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Should the general practitioner be prepared for the patient with decreased consciousness or coma?

In-flight medical emergency: an experience with Singapore Airlines.

Telemedicine. Mobile video systems link ED with ambulances to jump-start triage.

Potty mouth. A curious toddler prompts a call for poison control information.

Street Smart. Understanding the context of emergency medical services communication and documentation.

Who said what when: Houston adds NICE inform to record, manage and analyze 9-1-1 audio.

Interactive video instruction improves the quality of dispatcher-assisted chest compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation in simulated cardiac arrests.

Video instruction for dispatch-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: two steps forward and one step back!

Handling of drug-related emergencies: an evaluation of emergency medical dispatch.

Pandemic influenza preparedness: bridging public health academia and practice.

Can video mobile phones improve CPR quality when used for dispatcher assistance during simulated cardiac arrest?

Mississippi's infectious disease hotline: a surveillance and education model for future disasters.

Identifying routine surge for poison control telephone response systems.

Emergency preparedness for vulnerable populations: people with special health-care needs.

WHO working on a severity scale to accompany pandemic alert phases.

Development of an emergency department response to acute stroke ("Code Stroke").

Effect of a Medical Priority Dispatch System key question addition in the seizure/convulsion/fitting protocol to improve recognition of ineffective (agonal) breathing.

Recommended guidelines for reporting on emergency medical dispatch when conducting research in emergency medicine: the Utstein style.

Flexibility. Making systems serve people.

The potential for automatic crash notification systems to reduce road fatalities.