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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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Triage By Emergency Medical Dispatchers
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1992AbstractPurpose:This study is an evaluation of the ability of medically trained and controlled emergency medical dispatchers to use telephone triage techniques to direct the appropriate prehospital unit to an emergency scene.Methods:Emergency dispatchers, educated in a formal emergency medical dispatch program, were assigned one of four triage ...
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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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The Norwegian Medical Dispatch System and the Norwegian Index for Emergency Medical Dispatch
Notfall + Rettungsmedizin, 2012The Norwegian Medical Dispatch System is a national medical, organizational, and technical system handling all medical emergency calls whether routed directly into one of 19 large hospital-based dispatch centres or received initially by one of the many smaller community-based medical centres.
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Joint location and dispatching decisions for Emergency Medical Services
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2013The main purpose of Emergency Medical Service systems is to save lives by providing quick response to emergencies. The performance of these systems is affected by the location of the ambulances and their allocation to the customers. Previous literature has suggested that simultaneously making location and dispatching decisions could potentially improve
Hector Toro-Díaz +3 more
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Adverse drug reactions in an emergency medical dispatching centre
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2014The purpose of this study is to assess the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADR) leading to call an emergency medical dispatching centre.A prospective, observational, monocentric clinical study performed over a 2-year period (2011-2012) in a French prehospital emergency dispatching centre, the Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente (SAMU) covering 1,156 ...
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Accuracy of determining cardiac arrest by emergency medical dispatchers
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994To identify and determine the rates of delivery and performance of telephone CPR in noncardiac arrest incidents.We studied prospectively all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and potential cardiac arrest incidents from July 1 through October 31, 1992.King County, Washington, excluding the city of Seattle.Persons with cardiac arrest or an initial complaint
J J, Clark +3 more
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How to evaluate an emergency medical dispatch system
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995In order to evaluate the local emergency medical dispatch centre, 4601 calls were analysed. Information was obtained from the tape recordings of the dispatch centre and standardized reports from the basic life support (BLS) teams, advanced life support (ALS) teams and the emergency departments of all receiving hospitals in the study area.
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Work-related stress in an emergency medical dispatch center
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2003Stress is an emergent occupational problem in modern societies. Among workers, medical practitioners are particularly exposed. However, data objectifying stress levels during work time are scarce. The aim of this study was to establish diurnal salivary cortisol levels in a highly stressful work environment, the medical dispatch center of an emergency ...
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