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Journal articles on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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Thomas, Jeffrey A. "Teaching Applied Ethics in Fire & Emergency Medical Services." Teaching Ethics 11, no. 2 (2011): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tej20111122.

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Tomlin, Patricia A. "Emergency medical services educator for a city fire department." Journal of Emergency Nursing 22, no. 6 (December 1996): 541–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0099-1767(96)80207-8.

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PIRRALLO, R. "Lessons learned from an emergency medical services fire safety intervention*1." Prehospital Emergency Care 8, no. 2 (April 2004): 171–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prehos.2003.12.009.

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Mansoor, Shehzad Adil, Humayun Suqrat Hasan Imam, and Muhammad Asif Shahzad. "EMERGENCY SERVICES (1122)." Professional Medical Journal 22, no. 02 (February 10, 2015): 163–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.02.1366.

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Emergency services were working all over the world to deal with different types ofemergencies and the frequency of emergencies were increased with the passage of time. Manydeveloping countries even don’t have such services and it was difficult to estimate the scaleof emergencies in those countries. Objectives: To know about the types of emergencies andto help to plan for their prevention in future. Place and duration of study: Data was collectedfrom emergency services department 1122 in four big cities of Punjab from Nov.2004-Feb.2014.Methods: Descriptive observational study. Results: The road traffic emergencies received were243481 in Lahore, 92367 in Faisal Abad, 52507 in Multan and33847 in Rawalpindi. Medicalemergencies were 247692 in Lahore, 82910 in Faisal Abad, 112531 in Multan and 31069 inRawalpindi. Fire incidences were 14594 in Lahore, 6369 in Faisal Abad, 3707 in Multan and3929 in Rawalpindi. Crime incidence related emergencies were 13301 in Lahore, 15051 in FaisalAbad, 5326 in Multan and 1705 in Rawalpindi. Conclusions: Road traffic related emergencieswere increased even some times more than medical emergencies. Fake calls were also inhigher proportion.

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Vilke, Gary M., Alan M. Smith, Barbara M. Stepanski, Leslie Upledger Ray, Patricia A. Murrin, and Theodore C. Chan. "Impact of the San Diego County Firestorm on Emergency Medical Services." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 21, no. 5 (October 2006): 353–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00004003.

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AbstractBackground:In October 2003, San Diego County, California, USA, experienced the worst firestormin recent history. During the firestorm, public health leaders implemented multiple initiatives to reduce its impact on community health using health updates and news briefings. This study assessed the impact of patients with fire-related complaints on the emergency medical services (EMS) system during and after the firestorm.Methods:A retrospective review of a prehospital database was performed for all patients who were evaluated by advanced life support (ALS) ambulance personnel after calling the 9-1-1 emergency phone system for direct, fire related complaints from 19 October 2003 through 30 November 2003 in San Diego County. The study location has an urban, suburban, rural, and remote resident population of approximately three million and covers 4,300 square miles (2,050 km2). The prehospital patient database was searched for all patients with a complaint that was related directly to the fires. Charts were abstracted for data, including demographics, medical issues, treatments, and disposition status.Results:During the firestorm, fire consumed >380,000 acres (>938,980 hectares), including 2,454 residences and 785 outbuildings, and resulted in a total of 16 fatalities. Advanced life support providers evaluated 138 patients for fire related complaints. The majority of calls were for acute respiratory complaints. Other complaints included burns, trauma associated with evacuation or firefighting, eye injuries, and dehydration. A total of 78% of the injuries were mild. Twenty percent of the victims were firefighters, most with respiratory complaints, eye injuries, or injuries related to trauma. A total of 76% of the patients were transported to the hospital, while 10% signed out against medical advice.Conclusion:Although the firestorm had the potential to significantly impact EMS, pre-emptive actions resulted in minimal impact to emergency departments and the prehospital system. However, during the event, therewere a number of lessons learned that can be used in future events.

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Persse, David E., Jeffrey L. Jarvis, Jerry Corpening, and Bobbie Harris. "Customer Satisfaction in a Large Urban Fire Department Emergency Medical Services System." Academic Emergency Medicine 11, no. 1 (January 2004): 106–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2004.tb01381.x.

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Persse, David E., Jeffrey L. Jarvis, Jerry Corpening, and Bobbie Harris. "Customer Satisfaction in a Large Urban Fire Department Emergency Medical Services System." Academic Emergency Medicine 11, no. 1 (January 2004): 106–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1197/j.aem.2003.07.020.

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Lim, Jae-Man. "Legal Review of the Expansion of the Scope of Work for 119 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Personnel." Fire Science and Engineering 35, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 105–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/kifse.4a44b46d.

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Emergency services by fire-fighting agencies are an important subject of study. As 119 EMS personnel provide first aid to patients and transfer them to emergency room, the first aid they render involves medical practice and therefore requires research from a legal point of view. This study is based on current laws (as of Feb 2021) and an analysis and review of rulings of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, as well as data from the National Fire Agency’s Statistical Yearbook. Fire-fighting agencies hire and assigned individuals who hold the requisite certificate, and the legitimacy of medical practice by 119 EMS personnel is based on the qualifications they hold, not their status as fire officials, as per the EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ACT. If their scope of work is expanded by the revision of the ACT ON 119 RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, their medical practice is justified based on the combination of their qualifications and status (fire officials).

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Gershon, Robyn R. M., David Vlahov, Gabor Kelen, Bruce Conrad, and Larry Murphy. "Review of Accidents/Injuries Among Emergency Medical Services Workers in Baltimore, Maryland." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 10, no. 1 (March 1995): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00041583.

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AbstractObjectives:To characterize the types of occupational exposures and injuries reported by emergency medical service (EMS) workers.Methods:A blinded review of accidents/exposures among EMS workers employed by a Baltimore County fire department was conducted. Medical records for 1992 were reviewed.Results:Two hundred and twenty-six reports were filed by EMS workers (n = 197) employed by a large, urban fire department in 1992. The most commonly reported injuries were sprains (23%), strains (20%), and exposure to blood and body fluids (15%). The body site most commonly injured was the back (20%) followed by the respiratory system (10%). Most incidents were treated at the employee health clinic, and 13% of the incidents resulted in a hospital visit. Fifteen percent of the injuries resulted in more than seven lost work days. Most incidents were caused by stretcher mishaps, especially during transport of heavy patients. Walkway impediments (e.g., icy steps, wet leaves, broken and uneven pathways) also played an important role in creating slipping and tripping hazards.Conclusion:These results suggest a variety of prevention strategies aimed at reducing accidents and exposures among EMS workers.

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Murrin, Patricia, and Anne Marcotte. "5. Fire! Impact of a Firestorm on the San Diego County Emergency Medical Services System." Journal of Emergency Nursing 30, no. 5 (October 2004): 404–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2004.07.011.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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Holland, William Mark. "Fire/Emergency Medical Services and coping methods mitigating traumatic stress symptomatology /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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O'Brien, Adrianne, and Adrianne O'Brien. "Comparing Staffing Models for Fire Based Mobile Urgent Medical Services." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626318.

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Background: Comparing Full-Time (FT) and Part-Time (PT) staffing models for a mobile integrated health (MIH) program established by a local Fire Department. Objective: Determine if the program is sustainable and which staffing model is more effective at obtaining sustainability. Design: Quality Improvement project with retrospective data review. Setting: Green Valley Fire District in Green Valley, Arizona. A predominant retirement community. Target: The residents of the Green Valley Fire District. Interventions: Utilizing the RE-AIM framework, a retrospective review of the data collected by the previously implemented MIH Program in Green Valley was completed. The framework was utilized to review relevant data and determine if the program has achieved the expected outcomes, and maintained a sustainable and transferable MIH program. Measurement: Decrease in emergency medical (EM) calls for service with the implementation of the MIH program. Comparing staffing models for consistency in services. Results: The results showed a decline in EM calls for service with the MIH program, and more consistency in availability and patient services with the FT staffing model. Limitations: The demographics of the community limit the generalizability and transferability of the data obtained from the project. Additional data should be collected and analyzed both retrospectively and for successive years to substantiate the benefits and continue to improve the effectiveness of the MIH program. Conclusions: The program could be used as a model for other MIH programs, with adjustments made for the respective community. The value or sustainability of any MIH program cannot be limited to revenue solely. Other perspectives of value added service and cost savings must also be considered. Significance: This study highlights the effectiveness of an MIH program in a small retirement community and shows the benefit of a FT staffing model versus a PT staffing model for consistency of patient care and daily program operations. There are also multiple aspects of value to an MIH program, some of which are difficult to conceptualize and measure based on historical models of healthcare delivery and Fire Department Services. Further review of these types of programs is needed to establish the overall benefits of MIH.

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Shum, Kwok-leung, and 沈國良. "The relationship between management and staff in the Fire Services Department: the case of the ambulancemen." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965635.

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Stedman, Robert W. "An evaluation of the level of service and delivery costs of fire and emergency medical service in Waukesha County, Wisconsin." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000stedmanr.pdf.

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Shum, Kwok-leung. "The relationship between management and staff in the Fire Services Department : the case of the ambulancemen /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18596824.

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Snyder, Hal Steven 1959. "AN EVALUATION OF COUNSELING SERVICES FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276426.

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Siu, Jennifer C. W. "Screening for psychological adjustment in emergency services job candidates / Jennifer C. W. Siu." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18461.pdf.

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Mcguire-Wolfe, Christine Michelle. "Practices and Factors Influencing Sharps Use and Safety in a Suburban FIre Department and Among Emergency Medical Services Personnel." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4541.

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Needlestick injuries (NSIs) are a recognized risk for occupationally-related transmission of bloodborne pathogens (BBP). The occurrence of NSIs and BBP exposures among firefighters (FFs) and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel has been documented. The purposes of this study were: 1) to define the problem of NSI among FFs and EMS personnel in a suburban fire department (FD) and identify practices and factors that influence sharps use and safety; 2) design and implement and intervention to promote safer sharps device usage; and 3) to measure the effectiveness of the intervention among FFs and EMS personnel. A multi-phase, mixed methods approach was used that included a diagnosis phase that utilized a mixed methods exploratory design, an intervention period, and a quantitative evaluation phase that used a before and after evaluation design. In the diagnosis phase, data regarding sharps device practices were obtained through a count of discarded sharps devices. Qualitative data regarding sharps practices and factors which influenced those practice were obtained via focus groups. The PRECEDE/PROCEED model (PPM) was used as the theoretical framework for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of an intervention to increase the occurrence of safer sharps device behaviors and decrease the frequency of riskier sharps device behaviors. The evaluation phase included a post-intervention sharps count and a post-intervention survey to assess changes in sharps practices and the impact of the intervention. During the baseline sharps count, 2743 sharps devices were counted and classified according to pre-established categories of safer or risky behaviors for NSI. Altered safety devices on IV stylets were the highest count for unsafe behaviors (n=105), followed by recapped traditional needles (n= 53). A statistically significant increase in risky behaviors was observed in discarded sharps from engines, as opposed to ambulances, among all sharps devices combined (p=0.000) and IV stylets (p=0.000). When comparing advanced life support (ALS) medications to all other medications, a statistically significant increase in unsafe behaviors occurred among all sharps devices combined (p=0.000) and prefilled syringes (p=0.000). Input from eight focus groups of firefighters allowed for identification of multiple themes which guided the development of an intervention. The intervention included distribution of a hands-on training kit and booklet, expansion of an existing required BBP training, and posters to increase awareness regarding NSI prevention. In the evaluation phase, a total of 2178 sharps devices were counted and classified in a post-intervention sharps count. Altered safety devices on IV stylets were the highest count of unsafe behaviors (n=50). Recapped traditional needles were the second highest count of unsafe behaviors (n=27), but experienced an 18.7% drop in frequency when compared to baseline. When comparing riskier behaviors to the pre-intervention baseline sharps count, statistically significant decreases in risky behaviors were observed in all sharps devices combined ( 2=25.71, p=0.000), IV stylets (2=16.87, p=0.000), and traditional needles (=5.07, p=0.024). A post-intervention survey, consisting of 15 Likert scale questions, was returned by 165 out of 383 active field personnel (41.3%). Results indicated high frequencies of strongly agree and somewhat agree responses regarding risk perception; the importance of using safer needle devices; the impact of the intervention on safer needle practices and sharps safety awareness. Critical predisposing, reinforcing, enabling, and environmental factors which influenced sharps device practices were identified. This study identified factors and practices which influenced unsafe sharps device behaviors. Due to the statistically significant decreases in risky behavior in the post-intervention sharps count and the positive responses in the post-intervention survey, it can be concluded that the intervention did positively impact sharps device behavior and reduced the risk of NSI. The implications of the study are numerous and include a need to explore these practices and factors at other fire departments and EMS agencies, address gaps in regulations; promote research targeting FFs and EMS personnel in regard to NSI, and promote a nationwide effort to prevent NSI among emergency responders.

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Chen, Yi-Ju, and 陳怡儒. "Analysis of Emergency Medical Services Cost:Usingthe Taoyuan City Fire Department as a Paradigm." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nktt2r.

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This study investigated first-line firefighters at the Taoyuan City Fire Department to determine their perceptions of the charges associated with providing emergency medical services (EMSs). A questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 525 firefighters, yielding a valid return rate of81.52%.The data were analyzed through a descriptive statistics, an independent samples ttest, one-way analysis of variance, and correlational analysis. The research findings are summarized as follows.First, the firefighters expressed consensus that charging for EMS may be an effective approach to regulating EMS resources to avoid improper use by the public.Second, they considered that the public was relatively uninformed regarding the system of charging for EMS, although they agreed througha group review and meetingthat efforts aimed at promoting EMS to the public should be ongoing.Third, because the level of seniority and service region differed among the interviewed firefighters, their views differed significantly regarding whether charging for EMS would be effective in regulating the use of EMSs, and whether factors such as individual financial status and service contentshould be considered when charging for EMSs.Fourth, the view of whether to charge for EMSs differed significantly among the firefighters, depending on their educational background and service region.Finally, the policy of charging for EMSscorrelated positively with the current status of its policy receptionin the Taoyuan City Fire Department. On the basis of these findings, the following suggestionsare proposed.First, National Fire Agency of the Ministry of the Interior should consider comprehensive fee-charging regulations for EMSswhen developing future policies.Second, the income generated from chargingfor EMSscould be used to purchase firefighting equipment and provide emergency aid services.Third, the Taoyuan City Fire Department should consider including the cost of medical prescriptions and supplies in the EMS charges according to a user-pays principle.Fourth, policy promotion may be facilitated using the mass media and the Internet.Fifth, effective communication channels should be maintained to achieve consensus between the government and the public. Sixth, suggested the public cherish the EMS resources to avoid affecting the rights of others. Finally,let the public to understand the importance of the EMS resources by education.

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Lelo, de Larrea Andrade Enrique. "Topics in Simulation: Random Graphs and Emergency Medical Services." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-xf7v-8z92.

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Simulation is a powerful technique to study complex problems and systems. This thesis explores two different problems. Part 1 (Chapters 2 and 3) focuses on the theory and practice of the problem of simulating graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. Part 2 (Chapter 4) focuses on how simulation can be useful to assess policy changes in emergency medical services (EMS) systems. In particular, and partially motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we build a simulation model based on New York City’s EMS system and use it to assess a change in its hospital transport policy. In Chapter 2, we study the problem of sampling uniformly from discrete or continuous product sets subject to linear constraints. This family of problems includes sampling weighted bipartite, directed, and undirected graphs with given degree sequences. We analyze two candidate distributions for sampling from the target set. The first one maximizes entropy subject to satisfying the constraints in expectation. The second one is the distribution from an exponential family that maximizes the minimum probability over the target set. Our main result gives a condition under which the maximum entropy and the max-min distributions coincide. For the discrete case, we also develop a sequential procedure that updates the maximum entropy distribution after some components have been sampled. This procedure sacrifices the uniformity of the samples in exchange for always sampling a valid point in the target set. We show that all points in the target set are sampled with positive probability, and we find a lower bound for that probability. To address the loss of uniformity, we use importance sampling weights. The quality of these weights is affected by the order in which the components are simulated. We propose an adaptive rule for this order to reduce the skewness of the weights of the sequential algorithm. We also present a monotonicity property of the max-min probability. In Chapter 3, we leverage the general results obtained in the previous chapter and apply them to the particular case of simulating bipartite or directed graphs with given degree sequences. This problem is also equivalent to the one of sampling 0–1 matrices with fixed row and column sums. In particular, the structure of the graph problem allows for a simple iterative algorithm to find the maximum entropy distribution. The sequential algorithm described previously also simplifies in this setting, and we use it in an example of an inter-bank network. In additional numerical examples, we confirm that the adaptive rule, proposed in the previous chapter, does improve the importance sampling weights of the sequential algorithm. Finally, in Chapter 4, we build and test an emergency medical services (EMS) simulation model, tailored for New York City’s EMS system. In most EMS systems, patients are transported by ambulance to the closest most appropriate hospital. However, in extreme cases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this policy may lead to hospital overloading, which can have detrimental effects on patients. To address this concern, we propose an optimization-based, data-driven hospital load balancing approach. The approach finds a trade-off between short transport times for patients that are not high acuity while avoiding hospital overloading. To test the new rule, we run the simulation model and use historical EMS incident data from the worst weeks of the pandemic as a model input. Our simulation indicates that 911 patient load balancing is beneficial to hospital occupancy rates and is a reasonable rule for non-critical 911 patient transports. The load balancing rule has been recently implemented in New York City’s EMS system. This work is part of a broader collaboration between Columbia University and New York City’s Fire Department.

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Books on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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DC Fire & EMS Museum, ed. Fires to remember: A pictorial history of the Washington D.C. Fire & EMS Department. Evansville. Ind: M.T. Pub. Co., 2010.

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Fleming, Robert S. Effective fire and Emergency Services Administration. Tulsa, Okla: PenWell Corp., 2009.

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Fleming, Robert S. Effective fire and Emergency Services Administration. Tulsa, Okla: PenWell Corp., 2009.

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Administration, United States Fire. Funding alternatives for emergency medical and fire services. Emmitsburg, Maryland: U.S. Fire Administration, 2012.

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Varone, J. Curtis. Legal considerations for fire and emergency services. 2nd ed. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2012.

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Woolf, Tanya. Working in police & emergency services. Sheffield: COIC, 2001.

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Legal considerations for fire and emergency services. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2007.

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Commission on Fire Accreditation International. Fire & emergency service self-assessment manual. 8th ed. Chantilly, Va: Center for Public Safety Excellence, Inc., 2009.

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Bilanin, Jeanne E. An evaluation of fire and emergency medical services in Charles County, Maryland. College Park, MD: Institute for Governmental Service, University of Maryland System, 1993.

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Effective fire and EMS administration. Tulsa, Okla: PenWell Corp., 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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Pokorný, J., P. Getífk, and J. Škach. "Emergency Medical Services: Rescue Potential for Mass Casualties in Urban Fire Disasters." In The Management of Burns and Fire Disasters: Perspectives 2000, 109–13. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0361-6_21.

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Hoogmartens, Olivier, Michiel Stiers, Koen Bronselaer, and Marc Sabbe. "The emergency medical system." In The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care, edited by Marco Tubaro, Pascal Vranckx, Eric Bonnefoy-Cudraz, Susanna Price, and Christiaan Vrints, 65–75. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198849346.003.0008.

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The mission of the emergency medical services is to promote and support a system that provides timely, professional and state-of-the art emergency medical care, including ambulance services, to anyone who is victim of a sudden injury or illness, at any time and any location. A medical emergency has five different phases, namely: population awareness and behaviour, occurrence of the problem and its detection, alarming of trained responders and help rendered by bystanders and trained pre-hospital providers, transport to the nearest or most appropriate hospital, and, if necessary, admission or transfer to a tertiary care centre which provides a high degree of subspecialty expertise. In order to meet these goals, emergency medical services must work aligned with local, state officials; with fire and rescue departments; with other ambulance providers, hospitals, and other agencies to foster a high performance network. The term emergency medical service evolved to reflect a change from a straightforward system of ambulances providing nothing but transportation, to a complex network in which high-quality medical care is given from the moment the call is received, on-scene with the patient and during transportation. Medical supervision and/or participation of emergency medicine physicians (EP) in the emergency medical service systems contributes to the quality of medical care. This emergency medical services network must be capable to respond instantly and to maintain efficacy around the clock, with well-trained, well-equipped personnel linked through a strong communication system. Research plays a pivotal role in defining necessary resources and in continuously improving the delivery of high-quality care. This chapter gives an overview of the different aspects of emergency medical services and calls for high quality research in pre-hospital emergency care in a true partnership between cardiologists and emergency physicians.

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Gardett, Isabel, Edward Trefts, Christopher Olola, and Greg Scott. "Unique Job Roles and Mental Health Risk Factors Among Emergency Dispatchers." In Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies, 49–62. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9803-9.ch004.

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Emergency medical, fire, and police dispatchers are often called the first, first responders. Working in emergency communication centers, they are the first point of contact with medical, fire, and law enforcement resources and the first point of access to public health and public safety systems for millions of callers each year. Emergency dispatchers face unique risks to their mental health, and the roles and responsibilities specific to their work produce stressors not synonymous with those encountered by other first responders and emergency workers. Yet relatively little research has been done to understand the specific mental health concerns of this vital and often overlooked segment of the emergency services profession. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the job-specific tasks and work characteristics that make the emergency dispatcher's job qualitatively different from the jobs of other emergency workers and first responders, then discuss the unique mental health risks associated with their work.

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Carter, Tim, Sally Bell, Mike Doig, Robbert Hermanns, and Phil Bryson. "Seafaring, offshore energy, and diving." In Fitness for Work, 340–67. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198808657.003.0016.

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Seafaring, work in the offshore energy sector, and commercial diving share a number of common features that are relevant to the assessment of fitness to work. Physically and mentally demanding tasks, many of which are considered safety critical, are performed, often in an unforgiving environment. Workplaces are commonly remote from onshore health and emergency services, necessitating the provision of emergency medical and incident (including fire) response on site. Employees must be trained and physically and mentally capable of performing these rare but demanding roles. The risks from a serious injury or illness are raised by the lack of full medical care facilities.

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Noble, Keith T., Connie M. White, and Murray Turoff. "Emergency Management Information System Support Rectifying First Responder Role Abandonment During Extreme Events." In Police Science, 221–35. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7672-3.ch011.

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Role abandonment once was considered unlikely by research scientists; however emergency management officials have experienced catastrophic events that counter prior assumptions. Event types such as deluges and pandemics surface as scenarios supporting one set of examples. The authors explore a different angle, focusing on individual practitioners including: (1) fire, (2) police and (3) emergency medical services. Surveys were taken by the various practitioner group types. Results suggested that there may be role abandonment issues, differing from one practitioner type to another, each with unique reasons given the event type. Although communities and individual emergency officials may never encounter such situations, it's imperative that this event type be taken into account during the design and implementation of disaster management systems. Systems developed should be designed to support and modify needs given the size and magnitude of the event, be it a routine emergency, a larger disaster or a 'once in a lifetime' catastrophic event. In this case, the authors focus on human resources. It is for this reason that the authors believe that algorithms be identified, developed and implemented so that such information be accessible to emergency officials, should this rare situation arise.

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Conference papers on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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Hasselqvist-Axe, I., P. Nordberg, J. Herlitz, L. Svensson, M. Jonsson, J. Lindqvist, M. Ringh, et al. "7 Dispatch of fire-fighters and police officers in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide prospective cohort trial." In Meeting abstracts from the second European Emergency Medical Services Congress (EMS2017). British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-emsabstracts.7.

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Reports on the topic "Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept"

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Report on audit of fire and emergency medical services cost sharing between the Department of Energy and Los Alamos County. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/123196.

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