A retrospetive evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting

To determine whether the establishment of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal flying squad resulted in improved performance within the setting of a major metropolitan area. The Cape Town metropolitan service of the Emergency Medical Services was selected for a retrospective review of the transit times for the newly implemented Flying Squad programme. Data were imported from the Computer Aided Dispatch programme. Dispatch, Response, Mean Transit and Total Pre-hospital times, relating to the obstetric and neonatal incidents was analysed for 2005 and 2008.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Emergency Medicine

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• De Vries, Shaheem

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wallis, Lee

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11848

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11848