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The triage performance of emergency medical dispatch prioritisation compared to prehospital on-scene triage in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. [PDF]

BMC Emerg Med
Binks F, Wallis LA, Stassen W.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ambulance route optimization in a mobile ambulance dispatch system using deep neural network (DNN) [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The ambulance dispatch system plays a crucial role in emergency medical care by ensuring efficient communication, reducing response times, and ultimately saving lives.
C. Selvan, Basha H. Anwar, Soumyalatha Naveen, Shaik Thasleem Bhanu   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Validity of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Criteria for Traumatic Injuries: A Systematic Review [PDF]

, 2009
Objective. This review provides an overview of the validity of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatch criteria for severely injured patients. Methods. A systematic literature search was performed.
Akkie N. Ringburg, Gijs de Ronde, Stephen H. Thomas, Esther M.M. Van Lieshout, P. Patka, Inger B. Schipper   +5 more
openalex   +4 more sources

Proposing A Key Performance Indicator For Security Response Time Within A Healthcare Facility

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2023
INTRODUCTION The safety of patients and property in healthcare settings is directly influenced by security response time, yet this critical aspect is often overlooked.
Ghaida Almahawes, Anas AlToijry, Rawan Alboqami , Saud Alnahdi , Bandr Mzahim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
Laura D. Wigman, Esther M.M. Van Lieshout, Gijs de Ronde, P. Patka, Inger B. Schipper   +4 more
openalex   +4 more sources

Documented Use of Emergency Medical Dispatch Protocols is Associated with Improved Survival in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2023
Objective There are over 300,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually in the United States (US) and despite many scientific advances in the field, the survival rate remains low.
A. Colgan, M. Swanson, Azeemuddin Ahmed, K. Harland, N. Mohr   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Discovering Key Topics in Emergency Medical Dispatch from Free Text Dispatcher Observations

Medical Informatics Europe, 2022
The objective of this work was to discover key topics latent in free text dispatcher observations registered during emergency medical calls. We used a total of 1374931 independent retrospective cases from the Valencian emergency medical dispatch service ...
Pablo Ferri Borreda, C. Sáez, Antonio Felix de Castro, Purificación Sánchez-Cuesta, J. M. García-Gómez   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reduction of MERS-CoV Transmission among Healthcare Workers and Patients in Saudi Arabian Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2023
Background No review consolidating available evidence of the various interventions for preventing MERS-CoV transmission in healthcare settings has been published to inform practice.
Salem Al Ammi, Bandr Mzahim, Hisham Alomari, Bandar Almutairi, Abdulrahman Alzahrani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of obvious death by clinically trained emergency medical dispatchers in a criteria-based dispatch system. [PDF]

Int J Emerg Med
Jaspard L, Beysard N, Dami F.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The organization of ambulance decontamination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a process analysis based on the Lean Thinking philosophy

Emergency Care Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic led to massively increased emergency medical services (EMS) activity. The need to decontaminate emergency vehicles after conveying a suspected or confirmed patient to the hospital represented a critical step, slowing the activities ...
Guglielmo Imbriaco, Alfonso Flauto
doaj   +1 more source