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The inaugural European emergency medical dispatch conference--a synopsis of proceedings. [PDF]

Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med, 2013
The inaugural European Emergency Medical Dispatch conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2013. We provide a synopsis of the conference proceedings, highlight key topic areas of emergency medical dispatch and suggest future research ...
Lyon RM, Bohm K, Christensen EF, Olasveengen TM, Castrén M.   +4 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Emergency medical dispatch recognition, clinical intervention and outcome of patients in traumatic cardiac arrest from major trauma: an observational study. [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2018
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to describe the demographics of reported traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA ...
Prentice C, Jeyanathan J, De Coverly R, Williams J, Lyon R.   +4 more
europepmc   +8 more sources

Nine golden codes: improving the accuracy of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch—a retrospective, multi-organisational study in the East of England [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are a limited and expensive resource, and should be intelligently tasked. HEMS dispatch was identified as a key research priority in 2011, with a call to identify a ‘general set of criteria with the
Christopher T. Edmunds, Kate Lachowycz, Sarah McLachlan, Andrew Downes, Andrew Smith, Rob Major, Edward B. G. Barnard   +6 more
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A novel method of non-clinical dispatch is associated with a higher rate of critical Helicopter Emergency Medical Service intervention [PDF]

, 2018
Background - Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are a scarce resource that can provide advanced emergency medical care to unwell or injured patients. Accurate tasking of HEMS is required to incidents where advanced pre-hospital clinical care is
Scott Munro, Mark Joy, Richard de Coverly, Mark Salmon, Julia Williams, Richard Lyon   +5 more
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Paediatric medical emergency calls to a Danish Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre: a retrospective, observational study [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018
Background Little is known regarding paediatric medical emergency calls to Danish Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres (EMDC). This study aimed to investigate these calls, specifically the medical issues leading to them and the pre-hospital units ...
Kasper Andersen, Søren Mikkelsen, Gitte Jørgensen, Stine Thorhauge Zwisler   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Description of call handling in emergency medical dispatch centres in Scandinavia: recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and dispatcher-assisted CPR [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background The European resuscitation council have highlighted emergency medical dispatch centres as an important key player for early recognition of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and in providing dispatcher assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Camilla Hardeland, Andreas Claesson, Marieke T. Blom, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Fredrik Folke, Jacob Hollenberg, Jo Kramer-Johansen, Freddy Lippert, Anette Nord, Anne Mette Nygaard, Theresa Mariero Olasveengen, Mattias Ringh, Leif Svensson, Thea Palsgaard Møller   +13 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Dispatch Decisions and Emergency Medical Services Response in the Prehospital Care of Status Epilepticus [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Objective: Emergency medical dispatch is intended to ensure that emergency medical services (EMS) allocate appropriate resources for the treatment of patients with status epilepticus (SE).
Robert P. McInnis, Andrew J. Wood, Courtney L. Shay, Anna A. Haggart, Remle P. Crowe, Elan L. Guterman   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation.
Caroline Watkins, Stephanie P. Jones, Michael J Leathley, Gary A. Ford, Tom Quinn, Joanna J McAdam, Josephine Gibson, Kevin Mackway‐Jones, Stuart Durham, David Britt, Sara Morris, Mark O’Donnell, Hedley Emsley, Shuja Punekar, Anil Sharma, Chris Sutton   +15 more
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A comparison of two emergency medical dispatch protocols with respect to accuracy [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017
Background Emergency medical dispatching should be as accurate as possible in order to ensure patient safety and optimize the use of ambulance resources.
Klara Torlén, Lisa Kurland, Maaret Castrén, Knut Olanders, Katarina Bohm   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Implementing a nationwide criteria-based emergency medical dispatch system: a register-based follow-up study [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: A criteria-based nationwide Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) system was recently implemented in Denmark. We described the system and studied its ability to triage patients according to the severity of their condition by analysing hospital ...
Mikkel Strømgaard Andersen, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Jan Sørensen, Søren Jepsen, Jesper Bjerring Hansen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen   +5 more
openalex   +4 more sources