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Triage By Emergency Medical Dispatchers

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1992
AbstractPurpose: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, 2022
AbstractBackground: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, David Peřan, Metoděj Renza, Jan Bradna, Jiří Smetana, František Duška   +5 more
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The Norwegian Medical Dispatch System and the Norwegian Index for Emergency Medical Dispatch

Notfall + Rettungsmedizin, 2012
The 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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How to evaluate an emergency medical dispatch system

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995
In 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.
P, Calle, H, Houbrechts, L, Lagaert, W, Buylaert   +3 more
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Accuracy of determining cardiac arrest by emergency medical dispatchers

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994
To 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, L, Culley, M, Eisenberg, D K, Henwood   +3 more
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The role of protocols and professional judgement emergency medical dispatching

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995
The task of evaluating incoming calls to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems in order to determine the most appropriate response is performed in many different ways in current EMS systems. At one end of the spectrum, the process is entirely dependent on the judgement of professionals, while at the other end protocols specify the exact questions to
L, Farand, J, Leprohon, M, Kalina, F, Champagne, A P, Contandriopoulos, A, Preker   +5 more
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Work-related stress in an emergency medical dispatch center

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2003
Stress 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 ...
Laurence, Weibel, Isabelle, Gabrion, Michel, Aussedat, Gerard, Kreutz   +3 more
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Evaluation of the Computer-Based Dispatching System for Emergency Medical Dispatch

2000
The work makes an evaluation of the benefits brought by the system to the Ambulance Service of the City of Bucharest (ASCB) as well as to those who are using it, and of the conditions that permitted the bringing into operation of the system and made possible work with this system 7 days per week, 24 hours out of 24 for over 4 years.
Rîpanu Aneta, Oprisan Mircea
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Evaluation of the computer-based dispatching system for emergency medical dispatch.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2001
The work makes an evaluation of the benefits brought by the system to the Ambulance Service of the City of Bucharest (ASCB) as well as to those who are using it, and of the conditions that permitted the bringing into operation of the system and made possible work with this system 7 days per week, 24 hours out of 24 for over 4 years.
A, Rîpanu, M, Oprisan
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Practice for Emergency Medical Dispatch

2008
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