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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
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022 Background An effective emergency medical dispatch process is vital to provide appropriate prehospital care to patients. It increases patient safety and ensures the sustainable use of medical resources.
Sterre Otten +6 more
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The emergency medical service dispatch recommendation system using simulation based on bed availability. [PDF]
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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 ...
Maaret Castrén +5 more
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Stress and salivary cortisol in emergency medical dispatchers: A randomized shifts control trial. [PDF]
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 +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives This study aimed to assess whether trigger tools were useful identifying triage errors among patients referred to non-emergency care by emergency medical dispatch nurses, and to describe the characteristics of these patients.Design An ...
Ulrika Winblad +5 more
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Investigation of the Effect of Ergonomic Intervention on Medical Emergency Announce Time of Dispatch in Alborz [PDF]
Muhandisī-i bihdāsht-i ḥirfah/ī, 2019 Background and Objective: Effective communication is an important factor in pre-hospital care. The emergency medical communication and dispatch center is one of the most stressful work environments in the healthcare domain so that it is essential to ...
Ali Taherinia +3 more
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Stroke recognition efficiency by emergency medical dispatchers
International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2021 Background: Delaying treatment for an acute stroke can typically lead to further severity and disastrous consequences. The majority of patients, however, did not arrive at the hospital in time to get thrombolysis. While the accuracy of stroke diagnosis by emergency medical dispatchers (EMDs) remains uncertain.
Supalak Chaleepad +2 more
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often face significant challenges related to providing effective pre-hospital care services. Barriers to providing care include lack of financial resources, poor road infrastructure, lack of trained ...
Claire L. Jacobson +4 more
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An Overview of Shiraz Emergency Medical Services, Dispatch to Treatment [PDF]
Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, 2013 Advanced ambulance service (Emergency Medical Services/EMS) is considered to be an integral part of emergency medical care as the first assets responding to emergencies and disasters in the prehospital setting in most developed countries.The aim of this study was to evaluate the current situation of Shiraz's EMS by comparing data obtained during two ...
Per Örtenwal +4 more
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