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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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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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Emergency medical dispatching by general practitioners in Brussels

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995
The objective of this study was to introduce general practitioners (GPs) to the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system, in order to improve the response to emergency residential calls. The study was based in Brussels, which has 1 million residents. A GP dispatcher (GPD) was placed in the emergency dispatch centre, with a stand-by GP, together
W, Renier, B, Seys
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A priority dispatch system for emergency medical services

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985
A decision tree priority dispatch system for emergency medical services (EMS) was developed and implemented in Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia. The dispatch system shortened the average response time from 14.2 minutes to 10.4 minutes for the 30% of patients deemed most urgent (P less than or equal to .05); resulted in a significant increase in the ...
C M, Slovis, T B, Carruth, W J, Seitz, C M, Thomas, W R, Elsea   +4 more
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Handling of drug-related emergencies: an evaluation of emergency medical dispatch

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009
Documenting 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, Saether, Elisabeth, Wik, Lars   +2 more
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Criteria for cancelling helicopter emergency medical Services (HEMS) dispatches

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2011
In The Netherlands there is no consensus about criteria for cancelling helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) dispatches. This study assessed the ability of the primary HEMS dispatch criteria to identify major trauma patients. The predictive power of other early prehospital parameters was evaluated to design a safe triage model for HEMS dispatch ...
Giannakopoulos, Georgios F., Bloemers, Frank W., Lubbers, Wouter D., Christiaans, Herman M. T., van Exter, Pieternel, de Lange-de Klerk, Elly S. M., Zuidema, Wietse P., Goslings, J. Carel, Bakker, Fred C.   +8 more
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EMERGENCIES IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICAL DISPATCHING IN POLAND. CHALLENGES IN THE COOPERATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAMS WITH MEDICAL DISPATCHERS

Archiv Euromedica
The article presents the organization of The State Emergency Medical System in Poland in terms of the operation of the medical dispensaries. Particular attention was paid to the cooperation of medical dispatch centers with Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) in the realities and circumstances of unexpected events.
Michał Borowczyk, Daniel Ślęzak, Kamil Krzyżanowski, Paulina Buca, Przemysław Żuratyński, Paweł Jastrzębski, Marcin Nowak   +6 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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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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Landscaping risk in medical emergency dispatch

Risk communication in high-stakes or time-pressured situations is complex. An emergency '999' call is one such example of a situation of where someone needs to find a way to explain an unfolding, serious situation and request immediate help. The emergency service needs to quickly and precisely ascertain what has happened, what help is needed and where ...
Jo Angouri, Shawnea S. P. Ting, Lyba Nadeen, Matthew Booker, David Rawlinson, Nigel Rees   +5 more
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