Golden time: Analysis of the response time of the Mobile Urgency Care Service (Samu)

Abstract

Background and Objectives: To analyze the golden time developed by the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) in Floriano, Piauí, Brazil. There are few productions that primarily emphasize the service’s response time (golden hour), crucial for students and professionals in the field, whose knowledge on the issue can lead to saving lives. Methods: This is a descriptive, documentary, and quantitative study that analyzed emergency care records for the year 2018. It is based on the survey of the variables of the golden time stages, their nature, and the duration of events, analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. This study met all ethical principles based on the approval opinion of the ethics committee (No. 96443518.4.0000.5660). Results: The most frequent golden time performed by Samu was 15 to 30 minutes, in 58.5% of the cases. Adult clinical urgencies and emergencies were the most common types of events (35.50%). Conclusion: The most frequent service provided by Floriano’s Samu was clinical urgencies and emergencies in adults, with a response time of 15 to 30 minutes.

Accident detection algorithm using features associated with risk factors and acceleration data from stunt performers

“…Following the slip-fall type, the most frequent type of fall is the sudden fall while standing in a place, such as that caused by a heart attack. The risk depends on how quickly rescue occurs within the golden hour, which is the time when a person can be rescued to save his or her life, in dangerous situations such as clinical urgencies and emergencies [22,23]; thus, a fast response is required. A detailed analysis of features to distinguish sudden fall while standing shows that the body slowly falls while maintaining a vertical direction with the floor and there is considerably less impact from the floor landing because F I G U R E 1 Summary of classification of accident types according to accident risk factors and order a person falls slowly at the waist-level height compared with other falls.…”