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Emergency Medical Dispatch Codes Association with Emergency Department Outcomes

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2012
Emergency 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, Jeremy T, Cushman, Manish N, Shah, Katia, Noyes   +3 more
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Availability and Use of an Automated External Defibrillator at Emergency Medical Dispatch

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2019
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of automatic external defibrillator (AED) retrieval and placement by bystander callers when prompted by an Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD).
I. Gardett, Meghan Broadbent, G. Scott, J. Clawson, C. Olola   +4 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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Adverse drug reactions in an emergency medical dispatching centre

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2014
The 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 ...
E, Dehours, V, Bounes, H, Bagheri, B, Vallé, J L, Ducassé, J L, Montastruc   +5 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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Unrecognized cardiac arrests: A one-year review of audio from emergency medical dispatch calls.

American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
D. Crabb, Yasmeen O. Elmelige, Zoe Gibson, Daniel C. Ralston, Caleb Harrell, Scott A. Cohen, D. Fitzpatrick, T. Becker   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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