Covid-19 and Dealing with it: Lessons Learned in a Pre-Hospital Emergency System of Yazd

Afzali, Fatemeh; Dehghan, Ahmad; Pahlavanpoor, Saeedreza; Baghbeheshti, Maryam

doi:10.18502/jder.5639

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“…In Tehran, EMS established a coronavirus monitoring committee, expanded the number of employees to properly respond to the increase in the number of patients, and initiated formal staff training to be able to adequately care for patients ( 7 , 13 ). Iran's EMS Organization as one of the agile organizations of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education and also as the first line of this system, has used all its power and capacity to provide valuable measures in the management of COVID-19 disease ( 15 ).…”

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“…In Iran, Afzali et al investigated the lessons acquired in a pre-hospital emergency system in Yazd during the COVID-19 pandemic, they concluded that organizations can use the lessons learnt from COVID-19 management to better examine their performance, methodically record and analyze concerns and challenges and deal with procedures to avoid future performance risks ( 15 ). Researchers in Canada investigated the impact of COVID-19 on emergency medical service call volumes and patient acuity and discovered that the virus may have caused actual changes in emergency medical service demand, which will be of interest to other services preparing for future pandemics or COVID-19 waves ( 16 ).…”

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Explore pre-hospital emergency challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: A quality content analysis in the Iranian context

Hadian

Jabbari

Abdollahi

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Backgroundpre-hospital emergency is a community-oriented system that responds to the medical needs of the injured or patients with acute and emergency illnesses outside of health care facilities until they are transferred to a medical center. This study aimed to explore pre-hospital emergency challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.Material and methodsThis study was conducted as a qualitative content analysis in Iran. Using the purposive sampling method, data were collected through in-depth individual interviews with 28 prehospital paramedic personnel from November 2020 to November 2021. Graneheim and Lundman's conventional content analysis methods were used to analyze the data and for the trustworthiness of the data, this study used Lincoln and Guba's recommendations.ResultsAfter multiple rounds of analyzing and summarizing the data and taking into consideration similarities and differences, four main categories and 10 subcategories were created based on the results of the data analysis and including (1) Culture and Community. (2) Service delivery (3) Human resources; (4) Medical supplies and equipment.ConclusionAccording to the findings of this study emergency medical system employees are suffering from a range of psychiatric problems as a result of a lack of equipment and job overload, which has a detrimental impact on the quality of pre-hospital emergency care. Therefore, emergency care senior management should develop comprehensive guidelines, provide more equipment and minimize professional challenges to improve the quality and safety of pre-hospital emergency care services.

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confidence: 99%