Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers

Emergency Stroke Calls: Obtaining Rapid Telephone Triage (ESCORTT) – a programme of research to facilitate recognition of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers

Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation. One of the ways that access to services can be facilitated is through emergency medical service (EMS) d...

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Veröffentlicht in:Programme grants for applied research 2014-02, Vol.2 (1), p.1-124
Hauptverfasser: Watkins, Caroline L, Jones, Stephanie P, Leathley, Michael J, Ford, Gary A, Quinn, Tom, McAdam, Joanna J, Gibson, Josephine ME, Mackway-Jones, Kevin C, Durham, Stuart, Britt, David, Morris, Sara, O’Donnell, Mark, Emsley, Hedley CA, Punekar, Shuja, Sharma, Anil, Sutton, Chris J
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Sprache:eng
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dispatch diagnosis
education
emergency medical dispatcher
emergency medical services
stroke
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Zusammenfassung:Background: Rapid access to emergency stroke care can reduce death and disability by enabling immediate provision of interventions such as thrombolysis, physiological monitoring and stabilisation. One of the ways that access to services can be facilitated is through emergency medical service (EMS) dispatchers. The sensitivity of EMS dispatchers for identifying stroke is
ISSN:2050-4322
2050-4330
DOI:10.3310/pgfar02010