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dc.contributor.author | Chan, Tony | en |
dc.contributor.author | Braitberg, George | en |
dc.contributor.author | Elbaum, Danny | en |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, David McD | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-15T23:50:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-15T23:50:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-06-18 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Medical Journal of Australia; 186(12): 639-42 | en |
dc.identifier.govdoc | 17576181 | en |
dc.identifier.other | PUBMED | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/10397 | en |
dc.description.abstract | "First responders" are people trained in advanced first aid who can respond at the same time as, and often more quickly than, ambulance services to suspected medical emergencies. Hatzolah is a volunteer First Responder group, based on halakhic (Jewish legal) principles, in a localised area of metropolitan Melbourne with the highest density of Holocaust survivors outside Israel. Low numbers of "call-outs" to Victoria's Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) from this community suggested that many were reluctant to make contact with a "uniformed" external agency. Hatzolah is an autonomous organisation operating under adapted MAS clinical practice guidelines and clinical governance processes. Hatzolah responders undergo an 18-month MAS training course comprising first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the use of semiautomated defibrillators, and oxygen therapy. We describe the first 11 years (1995-2005) of the Hatzolah service. The number of patients attended to annually has risen steadily, peaking at 867 in 2005. The most frequent reasons for call-outs were falls (19.4%), chest pain (9.7%), or respiratory distress (7.6%). Hatzolah's median response times were 2 or 3 min for all cases. They attended 35 patients with cardiac arrest (median response time, 2 min), and arrived before the MAS to 29 call-outs (83%). Nineteen patients (54%) with cardiac arrest were resuscitated and transported from the scene alive. Among those transported, significantly more had a shockable cardiac rhythm (50% v 13%, P = 0.03). Five (14%) survived to hospital discharge. Hatzolah has evolved into an organisation providing a complementary service to the MAS. It serves as a model for the establishment of other metropolitan community First Responder groups. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject.other | Aged | en |
dc.subject.other | Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation | en |
dc.subject.other | Emergency Service, Hospital.utilization | en |
dc.subject.other | Female | en |
dc.subject.other | Health Services Accessibility | en |
dc.subject.other | Heart Arrest.epidemiology.therapy | en |
dc.subject.other | Humans | en |
dc.subject.other | Jews | en |
dc.subject.other | Male | en |
dc.subject.other | Victoria.epidemiology | en |
dc.title | Hatzolah emergency medical responder service: to save a life. | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | Medical Journal of Australia | en |
dc.identifier.affiliation | Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia | en |
dc.description.pages | 639-42 | en |
dc.relation.url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17576181 | en |
dc.type.austin | Journal Article | en |
local.name.researcher | Taylor, David McD | |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.fulltext | No Fulltext | - |
item.grantfulltext | none | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.openairetype | Journal Article | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Emergency | - |
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