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
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Benchmarking online dispatch algorithms for Emergency Medical Services [PDF]
European Journal of Operational Research, 2017 Providers of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face the online ambulance dispatch problem, in which they decide which ambulance to send to an incoming incident. Their objective is to minimize the fraction of arrivals later than a target time.
Berg, P. L.-J. (Pieter) van den +2 more
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Can video communication in the emergency medical communication centre improve dispatch precision? A before–after study in Norwegian helicopter emergency medical services [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives Dispatching helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) to the patients with the greatest medical or logistical benefit remains challenging.
Andreas J Krüger +5 more
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Prehospital time and mortality in patients requiring a highest priority emergency medical response: a Danish registry-based cohort study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective To examine the association between time from emergency medical service vehicle dispatch to hospital arrival and 1-day and 30-day mortality.Design Register-based cohort study.Setting North Denmark Region (≈8000 km2, catchment population ≈600 000)
Kristian Kragholm +8 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Responsive and efficient emergency medical services (EMS) require accurate telephone triage. In Finland, such services are provided by Emergency Response Centre Agency (ERC Agency).
Tomi Salminen +6 more
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Validity of helicopter emergency medical services dispatch criteria for traumatic injuries: A systematic review [PDF]
, 2009 Objective. This review provides an overview of the validity of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch criteria for severely injured patients. Methods. A systematic literature search was performed.
Lieshout, E.M.M. (Esther) van +5 more
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Preventable deaths following emergency medical dispatch--an audit study. [PDF]
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med, 2014 Call taker triage of calls to the 112 emergency number, can be error prone because rapid decisions must be made based on limited information. Here we investigated the preventability and common characteristics of same-day deaths among patients who called 112 and were not assigned an ambulance with lights and sirens by the Emergency Medical Communication
Andersen MS +8 more
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The potential of new prediction models for emergency medical dispatch prioritisation of patients with chest pain: a cohort study. [PDF]
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med, 2022 Wibring K +3 more
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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 ...
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