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The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania is a multi-hospital consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is claimed to be one of the world's premiere centers of Emergency Medicine and EMS development. It currently ranks sixth for residencies in emergency medicine by reputation. [1]
The Ambulance Division of the Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS is the main arm of the EMS Bureau and consists of the City's 13 frontline medic units (staffed by two paramedics), three frontline ambulances (staffed by two EMTs). The Medic Units and Ambulances are responsible for answering calls for medical assistance within the city limits.
Accurate use of protocols establishing the priority of various cases is critical. The standard for emergency dispatcher training is becoming very high. Some emergency medical services - (EMS) dispatch agencies use "Priority" dispatching to establish the urgency of a given request for service, or ”call”. They ask the caller a series of ...
He designed a set of standardized protocols to triage patients via the telephone and thus improve the emergency response system. Protocols were first alphabetized by chief complaint that included key questions to ask the caller, pre-arrival instructions, and dispatch priorities. After many revisions, these simple cards have evolved into MPDS.
EMS providers work under the authority and indirect supervision of a medical director, or board-certified physician who oversees the policies and protocols of a particular EMS system or organization. [51] Both the medical director and the actions they undertake are often referred to as "Medical Control".
The EMS system has been neglected compared to other government services, he argued. “Police departments are not holding basket bingos, beef, beers, or fill-the-boot drives,” Zimmerman said.
As a BLS service in Pennsylvania, MERT is able to provide oxygen therapy, stabilize trauma patients, splint suspected fractures and joint injuries, utilize artificial airways, provide ventilatory support, administer certain medications (including Epinephrine) and defibrillate patients. The typical response time of MERT is less than 5 minutes.
An enterprise messaging system (EMS) or messaging system in brief [1] is a set of published enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. EMS systems promote loosely coupled architectures that allow changes in the formats of messages to have minimum impact on message subscribers.