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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical case with a lights and sirens ambulance response. An example is a cardiac arrest or serious traffic accident. Code 2: An acute but non-time critical response. The ambulance does not use lights and sirens to respond. An example of this response code is a broken leg. Code 3: A non-urgent routine case. These include cases ...

  3. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  4. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number works for all three emergency services. In most cases, a 9-1-1 call will be answered at a central facility, usually referred to as a Public Safety Answering Point, and operated, in most cases, by the police. The needs of the caller are identified, and the call is routed to the dispatcher for the emergency service(s) required.

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  6. Medical Priority Dispatch System - Wikipedia

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    The system also uses the determinant O which may be a referral to another service or other situation that may not actually require an ambulance response. Another sub-category code is used to further categorize the patient. The system is often used in the form of a software system called ProQA, which is also produced by Priority Dispatch Corp.

  7. List of emergency telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Police – 102; Ambulance – 103; Fire – 101; Gas leaks – 104. Thailand: 191 [63] 1669: 199: 191 will be used as the only national emergency number in the future. [64] Ambulance (Bangkok only) – 1646; Tourist police – 1155; Traffic control center (Bangkok Metro only) – 1197; Highway patrol – 1193; Mobile Phones – 112. [65 ...

  8. Public utility model - Wikipedia

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    Public Utility Model (PUM), is an emergency medical service (EMS) system. In a Public Utility Model system, the government is a "purchaser" of dispatchers, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedic providers from an EMS provider (contractor). In most cases, this is a private (for-profit) ambulance company.

  9. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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    Ambulance in the Czech Republic. Physician-led EMS is also known as the Franco-German model, "stay and play", "stay and stabilize" or "delay and treat". [38] In a physician-led system, doctors respond directly to all major emergencies requiring more than simple first aid. The physicians will attempt to treat casualties at the scene and will ...