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Emergency medical services priority dispatch
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1993To test the ability of a locally designed priority dispatch system to safely exclude the need for advanced life support (ALS).Retrospective review of emergency medical services (EMS) incident records to determine how often the lone dispatch of basic life support (BLS) units, staffed with basic emergency medical technicians, subsequently required or ...
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Information flow and situational awareness in emergency medical dispatch
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2016One of the key factors in the daily work in emergency medical dispatch incident monitoring is ensuring that they have enough of the right type of information when making decisions and cooperating with other authorities. Finding out the critical information needed and the flow of information during multi-authority missions when receiving and sharing ...
Teija Norri-Sederholm +3 more
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2002
EMD will always remain somewhat of an imprecise science by nature. 911 is, after all, the access point for lifesaving assistance, and citizens must have absolute freedom to this service. The consequence of having the freedom to request help from any location at any time is that some individuals will use it for the wrong reasons. Present-day dispatchers
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EMD will always remain somewhat of an imprecise science by nature. 911 is, after all, the access point for lifesaving assistance, and citizens must have absolute freedom to this service. The consequence of having the freedom to request help from any location at any time is that some individuals will use it for the wrong reasons. Present-day dispatchers
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Emergency medical dispatching by general practitioners in Brussels
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995The objective of this study was to introduce general practitioners (GPs) to the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system, in order to improve the response to emergency residential calls. The study was based in Brussels, which has 1 million residents. A GP dispatcher (GPD) was placed in the emergency dispatch centre, with a stand-by GP, together
W, Renier, B, Seys
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The development of emergency medical dispatch in the USA
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995Emergency medical dispatch has evolved over the last 25 years from a system designed to limit abuse of the emergency medical services (EMS) to a sophisticated part of the total EMS response. Its current goal is to send the right thing to the right person at the right time in the right way and to do the right thing until help arrives.
B S, Zachariah, P E, Pepe
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A priority dispatch system for emergency medical services
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985A decision tree priority dispatch system for emergency medical services (EMS) was developed and implemented in Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia. The dispatch system shortened the average response time from 14.2 minutes to 10.4 minutes for the 30% of patients deemed most urgent (P less than or equal to .05); resulted in a significant increase in the ...
C M, Slovis +4 more
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Emergency Medical Dispatch Codes Association with Emergency Department Outcomes
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2012Emergency medical dispatch systems are used to help categorize and prioritize emergency medical services (EMS) resources for requests for assistance.We examined whether a subset of Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) codes could predict patient outcomes (emergency department [ED] discharge versus hospital admission/ED death).This retrospective ...
A Zachary, Hettinger +3 more
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Handling of drug-related emergencies: an evaluation of emergency medical dispatch
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009Documenting the quality of emergency dispatch centres handling of emergency calls regarding intoxicated unconscious patients.Interview with eight emergency dispatch centre directors and a nationwide survey among 313 dispatchers in Norway were performed.
Lorem, Tonje +2 more
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Video Emergency Calls in Medical Dispatching: A Scoping Review
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2022AbstractBackground:Video emergency calls (VCs) represent a feasible future trend in medical dispatching. Acceptance among callers and dispatchers seems to be good. Indications, potential problems, limitations, and directions of research of adding a live video from smartphones to an emergency call have not been reviewed outside the context of out-of ...
Roman Sýkora +5 more
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