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Paramedic research, 12 October 2026

2 new paramedic and prehospital papers from the 12 October 2026 scan.

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• Bedside observations beat NEWS for spotting deterioration

  Resuscitation Plus · Cohort · Hypothesis-generating

  Retrospective analysis of 4,581 rapid response team callouts testing whether eight equipment-free bedside observations identify dying patients better than NEWS — a model built from them outperformed NEWS for predicting death within 24 hours (AUC 0.790 vs 0.707).

• Stable penetrating chest trauma: surgery increasingly avoided

  BMC Emergency Medicine · Cohort · Context only

  Ten-year retrospective review of 268 haemodynamically stable penetrating chest injuries in Marseille, where non-operative management was attempted in 78% and failed in fewer than 9%, with hospital stay falling from 7.6 to 5.2 days in the recent period.