STUDY ABOUT HOW EMOTIONAL PERCEPTION OF THE TYPE OF CALL AFFECTS EMERGENCY PERSONNEL RESPONSE
Abstract:
Introduction: The work of Romanian Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and
Extrication known as SMURD teams is highly dependent on the gravity of a call: the more critical a
patient, the shorter the time of reaction is. Emergency teams develop an adapted response pattern
dependent on the type of the call that jeopardize the quality of pre-hospital action. Materials and
methods: Statistical analysis of SMURD national database on a period of 3 years out of which the
average ambulance time of response was calculated for different pathologies, time intervals and type
of ambulances. Results: Rescue teams speed their way to an emergency such as road accidents trauma
but have a slower response for calls like unconsciousness and respiratory failure. When a cardiac
arrest (dispatched as “possible cardiac arrest”) is called, the time response improves by 15%.
Conclusions: Emergency Medical Service (EMS) response pattern is built upon experience and
encountered dramatic situations and not necessarily as a result of objective medical condition.
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