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PLoS ONEBackgroundAmbulance response times are considered important. Busy ambulances are common, but little is known about their effect on response times.ObjectiveTo assess the extent of busy ambulances in Central Norway and their impact on ambulance response ...
Sara Marie Nilsen +2 more
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Future Healthcare Journal, 2019 To reduce admissions and create beds while providing top quality service. We transformed an already existing, nurse-led day unit and clinic area into an ambulatory unit. We converted the sitting hall into a patient area, by fitting partition curtains and placing two trolleys and three couches, accommodating five patients at one time.
Faisal B, Chaudhry +3 more
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Developing a prehospital care service in a low‐resource setting: Barriers and solutions
Health Science Reports, 2023 Prehospital care (PHC) is critical to the comprehensive and effective functioning of a healthcare system. Given the disproportionate burden of both communicable and non‐communicable diseases in low‐income nations, its significance cannot be understated ...
Berjo D. Takoutsing, Yvan Zolo
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EXAMINATION OF AMBULANCE ARRIVAL TIMES BY GEOINFORMATICS TOOLS – EXAMPLE OF BORSOD-ABAÚJZEMPLÉN COUNTY (HUNGARY) [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2022 An essential part of the health system is the ambulance service, whose main task is to provide patients with high quality care. In the spirit of the above, the aim of the study is to explore the spatial characteristics of the ambulance service in a ...
Dániel ECSEGI, Gábor KOZMA
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Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 Objectives During the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK), to describe volume and pattern of calls to emergency ambulance services, proportion of calls where an ambulance was dispatched, proportion conveyed to hospital, and ...
Helen Snooks +21 more
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Journal of Public Health, 2000 Ambulance services produce a large quantity of data, which can yield valuable summary statistics. For strategic planning purposes, an economic framework is proposed, and the following four resource allocation questions are answered, using data from the Surrey Ambulance Service: (1) To satisfy government response time targets, how many additional ...
A J, Fischer +4 more
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International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2021 Objectives Ambulance officers administering methoxyflurane as an inhalational analgesic may be exposed to trace vapor. Fluoride is a methoxyflurane metabolite, and has been associated with acute renal failure in anesthesia patients and skeletal fluorosis
Serah Joan Allison +3 more
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Innovation in the use of motor ambulance for prehospital emergency care
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2019 BACKGROUND: Prehospital emergency care system is one of the important parts of the health system. Heavy traffic, increasing urban population, and growing demands for prehospital emergency services are challenges faced by this section of the health system.
Mehdi Jafari +3 more
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Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2019 Objective To describe available facilities and equipment in ambulances, to provide essential emergency care, which transport patients to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka Methods A descriptive cross-sectional hospital based study was carried out at the
Gangadevi Nandasena, Chrisantha Abeysena
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