Objective To map out and describe an earlier response by using firefighters as medical first
responders on while waiting for the ambulance and first incident person assignments …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe firefighters' experiences of first response
emergency care. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses an explorative descriptive …

Aim To increase survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA), great efforts are made to
improve the number of voluntary first responders (VFR). However, evidence of the potential …

Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of death, and survival
outcomes vary across countries and regions. To improve survival, the European …

Firefighters are more facing to stressful situation than many other occupations. The purpose
of this study was to investigate the way of firefighters' respond to occupational stress, and to …

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to estimate the effect of rapid intervention vehicles
(RIVs)'impact on fire department (FDs)'response time. Design/methodology/approach The …

In Aotearoa-New Zealand and perhaps in other countries, firefighters are increasingly
required to attend highly demanding and stressful nonfire incidents. This study used a …

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Disaster Resilience NEWS AND VIEWS 12 The benefits of sharing emergency response …

The overarching aim of this licentiate thesis is to increase knowledge about the implications
of working as a non-career firefighter in order to understand how challenges and …

The public sector and emergency response worldwide face budget constraints and lack of
resources while having to respond to an increasing number of emergenices. In this chapter …