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Characteristics of the intervention of emergency medical teams in the southern part of poland in 12-month observation
* 1 , 2 , 3, 4 , 5
1  Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, University of Technology, Academia of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
2  Department of Histology, Cytophysiology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, University of Technology, Academy of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
3  Department of Histology, Cytophysiology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, Academy of Silesia, 40-555 Katowice, Poland
4  Department of Neurosurgery, 5th Military Clinical Hospital with the SP ZOZ Polyclinic in Krakow, 30-901 Krakow, Poland
5  FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ACADEMY OF SILESIA IN KATOWICE, KATOWICE, POLAND
Academic Editor: Humbert G. Díaz

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to characterize the general characteristics of the completed interventions by the Voivodeship Rescue Service in Katowice in the period between 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2018. Particular attention was paid to the type of intervention taken by the EMT as well as the reasons for the calling it based on the international qualification of ICD-10 illnesses. Analysis of the characteristics of the trips was done based on the information contained in the dispatch order cards and medical emergency services. cards. In the statistical analysis the Chi-Square (p<0.05) test was utilized. The total number of interventions was 211,548 cases. It is also worth observing, that the general number of interventions out of town amounted to 20,344 interventions, whereas, in town, there were 191,204 interventions. It can be observed that the most common decision made by the Emergency Medical Team was the decision to directly transported and received by the emergency department (126,553 cases; p<0.05). The definite most common reason for symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (ICD-10 code : R; p<0.05). The largest number of interventions completed by the Voivodeship Rescue Service in Katowice in 2018 was due to injuries and poisonings, symptoms, diseases features and incorrect results of diagnostic tests, and in third place were cardiovascular diseases.

Keywords: Silesian Voivodeship, emergency medicine, medical rescue, Emergency Medical Team
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