Profile of emergency medical dispatch calls for breathing problems within the medical priority dispatch system protocol

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 412-419

  Clawson, Jeff ^a   Olola, Christopher ^a,b   Heward, Andy ^c   Patterson, Brett ^d   Scott, Greg ^a  

^a International Academies of Emergency Dispatch   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d International Academies of Emergency Dispatch (IAED)   (United States)

Author keywords

0 0 0 calls; 1 1 2 calls; 9 1 1 calls; 9 9 9 calls; breathing problems; cardiac arrest; cardiac arrest quotient; dispatch coding; dispatch system; high acuity; medical priority dispatch protocol; sensitivity; severe respiratory distress; specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LONDON; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61449119760     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00006142     Document Type: Article

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