BACKGROUND High levels of stress among ambulance personnel have been attributed to the conditions of ambulance work. However, there is little research to support this notion, and it has been questioned whether ambulance work is inherently stressful. We compared the severity and frequency level of organizational and ambulance-specific stressors, and studied their relationship to organizational c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the actual impact on coronary mortality of equipping ambulances with defibrillators. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of routine medical and legal records of all those who had a cardiac arrest attributed to coronary heart disease occurring outside hospital in a defined population before and after the introduction of Heartstart. SETTING City of Glasgow, North of the River Cl...

The purpose of this study is to find a proper prehospital transportation scenario planning of an emergency medical service (EMS) system for possible burdensome casualties resulting from extreme climate events. This project focuses on one of the worst natural catastrophic events in Taiwan, the 88 Wind-caused Disasters, caused by the Typhoon Morakot; the case of the EMS transportation in the Xiao...

Elif Tokar Erdemir, Rajan Batta, Peter A. Rogerson, Alan Blatt, and Marie Flanigan 1: Industrial and Systems Engineering Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 2: Center for Transportation Injury Research, CUBRC, Buffalo, NY 14225 3: Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260 4: Dept. of Geography, University at Buffalo (SUNY) 5...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pre- and intrahospital time delays are major concerns in acute stroke care. Telemedicine-equipped ambulances may improve time management and identify patients with stroke eligible for thrombolysis by an early prehospital stroke diagnosis. The aims of this study were (1) to develop a telestroke ambulance prototype; (2) to test the reliability of stroke severity assessment;...

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