Introduction: Neonatal care in India has witnessed a revolution in the last 10 years under the auspices of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The major causes of neonatal mortality in developing countries are Prematurity, Birth asphyxia and Sepsis. Institutional delivery and in utero transport of newborn is the safest way to transport a sick neonate. But unfortunately preterm delivery and ma...

Response times of ambulances to calls from Midwife Obstetric Units, although varied, are perceived as slow. Delays in transporting women experiencing complications during or after their pregnancies to higher levels of care may have negative consequences such as fetal, neonatal or maternal morbidity or death. An exploratory descriptive study was undertaken to investigate the response times of am...

Background Accurate identification of serious injury is critical to the tasking of scarce resources like air ambulances and for the effective triage of injured patients to trauma centres. This service dispatches a doctor-paramedic team to major trauma patients. Dispatch is based on mechanism of injury (MOI); dispatching control room paramedic interrogation of caller (INT) or request after asses...

Abstract Background & Aims of the Study: When the issue of the quality of the patient's care is addressed, determination of infection degrees in reference to the quality of such cares has gained a high priority. Therefore, infections in ambulance equipment might play a significant role in reduction of the quality of the hospital cares. This study was conducted wishing to det...

In this paper we describe a distributed architecture that could be used to link emergency medical centres, hospitals, telephone operators, and ambulances into a hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid system for the sharing of information and transport of data. Distributed computing techniques can be used to connect static and mobile systems, bringing the different tools, expertise and databases tog...

The St. John Ambulance Service (Auckland Region) in New Zealand (St Johns) supplies ambulance services to the Crown Health Enterprises. Current and future contracts specify several minimum performance targets that St Johns must achieve. As the city of Auckland grows, roads become congested, and population demographics change. These changes mean that St. Johns faces a very difficult problem: how...

Introduction The emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) has an important role as the first medical contact in the emergency response system. It's crucial for the EMD to avoid inappropriate assignment of low acuity and thereby cause delay in the ambulance response. However, it is also important to avoid overtriage in the assessment of the call. There is a lack of studies concerning feedback systems ...

The ultimate goal of emergency medical service systems is to save lives. However, most emergency medical service systems have performance measures for responding to 911 calls within a fixed timeframe (i.e., a response time threshold), rather than measures related to patient outcomes. These response time thresholds are used because they are easy to obtain and to understand. This paper proposes a...