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Paramedic research, 31 May 2026
3 new paramedic and prehospital papers from the 31 May 2026 scan.
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Norwegian trauma criteria: high overtriage
They tested whether Norway's new national trauma criteria accurately predicted ISS>15 injuries and met triage goals, and found overtriage of 81.1% and undertriage of 11.5%, with mechanism of injury criteria showing very poor positive predictive value.
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Road injury data systems highly fragmented
They audited global road injury data systems to assess coverage across the Road Injury Chain of Survival, and found extensive fragmentation with few systems linking crash, rescue, prehospital, and hospital data, severely limiting quality improvement opportunities.
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Prehospital physicians underconfident in paediatrics
They surveyed emergency physicians and analysed 9,409 protocols to understand pediatric emergency preparedness, and found pediatric cases represent only 6.5% of prehospital physician deployments but physicians reported low confidence in neonatal care, intoxication, and pediatric polytrauma.