Burnout prevalence among healthcare workers has skyrocketed worldwide in the recent years. Machine learning can help to act upstream and therefore prevent psychopathologies by predicting compromised wellness among EMS frontliners.
It is expected that some Protocols, such as Breathing Problems, represent an overall higher acuity than others, such as Sick Person.
Emergency Medical Telecommunicator remains a fast-changing role in pre-hospital medicine. Some research has been carried out that examines call-taking, dispatch protocols, and stress levels.
As an EMD Instructor that qualified in 2003 on MPDS Version 10.4, there have been a significant amount of changes in the last two decades. The EMD course is a 24 hour instructor led course and the length of the course has not changed from the first iteration and formalised curriculum developed for Version 11.
First responders, arriving first at emergency sites and caring for trauma victims, offer physical and psychological aid.
Diabetes is one of the most widespread public health problems in the modern world and can have major health and financial consequences on society.
Occupational Identity is a term used to describe how a person sees themself as a worker. Researchers have studied how one’s identity at work affects not only one’s occupational success, but their attitudes, experiences, and emotions both inside and outside of the workplace. Our featured research article in this issue, written by Violet (Lisa) Rymshaw, PsyD, provides valuable insights on occupational identity among emergency dispatchers—a profession that is sometimes given short shrift within the realm of emergency services occupations.
Face, Arm, Speech, Time (FAST) public awareness campaigns improve stroke recognition in the general population. Whether this translates into improved emergency medical services (EMS) activation remains unclear. We assessed the effect of five consecutive FAST campaigns on EMS calls for suspected strokes in Quebec, Canada.
Kerri Hatt, editor-in-chief of EMS 1, and Anthony Minge, Senior Partner with Fitch & Associates, discuss the 2021 EMS Trend Report, including what insights and markers have changed since the 2020 report and which ones haven't.
There are many recent articles published in scientific literature on the topic of work-related stress. However, these studies focus on the effects of stress on the workers and not on the impact that stress could have on their work performancemore specifically on the calltaker’s (emergency dispatcher (ED)) performance and consequently on the whole Emergency Medical Service (EMS).