Teletriage for patients with traumatic finger injury directing emergency medical transportation services to appropriate hospitals: A pilot project in Nagoya City, Japan

Injury ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1349-1353
Author(s):  
T. Hara ◽  
T. Nishizuka ◽  
M. Yamamoto ◽  
K. Iwatsuki ◽  
T. Natsume ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Madalina-Cristina Gogu

AbstractThe purpose of the emergency medical transportation services is to save human life, irrespective of political, economical, social or military situation in which the people, seeking help, find themselves in. The direction towards which the populations health is heading, is unsure due to the lack of drinkable water, quality food, access to medical care, pollution, stress, new viruses, economic, social, political and military problems, terrorism, fires, floods, earthquakes and other events and processes with a high risk for human health. The objective of the paper presents the challenges that citizens and the emergency medical transportation service will face, in terms of a turbulent future; and the necessity of applying the principles of adaptive management and the analysis of the possibility of applying those principles in emergency medicine using analytical, theoretical and comparative methods. The result shows that the emergency medical transportation services will cope with the uncertainties and the challenges of a turbulent future.


1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Muriel Sue Braunstein
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2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sena Crutchley

This article describes how a telepractice pilot project was used as a vehicle to train first-year graduate clinicians in speech-language pathology. To date, six graduate clinicians have been trained in the delivery of telepractice at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Components of telepractice training are described and the benefits and limitations of telepractice as part of clinical practicum are discussed. In addition, aspects of training support personnel involved in telepractice are outlined.


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