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Joint location and dispatching decisions for Emergency Medical Services
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2013The main purpose of Emergency Medical Service systems is to save lives by providing quick response to emergencies. The performance of these systems is affected by the location of the ambulances and their allocation to the customers. Previous literature has suggested that simultaneously making location and dispatching decisions could potentially improve
Hector Toro-Díaz +3 more
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Adverse drug reactions in an emergency medical dispatching centre
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2014The purpose of this study is to assess the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADR) leading to call an emergency medical dispatching centre.A prospective, observational, monocentric clinical study performed over a 2-year period (2011-2012) in a French prehospital emergency dispatching centre, the Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente (SAMU) covering 1,156 ...
E, Dehours +5 more
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Accuracy of determining cardiac arrest by emergency medical dispatchers
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994To identify and determine the rates of delivery and performance of telephone CPR in noncardiac arrest incidents.We studied prospectively all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and potential cardiac arrest incidents from July 1 through October 31, 1992.King County, Washington, excluding the city of Seattle.Persons with cardiac arrest or an initial complaint
J J, Clark +3 more
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Evaluation of the Computer-Based Dispatching System for Emergency Medical Dispatch
2000The work makes an evaluation of the benefits brought by the system to the Ambulance Service of the City of Bucharest (ASCB) as well as to those who are using it, and of the conditions that permitted the bringing into operation of the system and made possible work with this system 7 days per week, 24 hours out of 24 for over 4 years.
Rîpanu Aneta, Oprisan Mircea
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Work-related stress in an emergency medical dispatch center
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2003Stress is an emergent occupational problem in modern societies. Among workers, medical practitioners are particularly exposed. However, data objectifying stress levels during work time are scarce. The aim of this study was to establish diurnal salivary cortisol levels in a highly stressful work environment, the medical dispatch center of an emergency ...
Laurence, Weibel +3 more
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Information flow and situational awareness in emergency medical dispatch
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2016One of the key factors in the daily work in emergency medical dispatch incident monitoring is ensuring that they have enough of the right type of information when making decisions and cooperating with other authorities. Finding out the critical information needed and the flow of information during multi-authority missions when receiving and sharing ...
Teija Norri-Sederholm +3 more
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Landscaping risk in medical emergency dispatch
Risk communication in high-stakes or time-pressured situations is complex. An emergency '999' call is one such example of a situation of where someone needs to find a way to explain an unfolding, serious situation and request immediate help. The emergency service needs to quickly and precisely ascertain what has happened, what help is needed and where ...Jo Angouri +5 more
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Evaluation of the computer-based dispatching system for emergency medical dispatch.
Studies in health technology and informatics, 2001The work makes an evaluation of the benefits brought by the system to the Ambulance Service of the City of Bucharest (ASCB) as well as to those who are using it, and of the conditions that permitted the bringing into operation of the system and made possible work with this system 7 days per week, 24 hours out of 24 for over 4 years.
A, Rîpanu, M, Oprisan
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