The resilience of the Spanish health system against the COVID-19 pandemic

H Legido-Quigley, JT Mateos-García… - … lancet public health, 2020 - thelancet.com
… The coronavirus pandemic puts societies to the test: it is a test of political leadership, of
national health systems, of social care services, of solidarity, of the social contract—a test of our …

Emergency medical services calls during Italy's COVID-19 lockdown

F Valent, S Licata - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2020 - annemergmed.com
… , we analyzed calls to the emergency medical services (EMS) call … , corresponded to Italy’s
COVID-19 lockdown area. Despite the … (112 or 118) could be used for advice on COVID-19. …

Rapid response to COVID-19: health informatics support for outbreak management in an academic health system

JJ Reeves, HM Hollandsworth… - … American Medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Our health system has confirmed prior and current cases of COVID-19. An Incident Command
… We detail the specific informatics tools we built to support the health system’s efforts to …

… experience of the Dutch helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: jeopardy on the prehospital care system?

QGH Rikken, S Mikdad, MTC Mota… - … Trauma and Emergency …, 2021 - Springer
… Dispatch-, operational-, patient-, injury-, and on-site treatment characteristics were extracted
for analysis. In addition, the rate of COVID-19 positively tested HEMS personnel and the …

The privatization of the Italian National Health System and its impact on health emergency preparedness and response: the COVID-19 case

ML Buzelli, T Boyce - … Journal of Health Services, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… -19). The purpose of this article is to show how the privatization of the … COVID-19 pandemic.
The available capacity and resources in the public and private emergency services systems

Impact of temporary closures of emergency departments during the COVID-19 outbreak on clinical outcomes for emergency patients in a metropolitan area

DE Lee, YS Ro, HW Ryoo, S Moon - … journal of emergency medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
… asymptomatic patients with communicable diseases access healthcare through the emergency
care system. Therefore, preparing EMS systems in such a way that they can sufficiently …

Management of COVID-19-related challenges faced by EMS personnel: a qualitative study

F Mohammadi, B Tehranineshat, M Bijani… - … emergency medicine, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 crisis, emergency medical services personnel should be provided with a
comprehensive and systematic protocol to provide pre-hospital care … , emergency medical services

Cardiovascular considerations for patients, health care workers, and health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic

E Driggin, MV Madhavan, B Bikdeli, T Chuich… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
… CV effects and clinicians delivering CV care are at risk of … the CV impact of COVID-19, its
potential consequences in … and without COVID-19), health care workers, and health systems, as …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction in emergency department presentations in a regional health system during the Covid-19 pandemic

E Mann, D Swedien, J Hansen, S Peterson… - … Emergency Medicine, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… patient volumes, demographics and clinical conditions from March 16th through May 15,
2020 to corresponding dates in 2019 for five regionally dispersed EDs in our health system. …

Pre-hospital emergency medical services utilization amid COVID-19 in 2020: descriptive study based on routinely collected dispatch data in Bavaria, Germany

K Hegenberg, A Althammer, C Gehring, S Prueckner… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
… While there were concerns of an overwhelmed emergency medical services system, the
opposite was the case in Bavaria in 2020. Compared to the two previous years, utilization …