Existing assessment pathways for acute chest pain are often resource-intensive, prolonged,
and expensive. In this review, the authors describe existing chest pain pathways and current …

Quick access to hospitals is essential for severely injured people during post-earthquake
emergency medical response. In addition to emergency medical vehicles, most injured …

Objective: Relatively little has been reported about the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on
emergency ambulance services. We describe the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

Ambulance offload delay (AOD) is a growing health care concern in Canada. It refers to the
delay in transferring an ambulance patient to a hospital emergency department (ED) due to …

Disaster management generally includes the post-disaster stage, which consists of the
actions taken in response to the disaster damages. These actions include the employment of …

In mass casualty incidents, patients need to be evacuated to nearby hospitals as soon as
possible, and a surge in demand for emergency medical services then occurs. It would result …

When ambulances' turnaround time (TT) in emergency departments is prolonged, it not only
affects the victim severely but also causes unavailability of resources in emergency medical …

Objective To assess whether ambulance offload time influences the risks of death or
ambulance re‐attendance within 30 days of initial emergency department (ED) …

When emergency departments (EDs) are crowded and cannot accept incoming ambulance
patients immediately, paramedics commonly continue to provide patient care until an ED …