OBJECTIVES To examine changes in the emergency workload of the London Ambulance Service (LAS) between 1989 and 1999. METHODS All emergency responses by the LAS during week 16 in each of 1989, 1996, and 1999 were studied. For each week, 999 call responses were analysed by time and day of call, and age/sex of the patient. Call response rates were calculated using age/sex census population estim...

OBJECTIVE To describe outcomes of a third-year residency (PGY-3) program in family medicine/emergency medicine in terms of its graduates' practice characteristics and their self-assessed preparedness for practising emergency medicine. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent to graduates of Queen's University's family medicine residency programs. SETTING Recent graduates' practices. PARTICIPANTS A...

introduction : pre-hospital emergency systems provide service by franco-german and anglo american models. this study was carried out to compare the iranian emergency medical service (ems) with the two models regarding timing and equipment. methods : in this cross sectional study, response time, scene time, and transport time to hospital as well as ambulance equipment of five hundred thousand te...

Abstract. In the process of disaster emergency response, how to achieve rapid sharing geographic information data is still a difficult problem be solved. Combining demand for in response emergencies and major natural disasters China, investigating current situation existing sharing, based on actual service guarantee work, this paper researches analyzes demand, designs model, studies mechanism f...

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) mediates “emergency” granulopoiesis during infection, a process that is mimicked by clinical G-CSF use, yet we understand little about the intracellular signaling cascades that control demand-driven neutrophil production. Using a murine model with conditional deletion of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in bone marrow, we i...

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) mediates "emergency" granulopoiesis during infection, a process that is mimicked by clinical G-CSF use, yet we understand little about the intracellular signaling cascades that control demand-driven neutrophil production. Using a murine model with conditional deletion of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in bone marrow, we i...

of performance (EPs) for “Emergency Management” (EM) Standard EM.03.01.03, which addresses emergency management exercises for the home care program. Revised EP 1 and new EPs 18 and 19 become effective January 1, 2013. The EM standards have always required organizations to align the scope of their emergency management exercises with the scope of their emergency operations plan (EOP) and response...

Rapid “urbanization” (more than 50% of world’s population now resides in cities) coupled with the natural lack of coordination in usage of common resources (ex: bikes, ambulances, taxis, traffic personnel, attractions) has a detrimental effect on a wide variety of response (ex: waiting times, response time for emergency needs) and coverage metrics (ex: predictability of traffic/security patrols...

Disasters can cause many casualties and considerable destruction mainly because of ineffective preventive measures, incomplete preparedness, and weak relief logistics systems. After catastrophic events happen, quick and effective response is of great importance, so as to having an efficient logistic plan for distributing needed relief commodities efficiently and fairly among affected people. In...

Emergency services continue to evolve new operational and facility concepts in response to increasing demand for care and pressures for efficient, and safe, patient management. This article describes new models for "intake" of patients and for responding to peak demand that are radically changing the traditional emergency service. Application of Six Sigma and "Lean" analysis techniques are demo...