Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33245381›Full record

ReviewDer Anaesthesist2021

[COVID-19 Stress test for ensuring emergency healthcare: strategy and response of emergency medical services in Berlin].

Janosch Dahmen, Linnart Bäker, Florian Breuer, Karsten Homrighausen, Christopher Pommerenke, Jan-Karl Stiepak, Stefan Poloczek

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Review in Der Anaesthesist, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. [Changes and developments in emergency medical services: key challenges for rescue management].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Janosch DahmenBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland. janosch.dahmen@uni-wh.de.
Linnart BäkerBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Florian BreuerBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Karsten HomrighausenBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Christopher PommerenkeBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Jan-Karl StiepakBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Stefan PoloczekBerliner Feuerwehr, Berlin, Deutschland.
Witten/Herdecke University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented severe test for emergency medicine in Germany. In addition to in-hospital emergency medicine, prehospital emergency medicine has the decisive task of fully guaranteeing emergency medical healthcare. In this article the Berlin Fire Brigade shows new ways for emergency medical services to fulfil these increased responsibilities during the pandemic in prehospital emergency medicine in the State of Berlin.

methodsA systematic presentation of the challenges and conceptional responses of preclinical emergency medicine to the COVID-19 pandemic was carried out using the example of the emergency medical services in the State of Berlin.

resultsThe Berlin Fire Brigade has a dispatch center that coordinates all requests for assistance in the State of Berlin over the emergency telephone number 112. On average a total of 2565 emergency calls are received every 24 h, from which 1271 missions are generated. During the pandemic there was a striking increase in missions to patients with acute respiratory diseases (ARD). Of the missions 11% were carried out to patients with the suspicion of COVID-19. The duration of the emergency calls was extended on average by 1:36 min due to the additional questions in the pandemic protocol and the duration of the mission by an average of 17 min with the additional alarm keyword acute respiratory disease (ARD).

conclusionThe continuing pandemic reveals that tasks and responsibilities of public services in emergency rescue go far beyond the immediate medical prevention of danger to life and limb. In addition to the controller and triage functions in the integrated dispatch center of the Berlin Fire Brigade (112), the emergency and healthcare measures could be ensured. This was accomplished by comprehensive measures for situation control, situation reports and mastering situations despite the lack of alternative outpatient care options, especially in the areas of general practitioner, public health care and medical specialist practices.

Indexed as

BerlinCOVID-19Emergency Medical ServicesEmergency RespondersEmergency Service, HospitalExercise TestFirefightersHumansPandemicsRespiratory Distress SyndromeTriageBerlin Fire BrigadeCoronaEmergency medical servicesPandemicSARS-CoV‑2

Identifiers

PMID33245381
PMCPMC7692437
OpenAlexW3109463967

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