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System impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on New York City's emergency medical services

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
To describe the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on New York City's (NYC) 9‐1‐1 emergency medical services (EMS) system and assess the efficacy of pandemic planning to meet increased demands.
D. Prezant, Elizabeth A. Lancet, R. Zeig-Owens, Pamela H. Lai, David W. Appel, M. Webber, James Braun, C. Hall, G. Asaeda, B. Kaufman, M. Weiden   +10 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, Michel Terré, François Javaudin, Joël Jenvrin, Frédéric Berthier, Julien Labady, Brice Leclere, Emmanuel Montassier   +7 more
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The Emergency Medical Service Microbiome [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018
ABSTRACT Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are an integral component of the health care framework and function to transport patients from various locations to and between care facilities. In addition to physical injury, EMS personnel are expected to be at high risk to acquire and transmit health care-associated ...
Andrew J, Hudson, Graeme D, Glaister, Hans-Joachim, Wieden   +2 more
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Major challenges and barriers in clinical decision-making as perceived by emergency medical services personnel: a qualitative content analysis

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Having to work in unpredictable and critical conditions, emergency care services (EMS) personnel experience complicated situations at the scene of accidents which, inevitably, influence their clinical decisions.
Mostafa Bijani, Saeed Abedi, Shahnaz Karimi, Banafsheh Tehranineshat   +3 more
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Future directions for emergency medical services development in low- and middle-income countries.

Surgery
The lack of prehospital care access in low- and middle-income countries is one of the greatest unmet needs and, therefore, one of the most urgent priorities in global health.
Peter G. Delaney, Jon Moussally, Benjamin W. Wachira   +2 more
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Association of Real‐Time Feedback and Cardiopulmonary‐Resuscitation Quality Delivered by Ambulance Personnel for Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background High‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with improved survival from out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest and includes chest compression depth, chest compression rate, and chest compression fraction within international ...
Rasmus Meyer Lyngby, Tom Quinn, Roselil Maria Oelrich, Dimitra Nikoletou, Mads Christian Tofte Gregers, Julie Samsøe Kjølbye, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Fredrik Folke   +7 more
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Measuring spatio‐temporal accessibility to emergency medical services through big GPS data

Health and Place, 2019
Medical accessibility is an important indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of public health services. However, the previous medical accessibility studies mainly focus on spatial accessibility without considering temporal variation in population ...
Tianqi Xia, Xuan Song, Haoran Zhang, Xiaoya Song, H. Kanasugi, R. Shibasaki   +5 more
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The Danish prehospital emergency healthcare system and research possibilities

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
The emergency medical healthcare system outside hospital varies greatly across the globe - even within the western world. Within the last ten years, the demand for emergency medical service systems has increased, and the Danish emergency medical service ...
Tim Alex Lindskou, Søren Mikkelsen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Poul Anders Hansen, Gitte Jørgensen, Ole Mazur Hendriksen, Hans Kirkegaard, Peter Anthony Berlac, Morten Breinholt Søvsø   +8 more
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Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2013
Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a common medical emergency with significant mortality and significant neurological morbidity. Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) may be tasked to OHCA.
Lyon Richard M, Nelson Magnus J
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The emergency medical services in Singapore [PDF]

Resuscitation, 2006
ingapore is a cosmopolitan city state at the crossoads of Asia. It is one of the smallest countries in he world with a land area of 697.1 km2, 193 km of oastline and a population of 4.185million.1 It is ery densely populated. Singapore has been indeendent from Malaya for 40 years. It is an urban, eveloped republic with a president and a parliaent.
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