Open AccessEmergency Medical Services (EMS) Calls During COVID-19: Early Lessons Learned for Systems Planning (A Narrative Review)
Author(s) -
Alaa Al Amiry,
Brian Maguire
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
open access emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1179-1500
DOI - 10.2147/oaem.s324568
Subject(s) - covid-19 , emergency medical services , bottleneck , pandemic , medical emergency , medicine , business , operations management , economics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Over the course of the COVID-19 progress, reports from many locations around the world indicated major increases in EMS call volume, which imposed great pressure on EMS dispatch centers (EMSDC) globally. No studies yet have been done to examine this phenomenon.