Comparison of emergency medical services systems in the pan‐Asian resuscitation outcomes study countries: Report from a literature review and survey

Abstract

We found variation in the EMS systems across the eight Asia-Pacific countries/regions studied. The findings will inform the construction of a multinational Asia-Pacific research network for future comparative studies and could serve as a model for international research networks.

Challenges of communication system during emergency disaster response in Malaysia: A review

“…The number may be centralized but the uniformity of emergency medical services communication system between different agencies is still inadequate. Each distinct agency relies on their own communication system of call-receiving and dispatching of response teams [29]. The incoordination leads to inappropriate transfer, overlapping in services and lapse of response.…”

Factors affecting the ambulance response times of trauma incidents in Singapore

“…To provide a context on the healthcare system which the Singapore's EMS system operates in, some results comparing the state of development and healthcare resources (public expenditure in healthcare, hospital and ambulance resources per capita) across various cities derived from earlier studies are summarized in Table 1 (Shin et al, 2012;Ong et al, 2013;Shin et al, 2012;Austin et al, 2014).…”

Barriers to dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Singapore

“…As part of the Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcome Study Phase II (PAROS-II), Singapore implemented a DA-CPR package in 2012, 10 which included a DA-CPR protocol, dispatcher training, systematic quality improvement (QI) through review of all dispatch calls and a public education campaign around DA-CPR.…”