OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential impact for ambulance services of telephone assessment and triage for callers who present with non-serious problems (Category C calls) as classified by ambulance service call takers. DESIGN Pragmatic controlled trial. Calls identified using priority dispatch protocols as non-serious were allocated to intervention and control groups according to time of ca...

Ambulance crashes are a significant risk to prehospital care providers, the patients they are carrying, persons in other vehicles, and pedestrians. No uniform national transportation or medical database captures all ambulance crashes in the United States. A website captures many significant ambulance crashes by collecting reports in the popular media (the website is mentioned in the introductio...

(2012) Exposure to hot and cold temperatures and ambulance attendances in Brisbane, Australia: A time series study. BMJ Open, 2(4). Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source: Article focus: • To examine the relationship betwe...

Objectives: This article is a review of the literature on the changing role of the ambulance paramedic in the light of recent changes in UK Government policy towards the ambulance service. Methods: A systematic review of the literature on the Ambulance Service in the UK was carried out with regard to the expanding role and skills of ambulance paramedics in assessing, treating and advising patie...

BACKGROUND Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) have been rarely studied from epidemiological approaches. The objective of this study is to establish the epidemiological profile of MCI in the autonomous region of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) and analyse ambulance deployment and severity of patients. METHODS This is a population-based prospective study run in 2014. Inclusion criteria for MCI ...

BACKGROUND Survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remain low, despite remarkable efforts to improve care. A number of ambulance services in the United Kingdom (UK) have developed prehospital critical care teams (CCTs) which attend critically ill patients, including OHCA. However, current scientific evidence describing CCTs attending OHCA is sparse and research to date has not...

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) misdiagnosis has many broad implications for the patient and the neurologist. potentially curative treatments exist for certain als mimic syndromes, but delay in starting these therapies may have an unfavorable effect on outcome. hence, it is important to exclude similar conditions. in this review, we discuss some of the important mimics of als.

SinciC the abolition of Dundreary whiskers and the pill?box hat, the Indian army has undergone many changes in both training and equipment and in its methods of attack and defence, but the field ambulance has changed in little but its name. Anyone who has had to do with a brigade in the field knows that the field ambulance is regarded as either a joke or a nuisance, and is an eyesore on the mar...

OBJECTIVE Effective provision of urgent stroke care relies upon admission to hospital by emergency ambulance and may involve pre-hospital redirection. The proportion and characteristics of patients who do not arrive by emergency ambulance and their impact on service efficiency is unclear. To assist in the planning of regional stroke services we examined the volume, characteristics and prognosis...