21. Cricothyroidotomy in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An observational study - PubMed
  22. Current Emergency Medical Service Vasoactive Use for the Management of Shock - PubMed
  23. Defibrillation trials: POSED a challenge - PMC
  24. Development of an international prehospital CPR-induced consciousness guideline: A Delphi study
  25. Differences in ambulance attendances between children with and without an identified history of out-of-home-care - PubMed
  26. Diverging trends in alcohol-related harms: The role of comorbid mental health, suicide and self-harm behaviors in ambulance attendances for alcohol intoxication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia - PubMed
  27. Diversity of ICD-10 coding for sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is likely to create a spurious rise in cases under new ICD-11 nomenclature - PubMed
  28. Early Acute Kidney Injury in Adult Patients With Burns in Australia & New Zealand - PubMed
  29. Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Emergency Medical Service Utilisation, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Volume-An Australian Perspective - PubMed
  30. Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Telemedicine Physician Assessments on a Mobile Stroke Unit: Protocol for a Prospective Open-Label Blinded End-Point Randomized Controlled Trial - PubMed
  31. Exploring the reliability and profile of frequent mental health presentations using different methods: An observational study using statewide ambulance data over a 4-year period - PubMed
  32. Factors influencing the successful implementation of a novel digital health application to streamline multidisciplinary communication across multiple organisations for emergency care - PubMed
  33. Gamified learning for resuscitation education: A systematic review - PubMed
  34. Healthcare and economic cost burden of emergency medical services treated non-traumatic shock using a population-based cohort in Victoria, Australia - PubMed
  35. Hyper-Acute Stroke Systems of Care and Workflow - PubMed
  36. Identifying areas of Australia with high out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and low bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates: A retrospective, observational study - PubMed
  37. Impact of socioeconomic status on presentation, care quality and outcomes of patients attended by emergency medical services for dyspnoea: a population-based cohort study - PubMed
  38. In reply - PubMed
  39. Long-term effects of a coalmine fire on hospital and ambulance use: An interrupted time series study - PubMed
  40. Maintenance of normothermia in the out-of-hospital setting: A pilot comparative crossover study of a foil blanket versus self-warming blanket - PubMed
  41. Outcomes of adult patients discharged at scene by emergency medical services - PubMed
  42. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003-2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data - PubMed
  43. Out-of-hospital paramedic interactions with people living with dementia: a scoping review - PubMed
  44. Paramedic clinical practice guideline development in Australia and New Zealand: A qualitative descriptive analysis - PubMed
  45. Paramedic perceptions of conveying patients to an emergency department who were suitable for primary care: a cross-sectional survey - PubMed
  46. Performance of the Medical Priority Dispatch System® in Identifying Patients Requiring Chest Compressions at Overdose Prevention Services: A Retrospective Cohort Study - PubMed
  47. Population trends in the incidence and outcomes of atrial fibrillation presentations to emergency departments in Victoria, Australia - PubMed
  48. Prehospital Blood Transfusion in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: An Italian Survey - PubMed
  49. Prehospital factors predicting mortality in patients with shock: state-wide linkage study - PubMed
  50. Prevalence and Predictors of Emergency Medical Service Use in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction - PubMed
  51. Prevalence of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale in a cohort of sudden cardiac death patients undergoing autopsy - PubMed
  52. Real-time feedback for CPR quality - A scoping review - PubMed
  53. Refining ambulance clinical response models: The impact on ambulance response and emergency department presentations - PubMed
  54. Response to: Regard to assessing agreement between two raters with kappa statistics - PubMed
  55. Review article: Pre-hospital trauma guidelines and access to lifesaving interventions in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand - PubMed
  56. Sex differences in the intention and decision to use emergency medical services for acute coronary syndrome in Australia: a retrospective study - PubMed
  57. Sex Disparities in Resuscitation Quality Following Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest - PubMed
  58. Symptomology, Outcomes and Risk Factors of Acute Coronary Syndrome Presentations without Cardiac Chest Pain: A Scoping Review - PubMed
  59. Temporal trends in the incidence and outcomes of shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - PubMed
  60. The aortic paradox: a nationwide analysis of 523 994 individual echocardiograms exploring fatal aortic dissection - PubMed
  61. The authors reply - PubMed
  62. The burden of atrial fibrillation on emergency medical services: A population-based cohort study - PubMed
  63. The challenge of risk stratification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Clinical, genetic and imaging insights from a quaternary referral centre - PubMed
  64. The diagnostic utility of prehospital hyperglycaemia in major trauma patients: An observational study - PubMed
  65. The importance of outcome measures that matter in paramedicine research
  66. To what extent has a systems thinking approach been applied to understand motor vehicle crashes involving ambulances? A systematic review of risk factors and characteristics
  67. Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials - PubMed
  68. Tranexamic acid versus placebo in individuals with intracerebral haemorrhage treated within 2 h of symptom onset (STOP-MSU): an international, double-blind, randomised, phase 2 trial - PubMed
  69. Using ambulance surveillance data to characterise blood-borne viral infection histories among patients presenting with acute alcohol and other drug-related harms - PubMed
  70. Utilization of Emergency Medical Services by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patients: A Population-Based Retrospective Study - PubMed

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