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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Call Taker"”.
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‘The rates of pre-hospital over-triage and the reasons behind them in a Cape Town setting'
… Inappropriate dispatch of urgent ambulances by call centre personnel causes an unnecessary drain on existing resources. How often these urgent dispatches are inappropriate has not been evaluated in any lower middle income countries, nor have factors been assessed that contribute to these …
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A manikin-based simulation study of a dispatch operator directed CPR algorithm within the Western Cape setting and the self- reported comfort around its execution
… CPR performed by laypersons, when directed by a call-taker using the Western Cape Provincial EMS Guidecards Algorithm, can be suboptimal in terms of compression rate, depth, full chest recoil and baring of the chest. There is an urgent need to find more effective ways, in the Western Cape EMS, to …
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Decision Making and Reform Within the United States Criminal Justice System
… of actors in the criminal justice system: 911 call-takes, prosecutors, and law enforcement. As most citizen-officer interactions arise from 911 calls for service, the first chapter of this dissertation is a study on the “priming” effect 911-call-takers have on officer decision to arrest and use …
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An analysis of the Afrikaans telephonic descriptors of cardiac arrest in a Western Cape Emergency Control centre
… descriptors (words and phrases) of OHCA used by callers speaking Afrikaans when contacting the emergency dispatch centre of the Western Cape Provincial Emergency Medical Services (WC-EMS). Methodology: Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) data with a corresponding “patient unresponsive” incident type …
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An analysis of the isiXhosa telephonic descriptors of cardiac arrest (ca) in a Western Cape emergency control centre
… personnel, which rely on the descriptors that callers provide. Varying educational levels and languages make identifying such patients in the Western Cape (WC), South Africa (SA), challenging. This study aims to identify key isiXhosa speaking descriptors used telephonically in the Western Cape …