Understanding quality systems in the South African prehospital emergency medical services: a multiple exploratory case study [PDF]
BMJ Open Quality, 2020 Introduction In South Africa (SA), prehospital emergency care is delivered by emergency medical services (EMS) across the country. Within these services, quality systems are in their infancy, and issues regarding transparency, reliability and contextual ...
Maaret Castrén +3 more
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Requirement Analysis and Implementation of Smart Emergency Medical Services [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2018 Emergency medical service (EMS) occurs in a high-pressure and error-prone environment, where paramedics must provide prompt decisions in care while recording information with limited time, incomplete data, restricted resources, and competing priorities ...
Eunjeong Park +3 more
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Ubiquitous Emergency Medical Service System Based on Wireless Biosensors, Traffic Information, and Wireless Communication Technologies: Development and Evaluation [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 This study presents a new ubiquitous emergency medical service system (UEMS) that consists of a ubiquitous tele-diagnosis interface and a traffic guiding subsystem. The UEMS addresses unresolved issues of emergency medical services by managing the sensor wires for eliminating inconvenience for both patients and paramedics in an ambulance, providing ...
Tan-Hsu Tan +8 more
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Oslo government district bombing and Utøya island shooting July 22, 2011: The immediate prehospital emergency medical service response [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2012 Background On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two incidents.
Sollid Stephen JM +8 more
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A Vision on Intelligent Medical Service for Emergency on 5G and 6G Communication Era [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things, 2020 Emergency service is the most important research field for welfare of human kind. Some examples are ambulances and fire control truck. However, these conventional emergency services are not equipped with appropriate equipment to provide high QoS.
Sabuzima Nayak, Ripon Patgiri
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Public awareness of emergency medical services phone number
Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background: Activating the emergency medical services (EMS) system in case of medical emergencies must be quick and precise. This study was designed to measure public awareness of Riyadh's EMS phone number.
Abdullah A. Alabdali +6 more
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Automatic Information Exchange in the Early Rescue Chain Using the International Standard Accident Number (ISAN) [PDF]
, 2021 Thus far, emergency calls are answered by human operators who interview the calling person in order to obtain all relevant information. In the near future-based on the Internet of (Medical) Things (IoT, IoMT)-accidents, emergencies, or adverse health ...
Barakat, Ramon +9 more
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021 BACKGROUND: To avoid making decisions based on the unproven opinions of emergency medical technicians (EMTs), many emergency medical service (EMS) systems rely on emergency medical protocols.
Meysam Safi-Keykaleh +5 more
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Health Service Utilization in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Cross-sectional Public Survey [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 BackgroundAs health systems across the world respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there is rising concern that patients without COVID-19 are not receiving timely emergency care, resulting in avoidable deaths.
Kevin KC Hung +6 more
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