Sentences with phrase «time than emergency»

In a study involving simulated out - of - hospital cardiac arrests, drones carrying an automated external defibrillator arrived in less time than emergency medical services, with a reduction in response time of about 16 minutes, according to a study published by JAMA.

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The hospital says the command center has shaved more than an hour off the time it takes to dispatch an ambulance to another facility and that emergency room patients are assigned a bed 30 % faster than before.

In 2014, the most recent data available from the CDC, Americans visited the emergency room 141 million times, with fewer than 8 % of these trips resulting in a hospital admission.

While it's not exactly pocketable — cargo pants aside, but that's a different kind of emergency — it's usually wise to carry more juice than you think you'll need in times of crisis.

The command center pulls in information from more than a dozen data streams in real time, including patient health records, emergency dispatch service updates, lab results, and tabs on how many hospital beds are available at any given time.

Kenney called for an emergency session of the Legislature, which under the current circumstances would be not much more than four pro-pipeline parties professing their undying devotion and love for the oil pipeline to Burnaby (just in time for Valentine's Day).

Kept $ 100k in a HISA until tax time next year (way more than necessary but its also an emergency fund).

They are unable to seek proactive medical care and by the time they seek care, it's an emergency — and far more costly than seeking proactive care.

We all need to give up giving CC stick for his RB outings — it was emergency cover only and for a 19 lad I thought he actually did better than I had expected, yes he got ripped a new one a few times but that is what FBs are there for — probably the most exposed position on the field after GKs, and errors are easy to spot.

Michelle Wie hopes to bounce back from an emergency appendectomy in time for the season's final major in little more than two weeks.

Where mothers work, more than one father in four takes emergency time of to care for a sick child (Maume, 2008).

This past year, I was part of two significant postpartum hemorrhages, and each time, I did exactly what was necessary and without hesitation can say that we worked quicker and more efficiently than what I have seen in ten years of hospital nursing, but it didn't eliminate the hostile judgment by the emergency response team or the second - guessing by family members.

So rather than having to call in a professional each time a mess is made, it is a much better idea to have your own carpet steam cleaner ready to go for those home cleaning emergencies.

Particularly when you have more than one floor in your home, setting up several changing stations proves quite useful as you don't need to run up and down the stairs to get a diaper every time there is an emergency.

While you should call the doctor if your baby's fever gets alarmingly high, there is no need to rush to the emergency room every time baby feels a little warmer than usual.

Rather than dealing with frantic phone calls from your teen that the sleepover birthday party they're at only has hot dogs and hamburgers available — something I did to my Mom countless times — get in the habit of calling ahead to check food options and always packing emergency foods like string cheese, granola bars, apple slices, or peanut butter sandwiches.

I did a lot of preparation ahead of time, and from previous dramatic injuries I am known as someone with really high pain tolerance... However, I went past - term and needed to be induced, contractions were then constant and more painful than I could have imagined, dilation was fast, my perineum did not have much chance to stretch on its own, labor stalled when pushing should have begun, and I ended up with an epidural, pitocin to re-start contractions, and an emergency episiotomy.

Children are the most vulnerable in emergencies — child mortality can soar from 2 to 70 times higher than average due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.

Waiting times in accident and emergency wards have fallen back slightly but are still higher than any time since 2004.

FDNY ambulances took more than 11 minutes to get to life - threatening medical emergencies last month — almost two minutes longer than the average response time last year — setting off an alarm for city pols.

Citizens Budget Commission In a statement on the day the budget was adopted, CBC President Carol Kellermann said «achieving a fiscally sound budget is more important than an «on time» budget,» referring to the emergency budget extender passed when negotiating parties couldn't reach a deal on time.

Sapphire, also called Slammer, debuted at 9:30 p.m. Pacific time on 24 January and spread to more than 75,000 computers around the globe in a few minutes, knocking out 911 emergency services, automated teller machines, and airline online ticketing systems as well as denying Internet access to millions.

This means that even though they are travelling much closer than is normally advised — or even legal in some countries — their reaction time disappears in an emergency braking scenario, with all vehicles breaking in unison, avoiding a collision.

Patients with persistent VPC also had lower lung function, and were more than three times as likely to require hospitalization / emergency department visits for exacerbations that required corticosteroids in the previous 12 months.

They found that those with disruption in coverage were more than 3 times more likely to have visited an emergency department and nearly 5 times more likely to have an unmet health care need.

Administering heart resuscitation drugs to patients whose cardiac arrest is witnessed at the time of the attack can improve survival, but needs to be done through an IV line rather than directly into bone marrow as is more commonly done by paramedics, a new study involving UT Southwestern Medical Center emergency physicians and Dallas - Fort Worth Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agenciesemergency physicians and Dallas - Fort Worth Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agenciesEmergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies reveals.

Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in an hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?

They are five times more likely to visit healthcare providers and twice as likely to be seen in emergency rooms than the general population.

And since I didn't want to leave the blog so long without an outfit post, I checked my emergency stash and liked this look definitely more than I did at the time.

We are living in such uncertain and challenging times that young people need to have this inner strength, this inner reservoir they can depend on and go to when difficulties arise, so that they are able to manage their stress, rather than seeing all things as a state of emergency where the fight - or - flight response goes off.

Combined with the $ 271 million already in the emergency reserve, that surplus leaves the Democratic governor with a fiscal cushion of less than 2 percent against a post-election deficit more than four times its size as he enters his re-election campaign.

Previously released city records show New York public schools called emergency medical services more than 3,600 times in one recent year to handle disruptive children.

It's perhaps not the most subtle getaway car but should you need an emergency start it possesses a 0 - 60 time of 4.6 sec (0.2 sec slower than the saloon) and its top speed is limited to 186mph.

If its there, you might as well use it, however its doesn't seem RADICALLY better than using a LOC for emergencies, and just selling enough of your long term investments to pay for the vehicle (when the time comes).

Having lower than average credit doesn't stop the average American from needing cash from time to time, such as for emergency short - term needs like having a car repaired, hospital bills, or other unforeseen needs.

That being the case, a $ 3000 emergency fund could end up being significantly less than $ 3000 if you consider possible losses due to market fluctuations or being forced to sell at an unfavorable time, potential fees and penalties associated with early withdrawal of the money, taxes, and trading fees.

Now I have another fund which is in P2P funds which is higher risk than a deposit account but then gives me a better return and is less subject to market fluctuations and it would be the place I go to for loss of job level emergencies say 6 months of salary, this takes a bit longer to access but given I have the above emergency fund I have given myself time to get the money from the P2P account.

If you have more money than you need for your emergency fund in your savings account, consider moving some of it to a higher - yielding account like a Dime Money Market Account.You'll still have access to your money, but it's going to earn more over time.

Qualified members can withdraw more than the account balance, up to a pre-approved limit, for a short period of time to cover unexpected emergencies.

If your life is in a state where you are spending less than you earn each month and you have a nice little emergency fund built up, it's time to start tackling your debts.

Perhaps your student loans didn't come through on time or a medical emergency caused you to lose income at a time when you had to use credit more than usual.

The majority of people (58.5 percent) believe having enough savings to cover emergencies would make them happier than buying something that they've been eagerly waiting to get for a long time, according to the survey.

While the size of our e-fund ebbs and flows based on our earnings and the time of the year, we frequently have more than six months of cash expenses to use in emergencies.

«Financial emergencies, such as a broken furnace or major car repairs, can crop up at any time and, without some form of financial cushion, can potentially cause households to take on more debt than is necessary,» said BMO's Janet Peddigrew.

Happily, there's no better way to overcome these barriers than with a good, old - fashioned emergency fund — or what some women would be right to call an FU - fund, especially if they don't otherwise have the resources to act as a cushion while getting out of a messy divorce, or while taking some extra time with their kids as a single parent.

Insurers and their gorilla math have decided that that just because your business failed a few years back resulting in a bankruptcy; or you recently had an unpreventable emergency medical procedure blessing you with medical collections; or even if your spouse just forgot to send in the mortgage payment on time before they slapped you with a 30 day late, that you have a much higher chance of running over little old ladies on the road than others.

Although there are certainly times when you need just a few hundred bucks to make it through an emergency, many of the things for which we need financing tend to come with more than three digits on the price tag.

The space allocated for the ICU and the Small Animal Emergency Service in the Terry Center is four times greater than in the original Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

However, there may be some situations which necessitate the referral of our clients and their pets to an emergency facility due to scheduling, staffing, or other unforeseen circumstances.It is our sincere desire to put the health and welfare of our patients first, and if for some reason we are unable to take an emergency, we will not hesitate to refer you to a nearby emergency facility so that your pet may receive the best possible care at that time rather than sacrifice the quality of that care so that we may charge for less than optimum services.

Odds are, your dog or cat will need some kind of emergency or specialty care, which typically costs two to three times more than standard veterinary services.