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Adverse drug reactions in an emergency medical dispatching centre
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2014The 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 ...
Vincent Bounes +5 more
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Work-related stress in an emergency medical dispatch center
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2003Stress 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 +3 more
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The Norwegian Medical Dispatch System and the Norwegian Index for Emergency Medical Dispatch
Notfall + Rettungsmedizin, 2012The 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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The role of protocols and professional judgement emergency medical dispatching
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995The 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
André-Pierre Contandriopoulos +5 more
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Equity-constrained dispatching models for emergency medical services [PDF]
Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 2017 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply agent-based modeling and simulation concepts in evaluating different approaches to solve ambulance-dispatching decision problems under bounded rationality. The paper investigates the effect of over-responding, i.e.
Ram Babu Roy, V K Sreekanth
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Describing Situation Awareness at an Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre [PDF]
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2004 In this paper we describe findings on Situation Awareness (SA) from a field study on decision making in ambulance control, or Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD). Triangulating the results from observations and Contextual Inquiry interviews of 18 participants, with 13 Critical Decision Methods in-depth interviews, we found, among other things, that EMD ...
Ann Blandford, B. L. William Wong
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2008
AbstractIntroduction:A common chief complaint to emergency dispatch communication centers worldwide is “breathing problems”. The chief complaint of breathing problems represents a wide spectrum of underlying diseases, patient conditions, and onset types.
Jeff Clawson +4 more
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AbstractIntroduction:A common chief complaint to emergency dispatch communication centers worldwide is “breathing problems”. The chief complaint of breathing problems represents a wide spectrum of underlying diseases, patient conditions, and onset types.
Jeff Clawson +4 more
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How to evaluate an emergency medical dispatch system
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1995In 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.
Walter Buylaert +3 more
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Criteria for cancelling helicopter emergency medical Services (HEMS) dispatches
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2011In 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, G.F. +8 more
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Unrecognized cardiac arrests: A one-year review of audio from emergency medical dispatch calls.
American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022D. Crabb +7 more
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