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Systematic Reviews of Emergency Medical Services
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of emergency medical services.
Reviewed January 2012
6 Resources Found
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| Title: | Immediate closure or delayed closure for treating traumatic wounds in the first 24 hours following injury |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acute traumatic wounds, for example tears, cuts, and scrapes, are a common reason why people go to the emergency department. Primary closure (which is bringing the edges of the wound together with stitches, adhesive tape, staples or glue) is usually use... |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | No evidence to suggest that advanced life support training for ambulance crews cuts death rates or decreases disability in injured people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Injury is one of the top ten causes of death and disability worldwide. It results in an early loss of life for many young people and ongoing high medical care costs. Advanced life support (ALS) training for ambulance crews is believed to have contribute... |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | What are the effects of educational interventions delivered to children and/or their families, who have experienced an emergency department visit with their asthma within the previous 12 months? |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Asthma care for children in our society is common and costly. There is now evidence that educational intervention for children who have attended the emergency department for asthma lowers the risk of the need for future emergency department visits and h... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | More research needed to show whether ATLS training in hospitals can cut death rates and decrease disability in injured people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Training in 'advanced trauma life support' (ATLS) is increasingly used in both rich and poor countries. ATLS is intended to improve the way in which care is given to injured people, thereby reducing death and disability. Some research has been done that... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Corticosteroids for preventing relapse following acute exacerbations of asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In an asthma attack, the airways (passages to the lungs) narrow from muscle spasms and swelling (inflammation). Bronchodilators (reliever inhalers to open up the lungs and airways) can be used for the spasms, and corticosteroids for the swelling. Howeve... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Early emergency department treatment of acute asthma with systemic corticosteroids |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In an asthma attack, the airways (passages to the lungs) narrow from muscle spasms and swelling (inflammation). Bronchodilators (reliever inhalers to open up the lungs and airways) can be used for the spasms, and corticosteroids for the swelling. Cortic... |
| Date: | Sep 2002 |
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