Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting | De Vries et al. International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4 28 http content 4 1 28 o International Journal of Emergency Medicine a SpringerOpen Journal ORIGINAL RESEARCH Open Access A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting Shaheem De Vries Lee A Wallis and David Maritz Abstract Objective To determine whether the establishment of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal flying squad resulted in improved performance within the setting of a major metropolitan area. Design and Setting The Cape Town metropolitan service of the Emergency Medical Services was selected for a retrospective review of the transit times for the newly implemented Flying Squad programme. Data were imported from the Computer Aided Dispatch programme. Dispatch Response Mean Transit and Total Pre-hospital times relating to the obstetric and neonatal incidents was analysed for 2005 and 2008. Results There was a significant improvement between 2005 and 2008 in all incidents evaluated. Flying Squad dispatch performance improved from to of all incidents dispatched within 4 min p . Response time performance at the 15-min threshold did not demonstrate a statistically significant improvement p although the improvement in the 30-min performance category was statistically significant in both maternity and neonatal incidents. Maternity incidents displayed the greatest improvement with the 30-min performance increasing from to . The analysis of the mean transit times demonstrated that neonatal transfers displayed the longest status time in all but one of the categories. Even so the introduction of the Flying Squad programme resulted in a reduction in a total pre-hospital time from 177 to 128 min. Conclusion The introduction of the Flying Squad programme has resulted in significant improvement in the transit times of both neonatal and obstetric patients. In spite of
