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Outpatient care in acute and prehospital emergency medicine by emergency medical and patient transport service over a 10-year period: a retrospective study based on dispatch data from a German emergency medical dispatch centre (OFF-RESCUE). [PDF]

BMC Emerg Med, 2021
Schehadat MS, Scherer G, Groneberg DA, Kaps M, Bendels MHK.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Emergency call utilization over a 10-years period: an observational study in Region Zealand, Denmark, 2013–2022 [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Improving prehospital emergency care requires a comprehensive understanding of the efficiency of emergency medical services and demand fluctuations.
Thea Palsgaard Møller, Josefine Tangen Jensen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Helle Collatz Christensen   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Video livestreaming from medical emergency callers’ smartphones to emergency medical dispatch centres: a scoping review of current uses, opportunities, and challenges

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Timely dispatch of appropriate emergency medical services (EMS) resources to the scene of medical incidents, and/or provision of treatment at the scene by bystanders and medical emergency lay callers (referred to as ‘callers’ in this review ...
Carin Magnusson, Lucie Ollis, Scott Munro, Jill Maben, Anthony Coe, Oliver Fitzgerald, Cath Taylor   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Do emergency medical dispatchers choose the same response to serious injury in men and women – a qualitative study [PDF]

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Recent research has indicated that sex is an important determinant of emergency medical response in patients with possible serious injuries. Men were found to receive more advanced prehospital treatment and more helicopter transportation and ...
Marlene Mellum, Raika Saei, Guttorm Brattebø, Torben Wisborg   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Retrospective analysis of trauma patients transported by dispatch monitored type B ambulances to Dhulikhel Hospital, Kavre, Nepal, 2019–2023 [PDF]

International Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background Timely emergency medical services (EMS) are particularly important among trauma patients, as inefficient EMS systems can result in potentially avoidable death before reaching a hospital.
Maxwell L. Mantych, Shiva Neupane, Machchendra Sapkota, Laura D. Cassidy, Sarah C. Young, Ronald Anguzu, Samjhana Basnet   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Correlation between the accuracy of the emergency response centre’s urgency assessment and emergency medical services non-conveyance: a retrospective register-based study in Finland [PDF]

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background In modern emergency medical services (EMS), ambulances increasingly focus on examining and treating the patient at the scene. This has led to increased levels of non-conveyance. In Finland, for instance, approximately 40% of EMS dispatches end
Tomi Salminen, Kaius Kaartinen, Mira Palonen, Piritta Setälä, Eija Paavilainen, Sanna Hoppu   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Trauma-related dispatch criteria for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Europe [PDF]

, 2011
Introduction: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are used worldwide in order to provide potentially life-saving pre-hospital medical support to trauma patients at the accident scene. It is currently unclear how much overlap exists regarding the
Lieshout, E.M.M. (Esther) van, Patka, P. (Peter), Ronde, G. (Gijs) de, Schipper, I.B. (Inger), Wigman, L.D. (Laura)   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Physician Medical Direction of Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Programs [PDF]

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2017

openalex   +3 more sources

An Online Decision-Theoretic Pipeline for Responder Dispatch [PDF]

, 2019
The problem of dispatching emergency responders to service traffic accidents, fire, distress calls and crimes plagues urban areas across the globe. While such problems have been extensively looked at, most approaches are offline. Such methodologies fail to capture the dynamically changing environments under which critical emergency response occurs, and
Duchi John, Goldberg Andrew V, Kingma Diederik P, Mukhopadhyay Ayan, Robbins Herbert, Songchitruksa Praprut, Taoka George T., Zhang Chao   +7 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers [PDF]

Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2014
Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation.
Caroline L Watkins, Stephanie P Jones, Michael J Leathley, Gary A Ford, Tom Quinn, Joanna J McAdam, Josephine ME Gibson, Kevin C Mackway-Jones, Stuart Durham, David Britt, Sara Morris, Mark O’Donnell, Hedley CA Emsley, Shuja Punekar, Anil Sharma, Chris J Sutton   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources