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National EMS Research Agenda.

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This document is seeking support for elevating the science of EMS and prehospital care to the next level and research is essential to ensure that the best possible patient care is provided in the prehospital setting.
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This article is published in Prehospital Emergency Care.The article was published on 2002-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Emergency medical services.

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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest surveillance --- Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), United States, October 1, 2005--December 31, 2010.

TL;DR: This report summarizes surveillance data collected during October 1, 2005--December 31, 2010, and concludes that whites were significantly more likely to receive CPR than blacks, Hispanics, or members of other racial/ethnic populations and overall survival to hospital discharge of patients whose events were not witnessed by EMS personnel.
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Emergency medical services at the crossroads

TL;DR: The report by the committee on the future of emergency care in the US health system constructively looks at where emergency medical services are in the USA, where they need to be and how to get there.
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Prehospital-Initiated vs Hospital-Initiated Thrombolytic Therapy: The Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Trial

TL;DR: There was no improvement in outcome associated with initiating treatment before hospital arrival; however, treatment within 70 minutes of symptom onset--whether in the hospital or in the field--minimized the infarct process and its complications.
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Mortality and Prehospital Thrombolysis for Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: A meta-analysis suggests that prehospital thrombolysis for AMI significantly decreases the time to throm bolysis and all-cause hospital mortality.
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