BACKGROUND In Shenzhen, the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system has been in service since 1997. This study aims to examine the operation of Shenzhen 120 EMS center and to identify the reasons of calling EMS. METHODS In this retrospective quantitative descriptive study, the data from the Shenzhen 120 EMS registry in 2011 were analyzed. RESULTS Shenzhen 120 EMS center is a communication co...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze demographic data, clinical profile and outcomes of patients in emergency services according Manchester Triage System’s priority level. Methods: a cross-sectional, analytical study, carried out with 3,624 medical records. For statistical analysis, the Chi-Square Test was used. Results: white individuals were more advanced age. In red categories, there higher perce...

Due to the uncertainty of many of the factors that influence the performance of an emergency medical service, we propose using Bayesian networks to model this kind of system. We use different algorithms for learning Bayesian networks in order to build several models, from the hospital manager's point of view, and apply them to the specific case of the emergency service of a Spanish hospital. Th...

OBJECTIVE to determine whether the use of a helicopter ambulance unit enabled an ambulance service to deliver acutely traumatized patients to hospital more quickly. DESIGN retrospectively collected ambulance service and hospital records data analysed longitudinally. SETTINGS The ambulance service and the major casualty department in Cornwall. INTERVENTION the provision of a helicopter amb...

BACKGROUND There has been no previous study into the state of emergency medicine in Azerbaijan. As a legacy of the Soviet Semashko system, the "specialty" model of emergency medicine and integrated emergency departments do not exist here. Instead, pre-hospital emergency care is delivered by ambulance physicians and in-hospital care by individual departments, often in specialty hospitals. Emerge...

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is one of the most well-known technical standards for mobile devices. In this paper, a WAP based prototype is developed for the Emergency Service of Acibadem Hospital in Istanbul. Electronic health records (EHRs) can be provided by Tablet PCs or workstations. But, cellular phones are compact enough to provide EHRs with WAP service. This paper includes main co...

The National Health Service (NHS) is an organisation providing services and treatments in Primary, Secondary, Tertiary care across a spectrum of specialties. Disruptive technologies, treatments and new ways of delivery require the doctor and manager to work in an ever changing environment. Belfast like many cities across the UK needed big changes in delivering Emergency Medical Services. Prior ...

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...