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Variations in contact patterns and dispatch guideline adherence between Norwegian emergency medical communication centres - a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The 19 Norwegian Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) use Norwegian Index for medical emergency assistance (Index) as dispatch guidelines. Little is known about the use of Index, nor its validity.
Steinar Hunskaar, Torben Wisborg, Eirin N Ellensen, Hunskaar, Steinar, Ellensen, Eirin Nybø, Erik Zakariassen, Wisborg, Torben, Zakariassen, Erik   +7 more
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Population ageing and injurious falls among one million elderly people who used emergency medical services from 2010 to 2017 in Beijing, China: a longitudinal observational study

BMJ Open, 2019
ObjectivesTo access the epidemiological characteristics of elderly people using emergency medical services (EMS) in Beijing, as a consequence of injurious falls, and the association between an ageing population and injurious falls.DesignA longitudinal ...
Yu Cao, Yanni Lei, Fangchao Liu, Shiyu Shao, Jue Liu, Dongni Nie, Nannan Yang   +6 more
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Patient characteristics and dispatch responses of urinary tract infections in a prehospital setting in Copenhagen, Denmark: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is particularly common in young women and the elderly. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Copenhagen, Denmark can be reached by calling either of two dedicated telephone lines: 1–1-2 in case of an emergency ...
Jeske Verhoeven, Helle Collatz Christensen, Stig Nikolaj Blomberg, Simone Böbel, Mirjam Scholz, Thomas Krafft   +5 more
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Stress and salivary cortisol in emergency medical dispatchers: A randomized shifts control trial.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Stress at work is a public health concern. Phone operators in emergency medical dispatch centers are particularly at risk. We aimed to demonstrate that the most stressful time for emergency medical dispatchers is the shift when they receive emergency ...
Sarah Bedini, François Braun, Laurence Weibel, Michel Aussedat, Bruno Pereira, Frédéric Dutheil   +5 more
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Trauma-related dispatch criteria for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Europe [PDF]

, 2010
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
Patka, Petr, de Ronde, G (Gijs), Schipper, IB, Van Lieshout, Esther M.M., Van Lieshout, Esther M.M.; id_orcid, Wigman, LD (Laura)   +5 more
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Science of Emergency Medical Dispatch [PDF]

Circulation, 2009
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) claims the lives of almost 300 000 Americans each year,1 a loss of life equivalent to that caused by a September 11 World Trade Center attack on the United States every 3 days! Despite advances in public education on recognition of cardiac arrest, early notification of emergency medical services (EMS) 9-1-1 ...
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17 Accuracy in emergency medical dispatch [PDF]

Abstracts, 2017
Aim To compare the accuracy in priority level between two Swedish dispatching protocols – Medical Index, the criteria based protocol currently in use, and the newly developed Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System – Alarm (RETTS-A). Methods A randomised controlled non blinded simulation study was performed at the EMCC in Stockholm, Sweden ...
K Torlén, L Kurland, M Castrén, K Olanders, K Bohm   +4 more
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Additional file 2: Table S1. of Paediatric medical emergency calls to a Danish Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre: a retrospective, observational study

, 2018
Assigned dispatch codes. A table showing the assigned dispatch code for every included paediatric medical emergency call.
Zwisler, Stine Thorhauge, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre, Region of Southern Denmark, University of Southern Denmark, Jørgensen, Gitte, Andersen, Kasper, Mikkelsen, Søren   +6 more
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Cortical symptoms described in emergency calls for patients with suspected large vessel occlusion: a descriptive analysis of 157 emergency calls

, 2022
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical dispatchers typically use the dispatch code for suspected stroke when the caller brings up one or more symptoms from the face-arm-speech triad.
Vuorinen, Pauli, Huhtala, Heini, Alanko, Essi, Ollikainen, Jyrki, Hoppu, Sanna, Setälä, Piritta, Kiili, Joonas   +6 more
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Predictors of recognition of out of hospital cardiac arrest by emergency medical services call handlers in England: a mixed methods diagnostic accuracy study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background The aim of this study was to identify key indicator symptoms and patient factors associated with correct out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) dispatch allocation.
Caroline L. Watkins, Stephanie P. Jones, Margaret A. Hurley, Valerio Benedetto, Christopher I. Price, Christopher J. Sutton, Tom Quinn, Munirah Bangee, Brigit Chesworth, Colette Miller, Dawn Doran, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Josephine M. E. Gibson   +12 more
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