Professional firefighter and trained volunteer first‐responding units in emergency medical service

Tamminen, Joonas; Hoppu, Sanna; Kämäräinen, Antti

doi:10.1111/aas.13224

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“…45 ing and feedback on time-related CPR performance, including realistic scenario training [47][48][49][50] which may further improve skills and preparedness among first-responders. 48,50 Tamminen (2019) found differences in performance in relation to whether first-responders were professional firefighters or volunteers, 51 and it cannot be ruled out that there are within-group differences in our study, i.e., between full-time and part-time firefighters.…”

Section: Sub-analyses Of Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 70%

Firefighters as first-responders in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – A retrospective study of a time-gain selective dispatch system in the Skåne Region, Sweden

Andréll

Dankiewicz²,

Todorova³

et al. 2022

Resuscitation

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Section: Sub-analyses Of Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 70%

Firefighters as first-responders in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – A retrospective study of a time-gain selective dispatch system in the Skåne Region, Sweden

Andréll

Dankiewicz²,

Todorova³

et al. 2022

Resuscitation

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“…We chose our participants from among firefighters due to their high-risk professional properties, 35 , 36 such as rescuing individuals during disaster 37 and providing emergency medical service. 38 The inclusion criteria were as follows: 18 years old or older, right-handed, no history of mental or psychiatric illness, visual acuity or corrected visual acuity of 1.0 or above, normal hearing, willingness to participate in the study, and signing the informed consent form. The exclusion criteria were participating in another experimental study within the past 3 months and 3D motion sickness that made the individual unable to cooperate with the experiment.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Validity of Virtual Courage for Trainees in High-Risk Occupations

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Jiang³

et al. 2022

PRBM

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Background Employees in high-risk occupations are exposed to tremendous work stress that hinders organizational effectiveness and personal mental health. Based on positive psychology, courage can be considered a protective factor that buffers the adverse effect of high-risk surroundings on employees. However, little is known about the way courage is simulated or evaluated in response to safety concerns. Virtual reality (VR) is an accessible tool for courage simulation due to its immersive qualities, presence and interactive features and may provide a promising pathway to achieve a scientific, accurate and ecologically valid evaluation of high-risk employees. Methods The sample consisted of 51 high-risk employees who were recruited voluntarily. Before and after experiencing the VR courage scenarios, the participants completed the VR features questionnaire, the Physical Courage at Work Scale (PCWS), the Courage Measure (CM), and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS). During the process of watching the VR courage scenarios, the participants’ heart rate and skin conductance at resting-state baseline and during virtual courage scenarios were recorded through HTC VIVE Pro Eye and BioGraph Infiniti 8. Results The results support the hypothesis and reveal that the interaction, immersion and presence scores of the scenarios were all significantly higher than the median 4 points. The score for the CM in the posttest was significantly higher than that in the pretest. The scared and afraid scores for the posttest were significantly higher than those for the pretest. The heart rate and skin conductance of each scenario showed an increase compared with the baseline. The Pearson’s correlation between physiological indicators and the score of the PCWS was 0.28~0.54. Conclusion This study developed virtual courage for high-risk occupations based on well-established theory and VR technology. Experimental data revealed that the paradigm conformed to the requirements of VR features and was able to activate fear and evoke the quality of courage. Thus, the virtual courage paradigms have good validity in simulating scenarios for high-risk employees, which might accelerate organizational effectiveness while buffering working stress.

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“…( 2019 ), Tamminen et al. ( 2019 ) and Svensson et al. ( 2020 ) Shuster and Keller ( 1993 ), White et al.…”

Section: Pre-ems Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…( 2013 ); First AED App; HeartRunner Sweden AB; TrygFonden Hjertestarter Finland AEDs First responders, Volunteers FirstAED App Harve and Silfvast ( 2004 ) and Tamminen et al. ( 2019 ); First AED App; FirstAED Germany AEDs First responders, Volunteers Meine-Stadt-Rettet, Mobile Retter, FirstAED App, Defikataster, iHelp, Mobile Lebensretter, corhelper, Land-Rettung, KATRETTER, MV SCHOCKT Gross et al. ( 2019 ), Lichtenhahn et al.…”

Section: Pre-ems Services In Different Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

Matinrad

Reuter-Oppermann

2021

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff shortage–creating extra challenges and constraints, especially during crisis times such as the COVID-19 pandemic–as well as long distances to sparsely populated areas resulting in longer response times. To overcome these issues and potentially reduce consequences of daily (medical) emergencies, several countries, such as Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands, have started initiatives using new types of human resources as well as equipment, which have not been part of the existing emergency systems before. These resources are employed in response to medical emergency cases if they can arrive earlier than emergency medical services (EMS). A good number of studies have investigated the use of these new types of resources in EMS systems, from medical, technical, and logistical perspectives as their study domains. Several review papers in the literature exist that focus on one or several of these new types of resources. However, to the best of our knowledge, no review paper that comprehensively considers all new types of resources in emergency medical response systems exists. We try to fill this gap by presenting a broad literature review of the studies focused on the different new types of resources, which are used prior to the arrival of EMS. Our objective is to present an application-based and methodological overview of these papers, to provide insights to this important field and to bring it to the attention of researchers as well as emergency managers and administrators.

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Professional firefighter and trained volunteer first‐responding units in emergency medical service

Abstract: First-responding units provided initial treatment or assistance to ambulance personnel in approximately half of the missions. Implementation of professional- and layperson-staffed first-responding units in emergency medical service system seems to be feasible.

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Firefighters as first-responders in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – A retrospective study of a time-gain selective dispatch system in the Skåne Region, Sweden

Firefighters as first-responders in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – A retrospective study of a time-gain selective dispatch system in the Skåne Region, Sweden

The Validity of Virtual Courage for Trainees in High-Risk Occupations

A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

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