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Do ambulance crews triage trauma patients?
OBJECTIVE To determine whether ambulance crew triage trauma patients appropriately. DESIGN A retrospective descriptive study. SETTINGS Cornwall County Ambulance Service. VARIABLES STUDIED On-scene times, injury severity, establishment of intravenous infusion and time from scene to A&E department. SUBJECTS Patients with compound fracture of the lower limb taken to Truro Accident and Emer...
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BACKGROUND There is an increasing global burden of disease from injuries. Models of trauma care initially developed in high-income countries are also being adopted in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Amongst these ambulance crews with Advanced Life Support (ALS) training are being promoted in LMIC as a strategy for improving outcomes for victims of trauma. However there is controversy as...
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This paper addresses the problem of scheduling ambulance crews in order to maximize the coverage throughout a planning horizon. The problem includes the subproblem of locating ambulances to maximize expected coverage with probabilistic response times, for which a tabu search algorithm is developed. The proposed tabu search algorithm is empirically shown to outperform previous approaches for thi...
متن کاملDo ambulance crews with one advanced paramedic skills officer have longer scene times than crews with two?
OBJECTIVE In 1999, the Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS), Melbourne, Australia began implementing The Emergency Operations Plan (1998). One of the initiatives of the plan was the addition of crews with one advanced paramedic skills (APS) officer and one non-APS officer (mixed crews). All previous APS crews contained two APS officers working together. There was concern that mixed crews would ...
متن کاملResults of an evaluation of the effectiveness of triage and direct transportation to minor injuries units by ambulance crews.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate triage and transportation to a minor injury unit (MIU) by emergency ambulance crews. METHODS Ambulance crews in two services were asked to transport appropriate patients to MIU during randomly selected weeks of one year. During all other weeks they were to treat such patients according to normal practice. Patients were followed up through ambulance service, hospital and/...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.8.3.185