| Evidence-basedthermoregulation for adult trauma patients(17)
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To develop a protocol for implementing the evaluating care with thermoregulation, based on evidence, for adult patients with trauma during the treatment in the emergency department. |
Cohort
- |
2012/V |
| Development of a geriatric resuscitation protocol, utilization compliance, and outcomes(18)
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To develop a protocol for geriatric resuscitation based on lactate measures, to consult geriatric trauma surgeons to assess the compliance to the protocol and analyze the outcomes before and after implementing the protocol |
Cohort
Pre-implementation
n=1157
Post-implementation
n=585 |
2012/IV |
| High-risk geriatric protocol: improving mortality in the elderly(19)
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To asses the efficiency of a protocol for high-risk geriatric patients used during the last five years |
Transversal
n=4.534 |
2012/IV |
| Assessing guidelines for the discontinuation of prehospital peripheral intravenous catheters(20)
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To identify the period in which peripheral intravenous catheters (PVC) punctured during Prehospital Care (PHC) of trauma patients were removed and to determine the complication rate at the moment of discontinuing the PVC. |
Transversal
n=365 |
2012/IV |
| A comparison between the effects of simple and traction splints on pain intensity in patients with femur fractures(21)
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To determine and compare the effects of using traction and simple splints over pain intensity immediately after, and one, six, and twelve hours after, for patients with femur fractures care for in medical centers of an Iranian university. |
Quasi-experimental
n=32 |
2012/IV |
| Association between a Geriatric Trauma Resuscitation Protocol using venous lactate measurements and early trauma surgeon involvement and mortality risk(22)
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To investigate if the implementation of a geriatric resuscitation protocol using lactate-guided therapy with the involvement of trauma surgeons is connected to lower mortality during the precocious recognition of occult hypoperfusion. |
Prospective Cohortn=1.998 |
2013/IV |
| The quality of pre-hospital oxygen therapy in patients with multiple trauma: a cross-sectional study(23)
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To investigate the quality of prehospital oxygen therapy for multiple trauma patients. |
Transversal
n=350 |
2014/IV |
| Efficacy of prehospital spine and limb immobilization in multiple trauma patients(24)
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To investigate the epidemiology of trauma and the quality of cervical spine and limb immobilization in multiple trauma patients in Iran |
Transversaln=400 |
2014/IV |
| Utilization of prehospital intravenous access(25)
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To describe the use of intravenous therapy (IV) in the South-African prehospital scenario and to determine the proportion of intravenous access considered unnecessary when classified into the South-African triage classification chart. |
Transversal
n=242 |
2014/IV |
| Cervical Spine Fractures in elderly patients with hip fracture after low-level fall: an opportunity to refine prehospital spinal immobilization guidelines?(26)
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To explore the prevalence of cervical spine fracture in elderly population with fracture of long bones due to low-level falls, in the state of Minnesota, United States |
Transversal
n=1.394 |
2014/IV |
| The implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based statewide prehospital pain management protocol developed using the National Prehospital Evidence-based Guideline Model Process for Emergency Medical Services(27)
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To access the impact of adopting a handling protocol in PHC, Maryland Institute for Medical Emergency, United States. |
Transversal
n=19.910 |
2017/IV |
| Initial emergency nursing management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury: development of an evidence-based care bundle for the Thai emergency department context(28)
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To describe the development of an evidence-based care bundle for initial nursing evaluation of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for a Thai emergency context |
Transversal
- |
2014/ IV |
| Infrequent assessment of pain in elderly trauma patients(29)
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The study's main objective was to identify and describe patterns for pain evaluation for a geriatric trauma population (≥ 65 years). Specific objectives: to describe the frequency of pain evaluation and to determine if the evaluations are being performed in the intervals demanded by hospital protocols. To describe pain evaluation methods to verify if self-reporting and behavioral tools were fit. |
Transversal n=587 |
2014/IV |
| Systolic blood pressure criteria in the National Trauma Triage Protocol for geriatric trauma: 110 is the new 90(30)
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To assess the impact on mortality by substituting for systolic blood pressure SBP < 110 mmHg in the triage of adult and elderly patients of The National Trauma Triage Protocol. |
Retrospective cohort
n=1.555.944 |
2015/IV |
| Using an evidence-based care bundle to improve initial emergency nursing management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury(31)
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General objective: to test the feasibility of an evidence-based care bundle in a Thai emergency service.Specific objective: to examine the impact of implementing the care bundle on initial nursing care for patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). |
Cohort
Pre-test n=20
Post-test n=25 |
2015/II |
| Activation of massive transfusion for elderly trauma patients(32)
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To revise the use of massive transfusion protocol (MTP) for elderly patients. To compare results after activating MTP in elderly trauma patients for their younger counterparts to determine whether older age predicts higher mortality after activating the MTP. |
Transversal
n=66 |
2015/IV |
| Intravenous access in the prehospital settings: what can be learned from point-of-injury experience(33)
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To analyze prehospital data on peripheral venous access and to validate the clinical practice guidelines by the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps. |
Cohort
n=1082 |
2015/IV |
| Pain management in trauma patients in (pre)hospital based emergency care: current practice versus new guideline(34)
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To evaluate id the current pain handling practice is in compliance to the Pain managements for trauma patients in the chain of emergency care of the Association for Emergency Nurses, in Dutch, Netherlands. And to assess the precocious pain treatment for traumatized adults in emergency care. |
Transversal n=1.066 |
2015/IV |
| Identification of a neurologic scale that optimizes EMS detection of older adult traumatic brain injury patients who require transport to a trauma center(35)
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To identify a scale or its components that may enhance the detection of elderly patients with EMS, who need to be transported to a trauma center, regardless of the trauma mechanism. |
Transversal n=15 |
2015/V |
| Patients immobilized with a long spine board rarely have unstable thoracolumbar injuries(36)
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To determine the prevalence of unstable thoracolumbar injuries among patients who underwent spine immobilization during PHC. |
Transversal
n=5.593 |
2016/IV |
| The quality of pre-hospital circulatory management in patients with multiple trauma referred to the trauma center of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kashan, Iran, in the First Six Months of 2013(37)
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To investigate the quality of treatment for circulation priority in PHC of multiple trauma patients. |
Transversal
n=400 |
2015/IV |
| The use of broad geriatric evaluation by nurses from an emergency hospital(38)
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To identify whether the Broad Geriatric Evaluation (BGE) is used as a tool by nurses in geriatric triage. |
Transversal
n=15 |
2016/IV |
| Delta Alerts: changing outcomes in geriatric trauma(39)
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To stablish a third level trauma alert for geriatric trauma. |
Transversal
- |
2016/VI |
| Prehospital fluid administration in trauma patients: a survey of state protocols(40)
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To characterize emergency medical services protocols for intravenous fluid administration during the initial treatment of hypotensive trauma patients. |
Transversal
n=27 |
2017/IV |
| Initial testing of a behavioral pain assessment tool within trauma units(41)
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To assess the results of initial test of the Bolton Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT). |
Transversal n=46 |
2017/IV |
| Do EMS providers accurately ascertain anticoagulant and antiplatelet use in older adults with head trauma?(42)
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To identify if health professionals have evaluated the use of anticoagulant and antiplatelet for severe brain injury elderly patients. |
Transversal n=2.110 |
2016/IV |
Atención prehospitalaria móvil avanzada de enfermería a ancianos postrauma: una revisión integrativa