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Cardiac Arrest Gets Little Research Funding Despite Huge Death Toll
Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the U.S. but gets just a fraction of the government’s funding for medical research, according to a new study. Researchers aren’t sure exactly why there’s such a disparity in funding from the National Institutes of Health, but say more is definitely needed considering about 450,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest. Most cardiac arrest victims don’t survive. The new analysis of funding from 2007 to 2016 is the first to evaluate the annual trend of NIH cardiac arrest research funding over time, researchers said. The analysis was published Wednesday in the J...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - July 27, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: American Heart Association Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Source Type: news

Fragmented Ambulance Services in Sri Lanka Evolve into A Modern System
Fragmented ambulance services evolve into a modern system Situated in the Indian Ocean, separated from India by the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka is the 25th largest island in the world (See Figure 1). Its complex geographical features-peaks, plateaus, valleys, rivers and tropical forests-are subject to a variety of natural hazards, including floods, landslides, cyclones and tsunamis.1 With ancient cultural roots going back to the 6th century B.C., Sri Lanka's modern colonial history began with Portuguese, Dutch and British settlements in the 16th century. By 1815, Britain was the sole colonial power. In 1948, Sri Lanka became an...
Source: JEMS Operations - November 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nuwan Chamara Ekanayaka, EMT-I Tags: International Operations Source Type: news

Postdischarge Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events of ICU Survivors Who Received Acute Renal Replacement Therapy
Objectives: Long-term risk of a major adverse cardiovascular events in ICU survivors who underwent acute renal replacement therapy requires further investigation. Design: Nationwide population-based study using the claims database of Korea. Setting: Index admission cases of ICU survivors in government-designated tertiary hospitals Patients: The study group consisted of ICU survivors who underwent acute renal replacement therapy, and the control group consisted of those without acute renal replacement therapy. Patients were excluded if they 1) were under age 20, 2) expired within 30 days after discharge, 3) recei...
Source: Critical Care Medicine - October 13, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Flight Medics, Nurses in NM Provide Crucial Rural Lifeline
This article originally appeared on Las Cruces Sun-News: Healers & Builders 2021: Flight medics and nurses provide crucial rural lifeline ___ (c)2020 the Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, N.M.) Visit the Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, N.M.) at www.lcsun-news.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The post Flight Medics, Nurses in NM Provide Crucial Rural Lifeline appeared first on JEMS.
Source: JEMS Patient Care - January 3, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed Flight Medic New Mexico Source Type: news

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes and associated risk factors in a medicare population without prior CVD history: an analysis using statistical and machine learning algorithms
AbstractThere is limited information on predicting incident cardiovascular outcomes among high- to very high-risk populations such as the elderly ( ≥ 65 years) in the absence of prior cardiovascular disease and the presence of non-cardiovascular multi-morbidity. We hypothesized that statistical/machine learning modeling can improve risk prediction, thus helping inform care management strategies. We defined a population from the Medicare he alth plan, a US government-funded program mostly for the elderly and varied levels of non-cardiovascular multi-morbidity. Participants were screened for cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
Source: Internal and Emergency Medicine - June 9, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research