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Does the use of the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System affect cardiac arrest detection?

Heward A, Damiani M, Hartley-Sharpe C.

Emerg Med J. 2004 Jan;21(1):115-8.PMID: 14734398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Emergency (999) calls to the ambulance service that do not result in the patient being transported to hospital: an epidemiological study.

Marks PJ, Daniel TD, Afolabi O, Spiers G, Nguyen-Van-Tam JS.

Emerg Med J. 2002 Sep;19(5):449-52.PMID: 12205005 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Sensitivity and specificity of the medical priority dispatch system in detecting cardiac arrest emergency calls in Melbourne.

Flynn J, Archer F, Morgans A.

Prehosp Disaster Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;21(2):72-6.PMID: 16770995 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Ability of the medical priority dispatch system protocol to predict the acuity of "unknown problem" dispatch response levels.

Clawson J, Olola C, Heward A, Patterson B, Scott G.

Prehosp Emerg Care. 2008 Jul-Sep;12(3):290-6.PMID: 18584494 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Cardiac arrest predictability in seizure patients based on emergency medical dispatcher identification of previous seizure or epilepsy history.

Clawson J, Olola C, Heward A, Patterson B.

Resuscitation. 2007 Nov;75(2):298-304. Epub 2007 Jul 5.PMID: 17618728 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Importance of the first link: description and recognition of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in an emergency call.

Berdowski J, Beekhuis F, Zwinderman AH, Tijssen JG, Koster RW.

Circulation. 2009 Apr 21;119(15):2096-102. Epub 2009 Apr 6.PMID: 19349324 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Does telephone triage of emergency (999) calls using Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch (AMPDS) with Department of Health (DH) call prioritisation effectively identify patients with an acute coronary syndrome? An audit of 42,657 emergency calls to Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Deakin CD, Sherwood DM, Smith A, Cassidy M.

Emerg Med J. 2006 Mar;23(3):232-5.PMID: 16498168 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Effect of protocol compliance to cardiac arrest identification by emergency medical dispatchers.

Nurmi J, Pettilä V, Biber B, Kuisma M, Komulainen R, Castrén M.

Resuscitation. 2006 Sep;70(3):463-9. Epub 2006 Jul 25.PMID: 16870317 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The obstacles to maximising the impact of public access defibrillation: an assessment of the dispatch mechanism for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Cairns KJ, Hamilton AJ, Marshall AH, Moore MJ, Adgey AA, Kee F.

Heart. 2008 Mar;94(3):349-53. Epub 2007 May 31.PMID: 17540690 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

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

Clawson J, Olola C, Heward A, Patterson B, Scott G.

Prehosp Disaster Med. 2008 Sep-Oct;23(5):412-9.PMID: 19189610 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Safety of telephone consultation for "non-serious" emergency ambulance service patients.

Dale J, Williams S, Foster T, Higgins J, Snooks H, Crouch R, Hartley-Sharpe C, Glucksman E, George S.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 Oct;13(5):363-73.PMID: 15465940 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Why are people without medical needs transported by ambulance? A study of indications for pre-hospital care.

Hjälte L, Suserud BO, Herlitz J, Karlberg I.

Eur J Emerg Med. 2007 Jun;14(3):151-6.PMID: 17473609 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Comparison of the medical priority dispatch system to an out-of-hospital patient acuity score.

Feldman MJ, Verbeek PR, Lyons DG, Chad SJ, Craig AM, Schwartz B.

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Is ambulance telephone triage using advanced medical priority dispatch protocols able to identify patients with acute stroke correctly?

Deakin CD, Alasaad M, King P, Thompson F.

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Identification of cardiac arrest by emergency dispatchers.

Eisenberg MS, Carter W, Hallstrom A, Cummins R, Litwin P, Hearne T.

Am J Emerg Med. 1986 Jul;4(4):299-301.PMID: 3718618 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

[How is out-of-hospital cardiac arrest dispatched?]

Mathiesen OP, Nielsen SL, Rasmussen LS.

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The Medical Priority Dispatch System's ability to predict cardiac arrest outcomes and high acuity pre-hospital alerts in chest pain patients presenting to 9-9-9.

Clawson J, Olola C, Heward A, Patterson B, Scott G.

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Errors of omission in the treatment of prehospital chest pain patients.

Rittenberger JC, Beck PW, Paris PM.

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Outcome of patients identified as dead (beyond resuscitation) at the point of the emergency call.

Harvey L, Woollard M.

Emerg Med J. 2004 May;21(3):367-9.PMID: 15107386 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Effect of a Medical Priority Dispatch System key question addition in the seizure/convulsion/fitting protocol to improve recognition of ineffective (agonal) breathing.

Clawson J, Olola C, Scott G, Heward A, Patterson B.

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