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Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2021 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To describe strategies employed by registered nurses for handling difficult calls to emergency medical dispatch centres. BACKGROUND At emergency medical dispatch centres, registered nurses encounter a range of difficult calls in ...
I. Holmström +4 more
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Prehospital Emergency Care, 2021 Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems have received guidelines as part of coordinated response efforts aimed at mitigating exposures and ensuring occupational wellbeing, including recommendations of ...
M. McCann-Pineo +5 more
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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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Nursing and Health Sciences, 2021 Non-urgent and urgent telephone nursing services are increasing globally, and phenomenographic research has shown that how work is understood may influence work performance.
Elenor Kaminsky +4 more
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Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 BackgroundHealthcare medical dispatch systems play a fundamental role in the daily operations of prehospital services. This includes facilitating the interpretation of various dispatch-related systems, receiving incident calls, categorizing cases ...
Yousef M. Alsofayan +12 more
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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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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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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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Connect dispatch centers for call handling improves performance
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019 The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report a strategy to reduce time waiting for emergency calls in a dispatch center, in line with a recently published article that reviewed evidence for medical dispatching systems to accurately dispatch ...
Yann Penverne +7 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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