Features of Emergency Medical System calls that facilitate or inhibit Emergency Medical Dispatcher recognition that a patient is in, or at imminent risk of, cardiac arrest: A systematic mixed studies review [PDF]
Aim: To identify and appraise evidence relating to the features of an Emergency Medicine System call interaction that enable, or inhibit, an Emergency Medical Dispatcher’s recognition that a patient is in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, or at imminent ...
Kim Kirby +3 more
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Emergency medical dispatcher training as a strategy to improve pre-hospital care in low- and middle-income countries: the case study of Nepal [PDF]
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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Impact of early cardiac arrest recognition by emergency medical service dispatchers on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective population-based observational study [PDF]
Background Dispatch-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DACPR) improves out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcomes. However, there is no established gold standard for DACPR performance. This study aimed to investigate the association between time
Koji Yamamoto +8 more
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Background The European resuscitation council have highlighted emergency medical dispatch centres as an important key player for early recognition of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and in providing dispatcher assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Camilla Hardeland +13 more
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Live video versus audio-only emergency calls in simulated emergency medical dispatch: a randomized mixed-methods study [PDF]
Background Dispatchers in emergency medical coordination centers face the challenge that bystanders can usually only provide verbal information during medical emergency calls. However, accurate information is crucial for dispatching appropriate resources.
Mario Krammel +12 more
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Help-seeking and barriers to emergency care during out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in public housing areas: a qualitative study [PDF]
Introduction Understanding whether socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds influence help-seeking and communication with emergency medical services (EMS) is essential to mitigate disparities.Objective We explored how public housing residents seek help and ...
Christian Hassager +8 more
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LiVE-STROKE: live video from bystander to the medical dispatcher in potential stroke cases [PDF]
Background Identification of stroke during an emergency call remains challenging. We aimed to explore performed stroke examination with prehospital live video transmission during an emergency call from a bystander’s smartphone to the medical dispatcher ...
E. Rischel +5 more
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DispatchMAS: fusing taxonomy and artificial intelligence agents for emergency medical services [PDF]
Background Emergency medical dispatch is a critical, high-stakes process where dispatcher decisions directly impact patient outcomes. While standardized protocols exist, they are challenged by factors like caller distress, ambiguous symptom descriptions,
Xiang Li +19 more
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Emergency call training in primary school children: effects of instruction format and dispatcher influence [PDF]
BackgroundEarly activation of emergency medical services is the first link in the chain of survival, yet training in emergency call competence has received limited attention compared to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Anthea Peters +3 more
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Dispatcher-led triage to reduce futile EMS transport for suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: a narrative review and phased implementation framework [PDF]
Dispatcher-led triage for suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) may help reduce nonbeneficial emergency medical service (EMS) responses and transport by enabling conservative response modification in narrowly defined cases of obvious death (e.g.
Yoshinori Ito, Hideo Inaba
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