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A priority dispatch system for emergency medical services
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985A 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 ...
William R Elsea +4 more
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Emergency Medical Dispatch Codes Association with Emergency Department Outcomes
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2012Emergency 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 +3 more
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Handling of drug-related emergencies: an evaluation of emergency medical dispatch
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009Documenting 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.
Wik Lars, Saether Elisabeth, Lorem Tonje
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2002
EMD will always remain somewhat of an imprecise science by nature. 911 is, after all, the access point for lifesaving assistance, and citizens must have absolute freedom to this service. The consequence of having the freedom to request help from any location at any time is that some individuals will use it for the wrong reasons. Present-day dispatchers
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EMD will always remain somewhat of an imprecise science by nature. 911 is, after all, the access point for lifesaving assistance, and citizens must have absolute freedom to this service. The consequence of having the freedom to request help from any location at any time is that some individuals will use it for the wrong reasons. Present-day dispatchers
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The development of emergency medical dispatch in the USA
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995Emergency medical dispatch has evolved over the last 25 years from a system designed to limit abuse of the emergency medical services (EMS) to a sophisticated part of the total EMS response. Its current goal is to send the right thing to the right person at the right time in the right way and to do the right thing until help arrives.
Brian S. Zachariah, Paul E. Pepe
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Video Emergency Calls in Medical Dispatching: A Scoping Review
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2022AbstractBackground: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 +5 more
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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 +6 more
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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 +6 more
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Triage By Emergency Medical Dispatchers
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1992AbstractPurpose: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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Accuracy of determining cardiac arrest by emergency medical dispatchers
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994To 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
Daniel K. Henwood +3 more
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Availability and Use of an Automated External Defibrillator at Emergency Medical Dispatch
Prehospital Emergency Care, 2019Objective: 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 +4 more
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