Responding to a Cardiac Arrest: Keeping Paramedics Safe during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

<jats:p>This commentary aims to provide an overview of the current state and territory ambulance service cardiac arrest management recommendations to paramedics during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight relevant risks to personnel.</jats:p>

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Calls During COVID-19: Early Lessons Learned for Systems Planning (A Narrative Review)

“…• EMS calls during COVID-19, 7,8,10-19 • Reduced EMS operator response time, 7 • Ambulance response delays, 14,20,21 • Collateral mortality and morbidity among non-COVID-19 cases, 14,17,19,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]31 and • Total ambulance call time. 17,29,[33][34][35]…”

“…The new regulations force the donning of appropriate PPE by EMS personnel in preparing for EMS calls, which is considered a time-consuming procedure that impacts the RT of ambulances. [33][34][35] Therefore, responding to highacuity trauma patients can be delayed by suiting up with PPE. Paradoxically, a scarcity of PPE and appropriate face masks is found to be a reason in some areas of the world to cause ambulance delays.…”

Çalışanların Koronavirüs Kaygı Düzeylerinin İşte Üretkenliğe Etkisinde Presenteizmin Aracılık Rolü

“…There are very few studies in the literature on the anxiety caused by COVID-19 and its effects on working life, such as its effect on productivity and efficiency. It is seen that the studies conducted are generally specific to the health sector (Hoşgör, Ülker Dörttepe and Sağcan, 2020;Lerner, Newgard and Mann, 2020;Whitfield, MacQuarrie and Boyle, 2020). However, no studies have been found in the literature in which the variables studied in this study are considered together.…”

“…Literatürde COVID-19'un neden olduğu kaygı ve bunun üretkenliğe ve verimliliğe etkisi gibi çalışma yaşamına etkileri üzerine yapılmış çok az sayıda çalışma bulunmaktadır. Yapılan çalışmaların ise genellikle sağlık sektörü özelinde olduğu görülmektedir (Hoşgör, Ülker Dörttepe ve Sağcan, 2020;Lerner, Newgard ve Mann, 2020;Whitfield, MacQuarrie ve Boyle, 2020). Bununla birlikte literatürde, bu çalışmada incelenen değişkenlerin bir arada ele alındığı herhangi bir çalışmaya rastlanmamıştır.…”

Aci̇l Sağlik Hi̇zmetleri̇ Çalişanlarinda Covi̇d-19 Anksi̇yetesi̇ Ve Mesleki̇ Performans İli̇şki̇si̇ni̇n Tanimlayici Deği̇şkenler Açisindan İncelenmesi̇

“…They also provide supportive and continuous health services in emergencies such as natural disasters and epidemics. If emergency health care personnel are to provide timely and effective health service to individuals in need of health care, it is necessary to meet their social, psychological, financial and moral needs and to provide them with support (Whitfield et al, 2020). It is obvious that they need such support more in extraordinary situations such as pandemics and disasters.…”