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Retrieval and transport
No full text[Extract] Retrieval and transport is an essential element of quality patient care. To be most effective there should be seamless transition between care in the prehospital, transport and hospital environments.
The usual operating paradigm in patient transport has been to 'bring the patient to care' and enable access to higher levels of care or definitive management. The concept of 'bringing care to the patient' is increasingly important. Highly trained retrieval teams can optimize patient outcomes by earlier introduction of critical care management.
This mandates the deployment of appropriately trained staff with essential equipment, and liaison between referring, transporting and receiving staff. Clinical management during transport must aim to at least equal care at the referral point and also prepare the patient for admission to the receiving service. The risk of transport should not exceed any potential benefit the patient may obtain from the receiving centre
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Prehospital ultrasound
No full text[Extract] Focused ultrasound is an emerging tool that non-imaging specialists are increasingly using in hospital to assess and monitor patients. The use of ultrasound under these circumstances is directed towards answering a specific clinical question, or improving the safety of a specific clinical procedure. Ultrasound provides real-time imaging of many structures otherwise 'invisible' to the practitioner and is not limited by environmental noise.
The development of lighter, stronger, cheaper and more portable ultrasound devices means that focused ultrasound may now be employed in the prehospital environment (Figure 12.1)
Environmental injuries
No full text[Extract] Prehospital care usually involves exposure to the elements. This introduces the environment as a potential cause of the initial injury or illness, a contributor to secondary effects on a patient with other illness or injury and the risk of environmental injury to personnel providing care. There are multiple types of environmental injury (Table 24.l). Many are discussed in other chapters (e.g. altitude, diving, drowning) while this chapter focuses on cold and heat injury and envenomation. It is worth remembering that people are also part of the environment and often the least predictable and most dangerous element.
Prehospital personnel should have a sound knowledge of environmental injury and its management. They also need to maintain an awareness of environmental risks to ensure the welfare of both the patient and team members and include preventive measures in their pre-planning
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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